Venizelos Papayannopoulos

Veni did his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University, working with Ken Irvine on the mechanisms that establish tissue barriers during Drosophila development.

He then moved to San Francisco to pursue a PhD with Wendell Lim at the University of California San Francisco, studying protein-lipid signaling in the regulation of actin dynamics.

For his post-doctoral work he joined the lab of Arturo Zychlinsky in Berlin to investigate the molecular mechanisms driving the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps before becoming a group leader at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research and later the Francis Crick Institute in 2012.