Lipid Insights

Tim Levine is a Lecturer in Cell Biology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, where he has been since 2000. His main interest is the cell biological context of intracellular lipid traffic. In 1996 as a post-doc at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, he began studies on oxysterol binding protein homologues in the secretory pathway. His own lab focuses on the role in lipid traffic of intracellular membrane contact sites, where he has found many lipid transfer proteins to be targeted.

Originally Dr. Levine trained in medicine, and worked briefly as a histopathologist before entering science. For his PhD (1993), he studied endocytosis in antigen presenting cells with Prof Benny Chain, UCL, and then worked on mitotic disassembly of the Golgi apparatus in the lab of Dr Graham Warren at Cancer Research UK.

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