Ellie completed her MSci in Natural Sciences with International Study at the University of Exeter, having spent a semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Her masters project was centred on the entrance pathway of antibiotics into E.coli through the outer membrane porin F (OmpF) using HDX and complimentary electrophysiology techniques. Ellie is now at Lincoln College, studying for a DPhil with the Benesch Group. Her DPhil project focusses on cardiac mechanosensitive proteins and mapping the regions that extend under force using hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry, she also looks at how this extension is modified by the binding of small heat shock proteins.