Sarah Teichmann

Sarah Teichmann
Born	Sarah Amalia Teichmann (1975-04-15) April 15, 1975 Karlsruhe, Germany
Nationality	German American British
Fields	Genomics Biophysics Immunology Bioinformatics
Institutions	Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) University College London (UCL) Cavendish Laboratory EMBL-EBI
Alma mater	European School, Karlsruhe University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Thesis	Genome evolution: analysing proteomes with new methods (1999)
Doctoral advisor	Cyrus Chothia
Doctoral students	Madan Babu Varodom Charoensawan Subhajyoti De Andrew Deonarine Jung-Hoon Han Sarah Kummerfeld Emmanuel Levy Tina Perica Jing Su Tomislav Ilicic Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk Ricardo Miragaia Tomas Pires de Carvalho Gomes Raghd Rostom Valentine Svensson
Other notable students	(postdocs) Jose Pereira-Leal Boris Adryan Jörg Gsponer Daniel Hebenstreit Tzachi Hagai Johan Henriksson Gozde Kar Tapio Lonnberg Bidesh Mahata Kedar Natarajan Frederik Otzen Bagger Jhuma Pramanik Valentina Proserpio Sougata Roy Felip Vieira Braga
Influences	Cyrus Chothia Janet Thornton Carol V. Robinson Michael Levitt Veronica van Heyningen
Notable awards	EMBO Gold Medal (2015) Colworth Medal (2010) Lister Prize (2011) EMBO member (2012) Crick Lecture (2012) Michael and Kate Bárány Award (2015) FMedSci (2015)
Children	Two daughters
Website www.teichlab.org www.sanger.ac.uk/people/directory/teichmann-sarah

Sarah Amalia Teichmann (born 1975) FMedSci is the Head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and a visiting research group leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She is also a Director of Research (equivalent to Professor) in the Cavendish Laboratory, at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Research Fellow-Elect at Churchill College, Cambridge.

Education

Teichmann was educated at the European School, Karlsruhe in Germany from 1981 to 1993 where she completed the European Baccalaureate in 1993. Teichmann went on to study Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) at Trinity College, Cambridge and was awarded a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996. In 1999, she completed her PhD supervised by Cyrus Chothia at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) on genome evolution.

Career

Following her PhD, Teichmann did postdoctoral research supervised by Janet Thornton at University College London and funded by the Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research. From 2001-2012, she was a Medical Research Council (MRC) Programme Leader, studying patterns in protein interactions and transcriptional regulatory networks.

In 2013 Teichmann was appointed a joint position at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). From 2005 to 2015 she was a teaching fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Since 2016 Teichmann has served as the head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and a visiting research group leader at the EBI.

Research

Teichmann's research investigates gene expression and protein complex assembly using both wet laboratory and computational biology techniques. In particular her research group:

...seeks to elucidate the principles of protein structure evolution, higher order protein structure and protein folding, and the principles underlying protein complex formation and organization. We have a longstanding interest in understanding gene expression regulation, and in our wetlab at the Sanger Institute use mouse T helper cells as a model of cell differentiation.

Teichmann's research has been funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Wellcome Trust, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).

As of 2015 Teichmann has supervised eight PhD students to completion and several postdoctoral researchers who have gone on to become Principal Investigators (PIs).

Awards and honours

Teichmann has won a number of awards. In 2010, she was awarded Colworth Medal from the Biochemical Society. In 2012, Teichman was awarded the Francis Crick Medal and Lecture, membership of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Lister Prize from the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. In 2015 she was awarded the Michael and Kate Bárány Award for young investigators by the Biophysical Society and the EMBO Gold Medal. Teichmann was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2015. Her citation on election reads:

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Teichmann has also been an activist for women's careers in science through enabling scientists in families to advance their careers while working part-time. She chaired a "Sex in Science" debate at the Wellcome Trust on balancing family life with working in research.

Personal life

Teichmann has two daughters. Teichmann is the co-author of the children's language education novel "Teenage Detectives", which she wrote as a teenager together with her mother Dr. Virginia Teichmann, an English-language university lecturer in Karlsruhe.