Previous Members of the Lab
Sorted by Joining Year
2000 @ UCL
Gordana Apic, Director, Cambridge Cell Networks and Director, Metisox Ltd
2001
Oliver Jardine, MRes in Bioinformatics at Birkbeck College: "Comparison of Small Molecule Metabolic Pathways in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Non-orthologous Displacements, Gene Fusions and Protein Interactions". Went on to become a doctor in the NHS.
Christine Vogel, MRes in Mathematical Modelling of Biological Complexity at University College London: "The Immunoglobulin Superfamily Repertoire in Drosophila melanogaster as Compared to Caenorhabditis elegans". Went to do a PhD with Teichmann/Chothia, then a postdoc with Ed Marcotte/Texas and is now a tenured full professor at NYU.
Madan Babu Mohan, PhD student: "Evolution of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks". Went on to do a postdoc at NCBI with Aravid, and then from October 2006: MRC Career Track Programme Leader, then Programme Leader and Senior Scientist at MRC-LMB
2002
Pedro Coutinho, visiting postdoctoral fellow from Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal
Mary Pacold, summer student from Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign funded by Trinity College Fellows' Research Fund
Sarah Kummerfeld, LMB Cambridge scholarship PhD student and short postdoc: "Towards understanding the protein universe: Genome-scale studies of evolution and gene regulation". Went on to do a postdoc with Stuart Kim at Stanford, then to Genentech/San Francisco, now CSO and professor at the Garvan Institute in Sydney/Australia.
Nicola Kerrison, MSc in Biochemistry at Cambridge University: "Conservation of Domain Geometry in Two-Domain Proteins"
2003
Nicola Kerrison, returned as LMB-funded summer student
Nick Luscombe, visiting postdoctoral fellow from Yale, LMB visitor, then group leader at the Crick Institute/UCL, followed by move to Okinawa.
Jung-Hoon Han, MRC studentship PhD student.
Jose Leal, MRC Career Development postdoctoral fellowship, from January 2006: group leader, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal.
2004
Andrew Deonarine, summer student from Univ. Toronto studentship.
Emmanuel Levy, PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and short postdoc funded by EMBO Young Investigator's grant and MRC fees-only studentship, then postdoc with Steve Michnick/Montreal and then group leader, Dept Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute. Now full professor at University of Geneva.
Rutger Hermsen, PhD student at AMOLF, Netherland, LMB visitor and now professor in Utrecht/NL.
Nuria Lopez-Bigas, sabbatical visitor from IRB Barcelona.
2005
Boris Adryan, EMBO postdoctoral fellow, subsequently MRC Career Development fellowship and then Royal Society University Research Fellowship group at Dept Genetics, Cambridge University. Then left academia to work in industry.
Derek Wilson, MRC postdoctoral scientist and programmer, currently works at Mars.
Subhajyoti De, LMB Cambridge PhD studentship, then postdoc with Franziska Michor at Harvard, now Assistant Professor at Rutgers/New Jersey.
Nuria Lopez-Bigas, EMBO short-term fellow from CRG, Barcelona. Professor in Barcelona.
Ernesto Perez-Rueda, EMBO short-term fellow from UNAM Cuernavaca, Mexico.
2006
Ian Birch-Machin, MRC research assistant
Chenyi Wu, MRC research assistant
Joerg Gsponer, MRC Special Training Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Biology, then Professor at UBC/Vancouver.
Richard Pollock, Part III Biochemistry student followed by summer studentship funded by Trinity fellows' research fund.
2007
Varodom Charoensawan, Completed PhD, now Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University
Jing Su, Completed PhD, now IGC Bioinformatics Core Manager, Edinburgh
2008
Daniel Hebenstreit, Austrian Postdoc fellowship, then MRC Career development fellowship at LMB, then faculty member at Warwick University.
2009
Tina Perica, LMB Cambridge PhD Scholarship, then Henry Wellcome Fellowship with Kortemme/UCSF, now professor at University of Zurich.
Joe Marsh, EMBO and HFSP Postdoctoral fellowships, then MRC and Edinburgh Chancellor's Fellowships, then full professor at MRC HGU/Edinburgh.
2010
Valentina Proserpio, Postdoctoral scientist employed on ERC Starting grant, now group leader at HUGEF/Turin.
2011
Melis Kayikci, Staff Scientist at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, now working in industry.
Liora Haim, Marie Curie and EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships, now at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute.
Bidesh Mahata, Research Group Leader, Dept of Pathology, University of Cambridge
Jhuma Pramanik, Research Assistant, now moved to position in Dept Pathology, Cambridge.
2012
Aleksandra (Ola) Kołodziejczyk, BBRSC/CASE PhD Studentship with Abcam plc, then postdoc with Eran Elinav/Weizmann Institute, now group leader in Warsaw/Poland.
Tomislav Ilicic, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute PhD Student, now consultant at Accenture.
2013
Tapio Lonnberg, Postdoctoral scientist employed on ERC Starting Grant, then ERC Consolidator Grant, now group leader at university in Turku/Finnland.
Mike Stubbington, Postdoctoral fellow funded by ERC starting grant then Senior Staff Scientist at WTSI. Then leading the Human Cell Atlas project team within Sanger, now CSO at CS Genetics.
Xiuwei Zhang, Postdoc and staff member in the group, now Professor at School of Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Valentine Svensson, EMBL-EBI PhD student, then postdoctoral scientist with Lior Pachter at Caltech, now at Tahoe/California.
Ricardo Miragaia, PhD student at EMBL-EBI/Sanger, then bioinformatics analyst at MedImmune, now Associate Director at AstraZeneca.
Kedar Natarajan, Danish-Institute of Advanced Study (D-IAS) Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB)
Xi Chen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology in SUSTech
Johan Henriksson, Group leader, Department of molecular biology, MIMS, Sweden
2014
Sougata Roy, EIPOD Postdoc fellow in the group with Anne-Claude Gavin, now Professor at Ashoka University, Delhi
Tzachi Hagai, EMBO and HFSP Postdoc fellow, now professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel
2015
Felipe Vieira Braga, Postdoc in the group, then Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at AMC Medical Research BV, then at Galapagos and Genmab
Gozde Kar, Postdoc fellow in the group, now Associate Director at AstraZeneca
Raghd Rostom, PhD student in the group, then Senior Associate at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and now Associate at Syncona
Tomas Pires de Carvalho Gomes, EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at D-BSSE / ETH Zurich and then postdoc in Lisbon
2016
Guy Emerton, Staff bioinformatician in the group
Aik Ooi, Visitor in group, then senior scientist at Fluidigm
Roser Vento-Tormo, EMBO and HFSP fellow, then Group leader at Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Zhichao Miau, Postdoc in the group, now Principal Investigator at Guangzhou Laboratory, China
Kylie James, Group leader at Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia
Lira Mamanova, Principal scientist, CS Genetics
2017
Hongbo Zhang, Group leader at Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Eirini Sofia Fasouli, Staff member in wetlab team, moved to Greece for PhD
Nathalie Reuter, Sabbatical visitor from University of Bergen, Norway
Mirjana Efremova, Group leader at Barts Cancer Institute, UK
Jongeun Park, EMBO postdoc fellow and EMBO Advanced Fellow, now Group leader at KAIST, Korea
Daniel Kunz, PhD student joint with Ben Simons, then Postdoc at EMBL-EBI with John Marioni, now at GSK
Kerstin Meyer, Senior then Principal Staff Scientist at Sanger, now Senior Director of Translational Research, GSK
2018
Genta Nagai, sabbatical visitor from Tokyo
Carlos Talavera-Lopez, Postdoc in the group joint with EBI, then Junior Professor at Julius-Maximilian-Universität-Würzburg, Germany, then director at GSK/Cellzome
Monika Litvinukova, visiting PhD student in the group, then Postdoctoral Fellow at the Molecular Ageing Lab, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Germany
Ni Huang, senior bioinformatician in the group, then moved to T Cell Therapeutics Company, UK
Rasa Elmentaite, PhD then postdoc in the group, now Co-Founder & Head of Genomics & Data Science at Ensocell, UK
2019
Frank Bradke, sabbatical visitor from DZNE, Bonn, Germany
Waradon Sungnak, postdoc in the group, now Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand
Cecilia Dominguez Conde, Postdoc in the group, now Group leader, Population & Medical Genomics programme, Human Technopole, Italy
Zhihan Xu, completed PhD, then moved to Hong Kong research position
Emma Dann, Joint PhD student with the Marioni group, now Post-doctoral fellow, Stanford University, USA
Peng He, postdoc in the group, now Assistant Professor University of California, USA
2020
Natsuhiko Kumasaka, staff member in group, then Team leader, Genetics Division, Medical Support Center of Japan Environment and Children’s Study, National Center for Child Health and Development, Japan
Alexander Steemers, staff member, PhD student at Utrecht University, Netherlands
Rik Lindeboom, postdoc in group, now Group leader, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands
Lu Yang, postdoc in group, then Senior bioinformatician - Lightcast Discovery, UK
Ruoyan Li, postdoc in group, now Assistant Professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Jan Patrick Pett, Marie Curie postdoc fellow, then staff member at CellGen Informations, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Sid Lawrence, Wellcome clinical PhD student, now Clinical Lecturer in Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals
2021
Raquel Bartolomé Casado, Postdoctoral Researcher, now team leader at Oslo, Norway
Dinithi Sumanaweera, Marie Curie Postdoc then Accelerate Fellow, now Investigator in the Data Analytics Platform Team, GSK
2022
Ana Raquel Maceiras, postdoc in the group, now Postdoctoral Researcher, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal
2023
Daniel Chen, Masters student twice, moving to MD-PhD at UCLA
2024
Nadav Yayon, ESPOD fellow with the Marioni group, now Head of Spatial Biology in the Wellcome Discovery Research Platform for Tissue Scale Biology - CSCI