DrManuja Kaluarachchi Soden

I have been employed as a Project Manager/Postdoctoral Reseacher for Metabometrix Ltd since December 2012 to work on the Combi-bio EC funded project. I graduated from Kings College London in 2003 with a BSc Biomedical Science and was awarded my PhD Medical Science from Imperial College London in 2007. My background and work experience encompasses Molecular Biology Techniques and Molecular Mechanisms of disease. I have completed three postdoctoral positions, in 2008 at Imperial College London, 2009-2012 at The Middlesex University and in 2012 at Imperial College London. It is through my post-doctoral positions that I specialised in Mass Spectrometry and gained and insight in to the NMR and MS based Metabonomics.
Key publication:
Ackroyd MR, Whitmore C, Prior S, Kaluarachchi M, Nikolic M, Mayer U, Muntoni F, Brown SC; 2011; Fukutin-related protein alters the deposition of laminin in the eye and brain; Journal of Neuroscience.
Ackroyd MR, Skordis L, Kaluarachchi M, Godwin J, Prior S, Fidanboylu M, Piercy RJ, Muntoni F, Brown SC; 2009; Reduced expression of fukutin related protein in mice results in a model for fukutin related protein associated muscular dystrophies; Brain.
Muntoni F, Brockington M, Godfrey C, Ackroyd M, Robb S, Manzur A, Kinali M, Mercuri E, Kaluarachchi M, Feng L, Jimenez-Mallebrera C, Clement E, Torelli S, Sewry CA, Brown SC; 2007; Muscular dystrophies due to defective glycosylation of dystroglycan; Acta Myol.
Motsch I, Kaluarachchi M, Emerson LJ, Brown CA, Brown SC, Dabauvalle MC, Ellis JA; 2005; Lamins A and C are differentially dysfunctional in autosomal dominant Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy; European Journal of Cell Biology.