Alma Wu- Alma Wu previously worked in the group as a postdoctoral researcher in synthetic biology. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2023, focusing on antibiotic resistance plasmids. Her work in bakshi lab group focused on engineering stable genetic circuits on both plasmids and chromosomes for therapeutic applications (2025).

Charlie Wedd- Charlie Wedd completed his PhD in 2025  and was funded by EPSRC Sensor CDT programme. His research focused on characterising the timing and variability of bacteriophage infection cycles at the single-cell level, using high-throughput time-lapse microscopy. His work contributed to a better understanding of phage–bacteria interactions and the dynamics of infection in individual cells (2025). 

Georgeos Hardo- Georgios received his PhD in Biological Sciences, specialising in Systems and Synthetic Biology, in 2024. His doctoral research was funded by the BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership programme. During his PhD, he developed image analysis tools for high-throughput single-cell microscopy and applied these methods to investigate bacterial dormancy and antibiotic persistence. Georgios is now an Assistant Professor at UAE University, where he works in quantitative single-cell microbiology (2025). 

Massimo Zabernardi- Massimo Zambernardi completed an MEng project and UROP placement in the group. His work focused on video-object segmentation and lineage reconstruction of bacteria growing in microfluidic devices, with the aim of supporting the analysis of physiological heterogeneity at the single-cell level (2024).

James Morgan-James was a research assistant, who was developing a modular, open-source bioreactor. He aimed it at conducting long-term evolution experiments involving microbes (2023)

Robbie Hodgeon - MEng project student, Limits of spatial resolution in high-througput single-cell imaging of bacteria (2022)

Ruizhe Li - MEng project student, Limits of temporal resolution in high-througput single-cell imaging of bacteria (2022)

James Morgan - MEng project student, Engineering a fossil-collection system for automated record-keeping of evolving mcirobial cultures (2022)

Yu an Han - MEng project student, Adaptive image segmentation using pseudolabelling (2022)

Nandini Praveenkumar - Mini project from Photonics CDT, designing Inline optical sensors for monitoring cell density

Eva Chatry - MPhil Biotechnology student, Modelling effects of protein maturation on reporter signal dynamcis (2021)

Ben Wilson - MEng project student, Adapting widefield microscopy for imaging microbial biofilms (2021)

Dustin Baek - MEng project student, Computer vision approaches for image based barcode recognition (2021)

Ishaan Vadgama - MEng project student, Quantifying morphological dynamics of bacteria in microfluidic devices (2021)

Ali Ahmed - MEng project student, Single-cell analysis of fitness costs of antibitoic resistance (2021)

Jake Gozdziewski - MPhil Biotechnology student, Microscopic inspection of microbial ageing (2020)

Rui Li - MEng project student, Deep-learning approaches for image processing (2020)

Roman Streslov - MEng project student, Computational fluid dynamics for microfluidics design optimisation (2020)

Francis Treherne Pollock - MEng project student, Analysing impacts of point-spread function on microscope images (2020)

Jorge Garcia Condado - MEng project student, Deep-learning for morphological analysis of bacterial cells (2019)

Soham Garg - MEng project student, Engineering a miniature microbial bioreactor (2019)

Maximilian Noka - MEng project student, A virtual microscopy platform to generate syntehtic images to train machine-learning image segmentation models (2019)