Sharon Tooze 2019 Hunter Cell Biology Meeting

Sharon Tooze

Sharon A. Tooze has a long-standing interest in molecular cell biology, starting with her PhD work at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Her work at EMBL during her PhD and post-doc helped define the current view of how post-Golgi vesicular pathways are initiated. Sharon maintained her interest in the biogenesis of organelles when she moved to the London Research Institute (now the Francis Crick Institute), and in 2006 began work on the biogenesis of autophagosomes. Since then, at the Francis Crick Institute, she has contributed to the current knowledge of the function of the mammalian autophagy (ATG) proteins she first identified, including ULK1/2, ATG9A/B, and WIPI2, and non-ATG trafficking proteins regulating autophagosome formation and an understanding of the initiation of autophagy at the molecular level. Sharon was elected to EMBO in 2010, AcademiaNet Fellow 2014, Fellow of the Academy of Medicine 2018, European Academy of Sciences 2020, and to the Academia Europaea in 2024.