Former Lab Members

 

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Senior Post-doc

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Yael Costa

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Yael studied Nanog mediated mechanisms (2009-2022). Yael was funded by her own BBSRC project grant. To see Yael's work click here.

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Post-docs​

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Mingyue Guo

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Mingyue was a postdoc in our lab for 2 years (2021-2023). In 2023 Mingyue moved to West Lake University. To view Mingyue's work click here.

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Chibeza Agley

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Chibeza was a member of both the Silva and the Chalut labs between October 2013 and June 2017. In July 2017 he started full time in the company he had previously founded, CamBioScience. To learn more about Chibeza click here.

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PhD Students

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Lawrence Bates

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Lawrence was a MRC funded PhD student. In 2022 Lawrence joined Professor Nichols's lab at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh as postdoctoral researcher. To view Lawrence's work click ​here.

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Sergey Gladkov (Siarhei Hladkou)

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Sergey was a Darwin Trust of Edinburgh funded PhD student (2019). Sergey moved to Sweden to become a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University.

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Elsa Sousa

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Elsa was a PhD student enrolled in the Graduate Program in the Areas of Basic and Applied Biology (GABBA) from the University of Porto, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal).​ In 2019 Elsa started a career in industry. To view Elsa's work click ​here.

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Hannah Stuart

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Hannah was a MRC funded PhD student. Hannah was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie and Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowships (2019) when moving to Professors Elly Tanaka's lab and Nicola Elvassore's lab (joint post-doc) at the Institute of Molecular Pathology (Vienna/Austria) and at University College London respectively. To view Hannah's work click ​here.

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Kathryn Tremble

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Katie was a Clinical School PhD program student. After PhD (2017) Katie went back to Medical School to complete her medical degree. To see Katies's work click here.

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Aliaksandra Radzisheuskaya​

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Alex was a Darwin Trust of Edinburgh funded PhD student. Alex was awarded the prestigious EMBO and Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowships when moving to Prof Kristian Helin’s lab at the Sloan Kettering Institute (USA) in 2014.  Alex is now a principal Investigator at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. To see Alex's work click here.

 

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Moyra Lawrence​​​

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Moyra was a Wellcome Trust-Stem Cell PhD Programme student. She moved to Dr Robert Schneider's laboratory in Strasbourg as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in 2014. To view Moyra's work click ​​​here.

 

 

Rodrigo Santos

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Rodrigo was a PhD student enrolled in the PhD program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (PDBEB) from the University of Coimbra, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal).​ In 2014 Rodrigo started a career in Industry. To learn more about Rodrigo click ​here.

 

 

​Anouk van Oosten

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Anouk was a BBSRC funded PhD student. Anouk moved (2012) to the Netherlands to become a Clinical Research Associate. To view Anouk's work click here.

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Thorold Theunissen

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Thor was a Wellcome Trust-Stem Cell PhD Programme student. Thor was awarded the prestigious Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowship (2012) when moving to Professor Rudolf Jaenisch lab at the Whitehead Institute, MIT, US. Thor is now a Principal Investigator at Washington University, US. To view Thor's work click here.

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Ornella Barrandon

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Ornella was a PhD student in the Silva Lab, co-supervised with Professor Austin Smith. In 2011 Ornella moved to Professor Douglas Melton lab, Harvard, USA for post-doc work. To see Ornella's work click here.

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Master's Students​

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Aaron Sandoval

 

Aaron was a Marshall Scholarship Master's student. To view Aaron's work click here.

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Tim Lohoff

 

Tim was an Erasmus funded Master's student. In 2016 Tim joined the Wellcome Trust - Stem Cell PhD Programme. To view Tim's work click ​here.

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Mariana Alves

 

Mariana was an Erasmus funded Master's student. In 2017 Mariana joined Dr. Justin Crocker's lab at the EMBL in Heidelberg as a PhD student. To view Mariana's work click ​here.

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Research Assistants

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Kexin Wang

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Kexin was a research assistant in our Lab (2022-2023).  She moved in 2023 to Hangzhou to start a new position at West Lake University.

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Imogen Stockwell

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Imogen was a Research Assistant working with Yael and Lawrence (2019-2020). In October 2020 Imogen started MPhil studies in Biological Science at the Physiology, Development and Neuroscience department at the University of Cambridge.

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Daniel Yamamoto

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Daniel was a Research Assistant working with Lawrence (2019-2020). In 2020 he joined the Wellcome Trust-Stem Cell PhD Programme at the University of Cambridge.

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​Charlotte Handford

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Charlotte was a Research Assistant working with Yael (2014-2017). After three years she joined the lab of Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz to undertake PhD studies. To view Charlotte's work click ​here.

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Other Research Assistants (less than 6 months) 

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TY So                           (2014)                       Hongkonger             

Yuanshen Zhao             (2023)                       Chinese       

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Lab Managers/Personal Assistants

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Tan Xiao                    October 2020- December 2021      Chinese

Huang Li                    April 2022-July 2022                    Chinese​​

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Stem Cell - Wellcome Trust PhD Rotation Students​

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Andrew Malcom            October-December 2017              Scottish

Sarah Förster                April-June 2014                         German

Loukia Yiangou             January-March 2014                   Cypriot

Anna Osnato                October-December 2013              Italian

Elena Itskovich             January-March 2013                    Israeli

Moritz Matthey             October-December 2012             German

Anzy Miller                   April-June 2012                         English

Vicki Moignard              April-June 2011                         English

Moyra Lawrence           January-March 2011                    Irish

Ana Leal                      October-December 2010             Mexican

Robert Fordham           October-December 2009            English

Thorold Theunissen       April-June 2008                        Dutch​​​​

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Undergraduate Students

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Xiner He                       July-August 2019                     Chinese

Adam Boxall                  January-March 2019                 English

Imogen Stockwell          June-July 2018                        Australian

Anastasiya Malyshava     May-July 2018                         Belarusian

Bryce Lim                     January-March 2018                 Singaporean

Carolyn Rodgers            January-March 2017                 English

Katsiaryna Maskalenka   June-July 2016                        Belarusian

Aran Shaunak               June-July 2015                         English

Joachim Hanna             January-March 2016                 Swiss

Petros Fessas               January-March 2016                 Greek 

Rebecca Lloyd               January-March 2015                 English

Alicia Caunter               January-March 2015                  English

Saeed Kayhanian          July-August 2014                      Welsh

Mariana Alves               July-August 2014                     Portuguese

Jia Yi Fong                   January-March 2014                  Singaporean

James Patterson           January-March 2013                  English

Hannah Stuart              January-March 2012                  English

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