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Postgraduate School of Life Sciences

 

The Reproduction, Development & Lifelong Health (including Physiology) Research Theme includes the following sub-groups:

  • Developmental Biology
  • Tissue Regeneration & Stem Cells
  • Reproduction & Fetal Development
  • Nervous System Development & Cognition
  • Tissue Morphogenesis & Mechanobiology
  • Model Organisms
  • Epigenetics & Chromatin Remodelling
  • Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Imaging & Microscopy Techniques
  • Cell Fate Decision & Tissue Patterning
  • Cancer Biology
  • Cell biology

 

Principal Investigators in this theme:

Name: Dr Richard Adams
Topic: Quantitative analysis of morphogenesis using microscopy
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: rja46@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/adams/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Julie Ahringer
Topic: Regulation of chromatin structure and function in C. elegans
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: ja219@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/ahringer
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Catherine Aiken
Topic: metabolism in pregnancy reproductive aging developmental programming
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Email: cema2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-catherine-aiken/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Maria Alcolea
Topic: Epithelial Cell Fate and Plasticity
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: mpa28@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/alcolea
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Irving Aye
Topic: Metabolic control of epigenetics during early placental development
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Women's Health
Department: Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Email: ia319@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/research/dr-irving-ayes-group/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Clare Baker
Topic: Development and evolution of the vertebrate electrosensory lateral line system
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Physiology ,Development and Neuroscience
Email: cvhb1@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/clare-baker
Sorry no students can be taken this year 
Name: Dr Srinjan Basu
Topic: Towards a single-molecule perspective of early mammalian development
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology, Devlopment and Neuroscience, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: sb451@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/basu
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Howard Baylis
Topic: Intracellular signalling mechanisms regulating the development and physiology of C. elegans
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: hab28@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/baylis
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sumru Bayin
Topic: Neural stem cell biology during development and repair
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Gurdon Institute, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: nsb44@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.bayinlab.com
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Omer Bayraktar
Topic: Cellular genetics
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: ob5@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/bayraktar-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kathryn Beardsall
Topic: Perinatal metabolism: impact on short term care and long term health
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Paediatrics
Email: kb274@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://paediatrics.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/people/senior-academic-sta...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sam Behjati
Topic: Cancer genomics and single cell transcriptomics
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: sb31@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/behjati-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Elia Benito Gutierrez
Topic: Evo-Devo
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Zoology
Email: eb647
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/elia-benito-gutierrez
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Barbara Blacklaws
Topic: Pathogenesis of and immunity to virus infections
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Veterinary Medicine
Email: bab2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/bab2@cam.ac.uk/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Topic: Development of the brain, behaviour and mental health in human adolescence
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Psychology
Email: sjblakemore@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-sarah-jayne-blakemore
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Thorsten Boroviak
Topic: Implantation germ cell specification and the continuum of pluripotent states in primate embryogenesis
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: teb45@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/thorsten-bovoriak/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Cecilia Brassett
Topic: Clinically applied anatomical research
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: cb457@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/cecilia-brassett
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Sarah Bray
Topic: From stem cells to tissues: Notch regulatory dynamics in development and disease
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: sjb32@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/sarah-bray
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Clare Buckley
Topic: Our lab uses optogenetics and live confocal imaging of the zebrafish neural tube and mouse embryonic stem cells to uncover the mechanisms that coordinate polarisation and morphogenesis of epithelial tubes during development.
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ceb85@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/clare-buckley
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Jose Casal-Jimenez
Topic: Planar cell polarity in development and growth
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: jec85@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/jose-casal
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor D Stephen Charnock-Jones
Topic: Placental development high throughput sequencing genomics regulation of endothelial cell function in health and disease translational research
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health
Department: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Email: dscj1@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/professor-steve-charnock-...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Lucy Cheke
Topic: Episodic memory and episodic foresight
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Psychology
Email: lgc23@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/directory/lucy-cheke
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Bill Colledge
Topic: Mammalian reproductive physiology using transgenic mice
Themes: Reproduction
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: whc23@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/bill-colledge
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Francesco Colucci
Topic: Immunology of reproduction, Infections, Cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity, Women's Health
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Email: fc287@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-francesco-colucci/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Miguel Constancia
Topic: Epigenetics in health and disease
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: jmasmc2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/miguel-co...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Anne Corcoran
Topic: Epigenetic and chromatin remodeling mechanisms that regulate immunoglobulin gene rearrangement (VDJ recombination) in B lymphocytes in particular non-coding RNA transcription and nuclear organization
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: anne.corcoran@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/nuclear-dynamics/anne-corcoran
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Gerry Crossan
Topic: Maintenance of genome stability in the germline
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: gcrossan@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/gerry-crossan/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ana Cvejic
Topic: Developmental Haematopoiesis
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: as889@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-ana-cvejic/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Paul Dupree
Topic: plant cell walls, dietary fibre, glycobiology, enzymology
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Biochemistry
Email: pd101@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/dupree
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Robbie Duschinsky
Topic: child and family mental health, the integration of health and social care for children and families, and the use of qualitative methods within primary care research
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour,
Department: Public Health and Primary Care
Email: rd522@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/pcu-group/pcu-senior-academic-staff/ro...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
Topic: Mammalian developmental genetics and epigenetics
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: afsmith@gen.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/anne-ferguson-smith
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr David Fernandez-Antoran
Topic: Cell competition and radiation biology
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: The Gurdon Institute
Email: df336@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/fernandez-antoran
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alison Forhead
Topic: Endocrine control of fetal development and maturation
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ajf1005@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/forhead/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Abigail Fowden
Topic: Fetal and placental physiology
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: alf1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/abigail-fowden
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Kristian Franze
Topic: Using biophysical and cell biological approaches to understand the influence of physical cues on the functioning of the nervous system
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: kf284@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/franze/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jenny Gallop
Topic: Dynamics and regulation of filopodia
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Biochemistry (Gurdon Institute)
Email: jlg38@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.gallop.group
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Susan Golombok
Topic: New family forms; parent-child relationships
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Women's Health
Department: Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research)
Email: seg42@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cfr.cam.ac.uk/directory/SusanGolombok
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Bertie Gottgens
Topic: Blood development, blood stem cells, leukaemia
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: bg200@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/gottgens
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Tony Green
Topic: Haematopoietic stem cells/leukemia
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: arg1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/green
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Sir John Gurdon
Topic: Nuclear reprogramming through oocytes
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Zoology (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: j.gurdon@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/gurdon
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Professor Greg Hannon
Topic: Biological functions and mode of actions of non-coding RNAs in normal development and cancer with particular focus on technology development
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Greg.Hannon@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/hannon-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Brian Hendrich
Topic: Transcriptional control of stem cell fate
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells, Women's Health
Department: Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: bdh24@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/hendrich
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Allan Herbison
Topic: Neuroendocrinology
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Women's Health
Department: PDN
Email: aeh36@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/allan-herbison
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Melissa Hines
Topic: Gonadal hormone and socialization influences on human brain and behaviour across the lifespan
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Women's Health
Department: Psychology
Email: mh504@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/mh504@cam.ac.uk
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Nicola Holdstock
Topic: Neonatal medicine and physiology
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: nbh10@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/nbh10@cam.ac.uk/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Roman Hovorka
Topic: Relationship between insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion. Longitudinal analysis of metabolic disturbances in Type 2 diabetes. Artificial pancreas
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Paediatrics (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: rh347@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/Staff/PI/Hovroka/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Susan Imrie
Topic: Family functioning in new family forms with a focus on parent-child relationship quality child development and children’s perceptions of their families
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Psychology
Email: si275@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Mark Johnson
Topic: Typical at-risk and atypical functional brain development in human infants and toddlers using a variety of different brain imaging cognitive behavioural genetic and computational modelling techniques
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Psychology
Email: mj492@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-mark-johnson
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Peter Jones
Topic: Epidemiology etiology and developmental dimensions of psychiatric disorders; schizophrenia and the psychoses
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Psychiatry
Email: pbj21@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pbj21
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Phil Jones
Topic: Stem Cells and Cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: phj20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/directory/p-jones
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Henrik Jönsson
Topic: Development of live imaging techniques and Computational Morphodynamics models at the cellular level.
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology,
Department: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: henrik.jonsson@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/directory/jonsson-henrik
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir
Topic: Myelin plasticity and regeneration
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: rk385@cam.ac.u
Website: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/directory/jonsson-henrik
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira
Topic: Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Germline Stem Cell Biology
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Genetics / Physiology,
Email: felipe.karam-teixeira@gen.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://karamteixeira.wixsite.com/website
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Walid Khaled
Topic: Tumour initiation and ageing
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Pharmacology - Stem cell Institute Email: wtk22@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.wtklab.com
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Golnar Kolahgar
Topic: Extrinsic regulation of intestinal proliferation and gut maintenance in Drosophila
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: gk262@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/golnar-kolahgar
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mark Kotter
Topic: Specification and differentiation of neural stem / precursor cells
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Wellcome Trust and MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: mrk25@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/researchers/principal-investigators/mkotter
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Heike Laman
Topic: Ubiquitin ligases, cancer, Parkinson's disease, proteostasis, mitochondria, cell cycle
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Pathology
Email: hl316@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/heike-laman
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Matthias Landgraf
Topic: Nervous system development and plasticity, with focus on critical periods and metabolic byproducts as instructive signals, such as reactive oxygen species.
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: ml10006@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/cell-and-developmental-biology/neural...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Delphine Larrieu
Topic: Nuclear envelope dysfunction in aging and premature aging syndromes
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Pharmacology
Email: dl437@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.larrieulab.com/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Elisa Laurenti
Topic: Human Haematopoietic Stem Cells Biology in Health and Disease
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: el422@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/researchers/principal-investigators/elisa...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Victoria Leong
Topic: Parent-infant social interactions, neural synchrony, social learning
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour,
Department: Department of Pediatrics
Email: vvec2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.baby-linc.psychol.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr James Locke
Topic: Plant and microbial systems biology
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Department of Plant Sciences (Sainsbury Laboratory)
Email: james.locke@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/locke-james
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Hansong Ma
Topic: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: h.ma@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/ma
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Marioni
Topic: Developing computational tools to handle big data - using single cell genomics to study cell fate and early development
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: John.Marioni@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/marioni-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Inigo Martincorena
Topic: Somatic evolution
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: im3@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/martincorena-group
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Andrew McCaskie
Topic: Trauma and orthopaedics research
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Surgery (Division of Trauma and Orthopaedic Research)
Email: awm41@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.orthopaedics.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-andrew-w-mccaskie/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kate McDole
Topic: Morphogenesis of the early mammalian embryo
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: kmcdole@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/kate-mcdole/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Ashley Moffett
Topic: NK cells pregnancy trophoblast HLA
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity, Women's Health
Department: Department of Pathology (Immunology Division)
Email: am485@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/ashley-moffett
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Edwige Moyroud
Topic: Genetics, Development, Evolution, Plant biology, Evo-Devo, Flower development, Molecular Biology, Imaging, Modeling, Pattern formation, Cell differentiation, Pollinator behaviour
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: The Sainsbury Laboratory and Department of Genetics
Email: em500@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-edwige-moyroud
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Leila Muresan
Topic: Microscopy image analysis
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: PDN
Email: lam94@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/muresan
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Andrew Murray
Topic: Mitochondrial physiology in health and disease
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ajm267@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-murray
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Matthew Murray
Topic: Investigating genomic and non-coding RNA abnormalties in cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: mjm16@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/matthew-murray
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jyoti Nangalia
Topic: Clonal Evolution, Cancer and Ageing
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: jn218@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/nangalia
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Kathy Niakan
Topic: Early human development
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: kkn21@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/niakan
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ken Ong
Topic: Childhood obesity, growth and development, and relationships to adult metabolic disease
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit / Department of Paediatrics
Email: ken.ong@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/ken-ong/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Stephen O'Rahilly
Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/hod/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Susan Ozanne
Topic: Early life programming of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: seo10@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/susan-oza...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Roger Pedersen
Topic: Stem cell biology and regenerative medicine (developmental biology)
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health
Department: Department of Surgery (Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research)
Email: ralp2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/researchers/principal-investigators/rpede...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Luca Pellegrini
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication and recombination
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Biochemistry
Email: lp212@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/pellegrini.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Perry
Topic: Using human genetic approaches to understand biological mechanisms influencing reproductive ageing and metabolic health
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Molecules and Cells, Women's Health
Department: Institute of Metabolic Science
Email: john.perry@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/john-perry/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Anna Philpott
Topic: developmental biology, stem cell biology, cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: ap113@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/philpott
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Emma Rawlins
Topic: Stem and progenitor cells in the mammalian lung
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: elr21@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/rawlins
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Teresa Rayon
Topic: Comparative Stem Cell Dynamics lab
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: teresa.rayon@babraham.ac.uk
Website: https://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/epigenetics/teresa-rayon
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor David Rowitch
Topic: Glial Cells and Response to Injury
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Paediatrics
Email: dhr25@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/rowitch
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Peter Rugg-Gunn
Topic: Human developmental epigenetics
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: peter.rugg-gunn@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/epigenetics/peter-rugg-gunn
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Kourosh Saeb-Parsy
Topic: Transplantation, Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Immunotherapy
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Surgery
Email: ks10014@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.saeb-parsy.group.cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Benedicte Sanson
Topic: We use genetics live confocal imaging computational analysis of cell behaviours and mathematical modeling to understand the morphogenesis of epithelia in developing Drosophila embryos
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: bs251@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/benedicte-sanson
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
Topic: Placental development and function and its relevance for pregnancy success and life-long health
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ans48@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/amanda-sferruzzi-perri
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Marta Shahbazi
Topic: Pluripotency in embryogenesis and regeneration
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: mshahbazi@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/marta-shahbazi/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Sharkey
Topic:
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: as168@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.repro.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-andrew-sharkey
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Benjamin Simons
Topic: Developmental biology of epithelial tissues and cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Gurdon Institute, Stem Institute and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Email: bds10@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bds10/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Daniel St Johnston
Topic: Cell polarity in development and cancer
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: d.stjohnston@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/stjohnston
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mekayla Storer
Topic: Regeneration, Stem Cells and Limb Regeneration
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ms2786@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/storer
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Dénes Szücs
Topic: Mathematical cognition and development, mathematics anxiety, meta-science, reseach replicability
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Psychology
Email: ds377@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/denes-szucs
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Richard Tyser
Topic: Heart Development
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: rt593@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/dr-richard-tyser
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis
Topic: RNA modifications in stem cell homeostasis
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: kt404@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-konstantinos-tzelepis/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Mathew Van de Pette
Topic: Epigenetics. Toxicology. Developmental Programming. Pregnancy
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: MRC Toxicology Unit
Email: mv489@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Jelle van den Ameele
Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial disease, chromatin regulation during brain development
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour,
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/van-den-ameele-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Roser Vento-Tormo
Topic: Celluar genetics
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Women's Health
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: rv4@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://ventolab.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Erica Watson
Topic: Epigenetic mechanism of folate metabolism during development
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Women's Health,
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: edw23@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/watson-erica
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Timothy Weil
Topic: The cellular mechanisms underpinning the spatiotemporal coordination of the oocyte-to-embryo transition/ Testing the in vivo function of biomolecular condensates
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: tw419@cam.ac.uk
Website: WeilLabCambridge.com

Applications from potential students are welcome

Name: Dr Catherine Wilson
Topic: Cardiovascular cell signalling
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: chw39@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Douglas Winton
Topic: Intestinal biology colon cancer stem cell biology
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Doug.Winton@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/winton-group
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Fengzhu Xiong
Topic: Developmental morphogenesis, cell dynamics, tissue mechanics
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Gurdon Institute, Depart of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: fx220@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/people/fengzhu-xiong/
Applications from potential students are welcome

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