Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
The Functional & Evolutionary Genomics Research Theme includes the following sub-groups:
- Molecular Biology, Genetics and Gene Expression
- Cancer Genetics and Genomics
- Medical Genomics, Pathology and Disease
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Epigenetics and Chromatin Remodelling
- Cell Biology, Structure and Function
- Microbiology, Bacterial Evolution and Immunology
- Plant Biology and Agriculture
- Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research
- Ecology and Evolution
How to find a research supervisor
Research supervisors are either staff members of the University, or based in one of the research units or institutions associated with the University.
Supervisors are in high demand and may not be able to respond to your enquiry immediately, so please be patient. Some may already be supervising the maximum number of PhD students they can, and won’t be able to take on any new students.
Browse potential research supervisors:
accepting applications from prospective postgraduate students
accepting applications from summer students
Supervisors accepting applications from prospective Postgraduate Students:
Dr David Adams
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Experimental cancer genetics
Email: da1@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Julie Ahringer
Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Topic: Regulation of chromatin structure and function in C. elegans
Email: ja219@cam.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Aitken
MRC Toxicology Unit
Topic: Genomic pathology; Cancer evolution; Image analysis
Email: sa696@cam.ac.uk
Dr Alexandre Almeida
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: High-resolution and large-scale approaches to investigate the function and diversity of the human microbiome in health and disease
Email: aa2369@cam.ac.uk
Professor Bill Amos
Department of Zoology
Topic: Evolutionary genetics
Email: w.amos@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Dr Carl Anderson
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Genomics of inflammation and immunity
Email: ca3@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Margaret Ashcroft
Medicine
Topic: Biosciences (Molecular Cell Biology)
Email: m.ashcroft@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr William Astle
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistical methods with applications in genetics, genomics and haematology
Email: wja24@cam.ac.uk
Dr Madan Babu
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Systems biology regulatory genomics intrinsically disordered proteins biological networks GPCR signalling gene regulation and gene expression noise
Email: madanm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Professor Kate Baker
Genetics
Topic: Genomics epidemiology of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
Email: kb827@cam.ac.uk
Dr Erica Bello
Milner Therapeutics Institute
Topic: Functional genomics and gene editing in complex human in vitro models of disease
Email: eb956@cam.ac.uk
Dr Pedro Beltrao
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Evolution of cellular networks
Email: pbeltrao@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Ewan Birney
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Developing algorithms and data-mining techniques for example to find new cis-regulatory elements
Email: birney@ebi.ac.uk
Professor Mark Blaxter
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Tree of life
Email: mb35@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Michael Boemo
Department of Pathology and Department of Genetics
Topic: Developing AI and mathematical models to determine how genome replication and repair can be targeted in cancer and infectious diseases
Email: mb915@cam.ac.uk
Dr Susanne Bornelöv
Department of Biochemistry
Topic: Using bioinformatics and AI-based methods to study gene-regulatory processes
Email: smb208@cam.ac.uk
Dr Thorsten Boroviak
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Implantation germ cell specification and the continuum of pluripotent states in primate embryogenesis
Email: teb45@cam.ac.uk
Dr Leonardo Bottolo
Department of Medical Genetics
Topic: Computational methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (scATAC-seq)
Email: lb664@cam.ac.uk
Professor Sarah Bray
Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: From stem cells to tissues: Notch regulatory dynamics in development and disease
Email: sjb32@cam.ac.uk
Dr Alvis Brazma
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Gene expression and genotype data analysis; gene networks; algorithms for computational biology
Email: brazma@ebi.ac.uk
Professor James Brenton
Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Topic: Ovarian cancer prognostic markers predictive markers bioinformaticsexpression profiling clinical trial design using molecular end points
Email: james.brenton@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Dr Sam Brockington
Department of Plant Science
Topic: Evolution and diversity
Email: sb771@cam.ac.uk
Professor Carlos Caldas
Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Topic: Breast cancer; genomics proteomics metabolomics and bioinformatics
Email: Carlos.Caldas@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Professor D Stephen Charnock-Jones
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Topic: Placental development high throughput sequencing genomics regulation of endothelial cell function in health and disease translational research
Email: dscj1@cam.ac.uk
Dr Erik Clark
Department of Genetics
Topic: Early embryonic patterning in Drosophila; quantitative imaging and modelling of gene regulation; arthropod evo-devo
Email: ec491@cam.ac.uk
Dr Matthew Coelho
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Cancer Genetics
Email: matthew.coelho@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Rosana Collepardo
Department of Genetics
Topic: Multi-scale modelling of chromatin organization and related biomolecules. Multi-scale modelling of liquid-liquid phase separation in gene organization
Email: rc597@cam.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Conlan
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Epidemiology and mathematical modelling
Email: ajkc2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Tim Coorens
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Somatic evolution and phylogenetics; lineage tracing of cells; origins of cancer
Email: coorens@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Anne Corcoran
Babraham Institute
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
Email: anne.corcoran@babraham.ac.uk
Dr Isidro Cortes-Ciriano
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Cancer Genomics
Email: icortes@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Ana Cvejic
Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Topic: Developmental Haematopoiesis
Email: as889@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emma Davenport
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Functional Genomics
Email: ed5@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Paul Dupree
Biochemistry
Topic: Plant cell wall polysaccharides, food, biomaterials, glycobiology
Email: pd101@cam.ac.uk
Professor Richard Durbin
Genetics
Topic: Mathematical and computational genetics; bioinformatics; genome evolution; ancient and environmental DNA; cichlid fish speciation
Email: rd109@cam.ac.uk
Professor Douglas Easton
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Genetic epidemiology (especially cancer) and statistical genetics
Email: dfe20@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Anton Enright
Department of Pathology
Topic: Algorithms protocols and datasets for functional genomics. Regulatory RNAs
Email: aje39@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jess Ewald
EMBL-EBI
Topic: Environmental toxicology
Email: jewald@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Christine Farr
Department of Genetics
Topic: Chromosome biology centromeres topoisomerase II
Email: cjf1004@cam.ac.uk
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
Department of Genetics
Topic: Mammalian developmental genetics and epigenetics
Email: afsmith@gen.cam.ac.uk
Dr Rob Finn
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Computational approaches to understanding microbiomes
Email: rdf@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Paul Flicek
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Computational egigenomics and models for genome annotation
Email: flicek@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Melissa Gammons
Department of Medical Genetics
Topic: Molecular Mechanisms of Wnt signalling in rare and common disease pathenogenesis
Email: melissag@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Mathew Garnett
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Translational Cancer Genomics
Email: mg12@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Cedric Ghevaert
Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Topic: Megakaryocyte and platelet biology In vitro production of cellular components for transfusion in humans
Email: cg348@cam.ac.uk
Professor Bertie Gottgens
Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Topic: Blood development, blood stem cells, leukaemia
Email: bg200@cam.ac.uk
Dr Stefan Gräf
Department of Medicine
Topic: Genetics, genomics and environmental determinants of sex-differences in microvascular health and disease
Email: sg550@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jules Griffin
Department of Biochemistry (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)
Topic: Development of NMR spectroscopy mass spectrometry and pattern recognition techniques for metabolomics
Email: j.l.griffin@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Professor Greg Hannon
Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Topic: Biological functions and mode of actions of non-coding RNAs in normal development and cancer with particular focus on technology development
Email: Greg.Hannon@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Dr Jake Harris
Department of Plant Sciences
Topic: Epigenetics, chromatin, immunity
Email: cjh92@cam.ac.uk
Dr Eric Harshfield
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Multi-omics for prediction of vascular dementia and other vascular neurodegenerative diseases, and prioritisation of therapeutic targets for prevention and treatment
Email: eh457@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Ian Henderson
Department of Plant Sciences
Topic: Genetic and epigenetic inheritance in plants
Email: irh25@cam.ac.uk
Dr Brian Hendrich
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Topic: Transcriptional control of stem cell fate
Email: bdh24@cam.ac.uk
Dr Daniel Hodson
Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Topic: Elucidating the mechanisms of transformation from normal B lymphocyte to malignant B cell lymphoma
Email: djh1002@cam.ac.uk
Professor Florian Hollfelder
Biochemistry
Topic: Synthetic and chemical biology: mechanistic enzymology, enzyme discovery, biocatalysis for sustainable development, directed evolution, btechnologies for droplet microfluidics, single cell transciptomics, developmental cell biology in 3D, antibody engineering, functional metagenomics
Email: fh111@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jon Houseley
Babraham Institute
Topic: Molecular biology of ageing and adaptation
Email: jon.houseley@babraham.ac.uk
Dr Matt Hurles
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Genomic mutation and genetic disease
Email: meh@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Michael Imbeault
Department of Genetics
Topic: Functional characterization of KRAB-ZFPs and their role in the establishment of species-specific gene regulatory networks
Email: mi339@cam.ac.uk
Dr Kamil Jaron
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Evolutionary genomics of reproduction
Email: kj11@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Chris Jiggins
Zoology
Topic: Evolutionary Genetics
Email: cj107@cam.ac.uk
Professor Frank Jiggins
Department of Genetics
Topic: Evolutionary genetics of pathogens and immune systems
Email: f.jiggins@gen.cam.ac.uk
Dr Siddhartha Kar
Oncology
Topic: cancer epidemiology, cancer genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, clonal haematopoiesis
Email: sk718@cam.ac.uk
Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira
Genetics / Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Germline Stem Cell Biology
Email: felipe.karam-teixeira@gen.cam.ac.uk
Professor Arthur Kaser
Department of Medicine & Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease
Topic: Metabo-genetics of autoinflammation/autoimmunity (focus on Crohn's and Still's disease). Core metabolism of the cell.
Email: ak729@cam.ac.uk
Professor Tony Kouzarides
Department of Pathology (Virology Division/Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Topic: Transcriptional control by chromatin regulators
Email: tk106@cam.ac.uk
Dr Johannes Kromdijk
Department of Plant Sciences
Topic: Environment plant physiology
Email: jk417@cam.ac.uk
Dr Torsten Krude
Department of Zoology
Topic: Control of human chromosome replication
Email: tk218@cam.ac.uk
Professor Edmund Kunji
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Topic: Structure and function of mitochondrial transport proteins
Email: ek@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Trevor Lawley
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Host-microbiota interactions
Email: tl2@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Mara Lawniczak
Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Evolutionary genetics and genomics; Malaria; Biodiversity
Email: mara@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Adria LeBoeuf
Zoology
Topic: Evolution and impact of socially transferred materials
Email: acl79@cam.ac.uk
Professor Ben Lehner
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Generative Biology
Email: bl11@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Mohammad Lotfollahi
Welcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Email: ml19@sanger.acuk
Dr Hansong Ma
Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Topic: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: h.ma@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Professor Andrea Manica
Zoology
Topic: Evolutionary Ecology: response of animals and humans to changing environments
Email: am315@cam.ac.uk
Professor Stefan Marciniak
Department of Medicine (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: The role of cellular stress in rare lung diseases
Email: sjm20@cam.ac.uk
Dr John Marioni
Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Topic: Developing computational tools to handle big data - using single cell genomics to study cell fate and early development
Email: John.Marioni@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Dr John Marioni
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Computational and evolutionary genomics
Email: marioni@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Maria Marti Solano
Department of Pharmacology
Topic: Computational pharmacology and structural bioinformatics
Email: mm2402@cam.ac.uk
Dr Hilary Martin
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Population and medical genomics
Email: hcm@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Juan Mata
Department of Biochemistry
Topic: Genome-wide responses to stress.
Email: jm593@cam.ac.uk
Professor Eoin McKinney
Medicine
Topic: Autoimmunity, Inflammatory disease, immunology, genomics, Machine Learning
Email: efm30@cam.ac.uk
Dr Florian Merkle
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Understanding the cellular and molecular basis of neurological disease using human stem cell-derived and animal model systems
Email: fm436@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Gos Micklem
Department of Genetics
Topic: Bioinformatics computational biology data integration synthetic biology
Email: g.micklem@gen.cam.ac.uk
Professor Eric Miska
Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Topic: Control of gene expression through non-coding RNA
Email: eam29@cam.ac.uk
Dr Edwige Moyroud
The Sainsbury Laboratory and Department of Genetics
Topic: Genetics, Development, Evolution, Plant biology, Evo-Devo, Flower development, Molecular Biology, Imaging, Modeling, Pattern formation, Cell differentiation, Pollinator behaviour
Email: em500@cam.ac.uk
Professor Elizabeth Murchison
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Transmissible cancers
Email: epm27@cam.ac.uk
Dr Leila Muresan
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Microscopy image analysis
Email: lam94@cam.ac.uk
Professor Graham Murray
Psychiatry
Topic: Causes, mechanisms and treatments of mental disorder. Psychiatric and brain imaging genetics.
Email: gm285@cam.ac.uk
Professor Matthew Murray
Department of Pathology
Topic: Investigating genomic and non-coding RNA abnormalties in cancer
Email: mjm16@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jyoti Nangalia
Wellcome Sanger Institute and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Topic: Clonal Evolution, Cancer and Ageing
Email: jn218@cam.ac.uk
Dr Sergey Nejentsev
Department of Medicine
Topic: Genetic and functional mechanisms of susceptibility to infection
Email: sn262@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Stephen O'Rahilly
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease
Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Julian Parkhill
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Bacterial evolution and genomics
Email: jp369@cam.ac.uk
Dr Leopold Parts
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Understanding human DNA function by engineering
Email: lp2@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Uta Paszkowski
Plant Sciences
Topic: Plant Molecular Genetics
Email: up220@cam.ac.uk
Dr Virginia Pedicord
Department of Medicine
Topic: Microbiota effects on host physiology
Email: vap33@cam.ac.uk
Dr Eleanor Raffan
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience & Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Metabolic disease including obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological aspects; animal genetics
Email: er311@cam.ac.uk
Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan
Department of Medicine
Topic: The pathogenesis of tuberculosis and the basis of vastly different susceptibilities to this disease
Email: lr404@cam.ac.uk
Professor Lucy Raymond
Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability
Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk
Professor Evan Reid
Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: Unravelling the molecular pathology of axon death
Email: ealr4@cam.ac.uk
Associate Professor Alberto Rosello-Diez
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Control of size and proportions during limb development and regeneration
Email: ar2204@cam.ac.uk
Professor Mina Ryten
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: The role of RNA splicing in neurological diseases
Email: mr2022@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Julian Sale
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Vertebrate mutagenesis
Email: jes@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Emilia Santos
Department of Zoology
Topic: Morphology and Evolution
Email: es754@cam.ac.uk
Dr Aylwyn Scally
Department of Genetics
Topic: Evolutionary genomics
Email: aos21@cam.ac.uk
Dr Barbara Skelly
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Molecular basis of inherited diseases in the cat and dog
Email: bjs1000@cam.ac.uk
Professor Derek Smith
Department of Zoology
Topic: Evolution of pathogens
Email: d.smith@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Dr Mikhail Spivakov
Babraham Institute
Topic: The logic and robustness of gene regulation
Email: Mikhail.Spivakov@babraham.ac.uk
Professor Mike Stratton
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Cancer genetics and genomics
Email: cl24@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Iva Tchasovnikarova
The Gurdon Institute
Topic: Genetic interrogation of epigenetic pathways
Email: it257@cam.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Thomson
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Bacterial genomics and evolution
Email: nrt@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Richard Timms
Department of Medicine (CITIID)
Topic: Genetic interrogation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system
Email: rtt20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Mathew Van de Pette
MRC Toxicology Unit
Topic: Epigenetics. Toxicology. Developmental Programming. Pregnancy
Email: mv489@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jelle van den Ameele
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial genetics, gene expression, chromatin, mitochondrial disease
Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk
Professor George Vassiliou
Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Topic: Leukamia, pre-leukaemia, clonal haematopoiesis, clonal evolution
Email: gsv20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Roser Vento-Tormo
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Celluar genetics
Email: rv4@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Chris Wallace
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistical immuno-genetics
Email: cew54@cam.ac.uk
Professor Ross Waller
Department of Biochemistry
Topic: Molecular function, diversity and evolution in cells
Email: rfw26@cam.ac.uk
Dr Varun Warrier
Psychiatry
Topic: Neurodevelopmental conditions, genetics, big data, machine learning/AI, neuroimaging genetics, longitudinal data analyses
Email: vw260@cam.ac.ul
Dr Lucy Weinert
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: The ecology and genomics of bacterial pathogens
Email: lw461@cam.ac.uk
Dr John Welch
Department of Genetics
Topic: The causes of molecular evolution
Email: jjw23@cam.ac.uk
Dr Chun Hao Wong
Milner Therapeutics Institute
Topic: Functional genomics in human cellular models using CRISPR, high-throughput screening and high-content imaging
Email: wc389@cam.ac.uk
Professor Matthias Zilbauer
Stem Cell Institute
Topic: Intestinal stem cell biology and human health and disease
Email: mz304@cam.ac.uk
Research supervisors accepting applications from summer students
Professor Julie Ahringer
Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Topic: Regulation of chromatin structure and function in C. elegans
Email: ja219@cam.ac.uk
Dr Alexandre Almeida
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: High-resolution and large-scale approaches to investigate the function and diversity of the human microbiome in health and disease
Email: aa2369@cam.ac.uk
Professor Bill Amos
Department of Zoology
Topic: Evolutionary genetics
Email: w.amos@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Dr Carl Anderson
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Genomics of inflammation and immunity
Email: ca3@sanger.ac.uk
Dr William Astle
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistical methods with applications in genetics, genomics and haematology
Email: wja24@cam.ac.uk
Dr Madan Babu
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Systems biology regulatory genomics intrinsically disordered proteins biological networks GPCR signalling gene regulation and gene expression noise
Email: madanm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Professor Kate Baker
Genetics
Topic: Genomics epidemiology of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
Email: kb827@cam.ac.uk
Dr Erica Bello
Milner Therapeutics Institute
Topic: Functional genomics and gene editing in complex human in vitro models of disease
Email: eb956@cam.ac.uk
Dr Pedro Beltrao
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Evolution of cellular networks
Email: pbeltrao@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Ewan Birney
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Developing algorithms and data-mining techniques for example to find new cis-regulatory elements
Email: birney@ebi.ac.uk
Professor Mark Blaxter
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Tree of life
Email: mb35@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Michael Boemo
Department of Pathology and Department of Genetics
Topic: Developing AI and mathematical models to determine how genome replication and repair can be targeted in cancer and infectious diseases
Email: mb915@cam.ac.uk
Dr Susanne Bornelöv
Department of Biochemistry
Topic: Using bioinformatics and AI-based methods to study gene-regulatory processes
Email: smb208@cam.ac.uk
Dr Thorsten Boroviak
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Implantation germ cell specification and the continuum of pluripotent states in primate embryogenesis
Email: teb45@cam.ac.uk
Dr Leonardo Bottolo
Department of Medical Genetics
Topic: Computational methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (scATAC-seq)
Email: lb664@cam.ac.uk
Professor Sarah Bray
Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: From stem cells to tissues: Notch regulatory dynamics in development and disease
Email: sjb32@cam.ac.uk
Dr Alvis Brazma
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Gene expression and genotype data analysis; gene networks; algorithms for computational biology
Email: brazma@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Sam Brockington
Department of Plant Science
Topic: Evolution and diversity
Email: sb771@cam.ac.uk
Professor Carlos Caldas
Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Topic: Breast cancer; genomics proteomics metabolomics and bioinformatics
Email: Carlos.Caldas@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Professor D Stephen Charnock-Jones
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Topic: Placental development high throughput sequencing genomics regulation of endothelial cell function in health and disease translational research
Email: dscj1@cam.ac.uk
Dr Erik Clark
Department of Genetics
Topic: Early embryonic patterning in Drosophila; quantitative imaging and modelling of gene regulation; arthropod evo-devo
Email: ec491@cam.ac.uk
Dr Matthew Coelho
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Cancer Genetics
Email: matthew.coelho@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Rosana Collepardo
Department of Genetics
Topic: Multi-scale modelling of chromatin organization and related biomolecules. Multi-scale modelling of liquid-liquid phase separation in gene organization
Email: rc597@cam.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Conlan
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Epidemiology and mathematical modelling
Email: ajkc2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Tim Coorens
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Somatic evolution and phylogenetics; lineage tracing of cells; origins of cancer
Email: coorens@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Isidro Cortes-Ciriano
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Cancer Genomics
Email: icortes@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Ana Cvejic
Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Topic: Developmental Haematopoiesis
Email: as889@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emma Davenport
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Functional Genomics
Email: ed5@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Paul Dupree
Biochemistry
Topic: Plant cell wall polysaccharides, food, biomaterials, glycobiology
Email: pd101@cam.ac.uk
Professor Richard Durbin
Genetics
Topic: Mathematical and computational genetics; bioinformatics; genome evolution; ancient and environmental DNA; cichlid fish speciation
Email: rd109@cam.ac.uk
Professor Douglas Easton
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: Genetic epidemiology (especially cancer) and statistical genetics
Email: dfe20@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Anton Enright
Department of Pathology
Topic: Algorithms protocols and datasets for functional genomics. Regulatory RNAs
Email: aje39@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jess Ewald
EMBL-EBI
Topic: Environmental toxicology
Email: jewald@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Christine Farr
Department of Genetics
Topic: Chromosome biology centromeres topoisomerase II
Email: cjf1004@cam.ac.uk
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
Department of Genetics
Topic: Mammalian developmental genetics and epigenetics
Email: afsmith@gen.cam.ac.uk
Dr Rob Finn
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Computational approaches to understanding microbiomes
Email: rdf@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Paul Flicek
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Computational egigenomics and models for genome annotation
Email: flicek@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Mathew Garnett
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Translational Cancer Genomics
Email: mg12@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Nick Goldman
EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Molecular evolution, phylogenetics, comparative genomics data analysis and modelling, statistical computational molecular sequence analysis, algorithms for Next Generation Sequencing
Email: goldman@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Stefan Gräf
Department of Medicine
Topic: Genetics, genomics and environmental determinants of sex-differences in microvascular health and disease
Email: sg550@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jules Griffin
Department of Biochemistry (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)
Topic: Development of NMR spectroscopy mass spectrometry and pattern recognition techniques for metabolomics
Email: j.l.griffin@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Professor Greg Hannon
Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Topic: Biological functions and mode of actions of non-coding RNAs in normal development and cancer with particular focus on technology development
Email: Greg.Hannon@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Dr Jake Harris
Department of Plant Sciences
Topic: Epigenetics, chromatin, immunity
Email: cjh92@cam.ac.uk
Dr Ian Henderson
Department of Plant Sciences
Topic: Genetic and epigenetic inheritance in plants
Email: irh25@cam.ac.uk
Dr Brian Hendrich
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Topic: Transcriptional control of stem cell fate
Email: bdh24@cam.ac.uk
Professor Florian Hollfelder
Biochemistry
Topic: Synthetic and chemical biology: mechanistic enzymology, enzyme discovery, biocatalysis for sustainable development, directed evolution, btechnologies for droplet microfluidics, single cell transciptomics, developmental cell biology in 3D, antibody engineering, functional metagenomics
Email: fh111@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jon Houseley
Babraham Institute
Topic: Molecular biology of ageing and adaptation
Email: jon.houseley@babraham.ac.uk
Dr Matt Hurles
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Genomic mutation and genetic disease
Email: meh@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Michael Imbeault
Department of Genetics
Topic: Functional characterization of KRAB-ZFPs and their role in the establishment of species-specific gene regulatory networks
Email: mi339@cam.ac.uk
Dr Kamil Jaron
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Evolutionary genomics of reproduction
Email: kj11@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Chris Jiggins
Zoology
Topic: Evolutionary Genetics
Email: cj107@cam.ac.uk
Professor Frank Jiggins
Department of Genetics
Topic: Evolutionary genetics of pathogens and immune systems
Email: f.jiggins@gen.cam.ac.uk
Dr Siddhartha Kar
Oncology
Topic: cancer epidemiology, cancer genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, clonal haematopoiesis
Email: sk718@cam.ac.uk
Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira
Genetics / Physiology,
Topic: Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Germline Stem Cell Biology
Email: felipe.karam-teixeira@gen.cam.ac.uk
Professor Tony Kouzarides
Department of Pathology (Virology Division/Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Topic: Transcriptional control by chromatin regulators
Email: tk106@cam.ac.uk
Dr Johannes Kromdijk
Department of Plant Sciences
Topic: Environment plant physiology
Email: jk417@cam.ac.uk
Dr Torsten Krude
Department of Zoology
Topic: Control of human chromosome replication
Email: tk218@cam.ac.uk
Professor Edmund Kunji
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Topic: Structure and function of mitochondrial transport proteins
Email: ek@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Trevor Lawley
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Host-microbiota interactions
Email: tl2@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Mara Lawniczak
Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Evolutionary genetics and genomics; Malaria; Biodiversity
Email: mara@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Adria LeBoeuf
Zoology
Topic: Evolution and impact of socially transferred materials
Email: acl79@cam.ac.uk
Professor Ben Lehner
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Generative Biology
Email: bl11@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Mohammad Lotfollahi
Welcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Email: ml19@sanger.acuk
Dr Hansong Ma
Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Topic: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: h.ma@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Professor Andrea Manica
Zoology
Topic: Evolutionary Ecology: response of animals and humans to changing environments
Email: am315@cam.ac.uk
Professor Stefan Marciniak
Department of Medicine (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: The role of cellular stress in rare lung diseases
Email: sjm20@cam.ac.uk
Dr John Marioni
Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Topic: Developing computational tools to handle big data - using single cell genomics to study cell fate and early development
Email: John.Marioni@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Dr John Marioni
European Bioinformatics Institute
Topic: Computational and evolutionary genomics
Email: marioni@ebi.ac.uk
Dr Hilary Martin
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Population and medical genomics
Email: hcm@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Juan Mata
Department of Biochemistry
Topic: Genome-wide responses to stress.
Email: jm593@cam.ac.uk
Professor Eoin McKinney
Medicine
Topic: Autoimmunity, Inflammatory disease, immunology, genomics, Machine Learning
Email: efm30@cam.ac.uk
Dr Florian Merkle
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Understanding the cellular and molecular basis of neurological disease using human stem cell-derived and animal model systems
Email: fm436@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Gos Micklem
Department of Genetics
Topic: Bioinformatics computational biology data integration synthetic biology
Email: g.micklem@gen.cam.ac.uk
Professor Eric Miska
Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Topic: Control of gene expression through non-coding RNA
Email: eam29@cam.ac.uk
Dr Edwige Moyroud
The Sainsbury Laboratory and Department of Genetics
Topic: Genetics, Development, Evolution, Plant biology, Evo-Devo, Flower development, Molecular Biology, Imaging, Modeling, Pattern formation, Cell differentiation, Pollinator behaviour
Email: em500@cam.ac.uk
Professor Elizabeth Murchison
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Transmissible cancers
Email: epm27@cam.ac.uk
Dr Leila Muresan
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Microscopy image analysis
Email: lam94@cam.ac.uk
Professor Graham Murray
Psychiatry
Topic: Causes, mechanisms and treatments of mental disorder. Psychiatric and brain imaging genetics.
Email: gm285@cam.ac.uk
Professor Matthew Murray
Department of Pathology
Topic: Investigating genomic and non-coding RNA abnormalties in cancer
Email: mjm16@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jyoti Nangalia
Wellcome Sanger Institute and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Topic: Clonal Evolution, Cancer and Ageing
Email: jn218@cam.ac.uk
Dr Sergey Nejentsev
Department of Medicine
Topic: Genetic and functional mechanisms of susceptibility to infection
Email: sn262@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Stephen O'Rahilly
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease
Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Julian Parkhill
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Bacterial evolution and genomics
Email: jp369@cam.ac.uk
Dr Leopold Parts
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Understanding human DNA function by engineering
Email: lp2@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Uta Paszkowski
Plant Sciences
Topic: Plant Molecular Genetics
Email: up220@cam.ac.uk
Dr Virginia Pedicord
Department of Medicine
Topic: Microbiota effects on host physiology
Email: vap33@cam.ac.uk
Dr Julien Prudent
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Topic: Interactions between mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum in cell physiology and disease
Email: julien.prudent@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Eleanor Raffan
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience & Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Metabolic disease including obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological aspects; animal genetics
Email: er311@cam.ac.uk
Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan
Department of Medicine
Topic: The pathogenesis of tuberculosis and the basis of vastly different susceptibilities to this disease
Email: lr404@cam.ac.uk
Professor Lucy Raymond
Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability
Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk
Professor Evan Reid
Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: Unravelling the molecular pathology of axon death
Email: ealr4@cam.ac.uk
Associate Professor Alberto Rosello-Diez
PDN
Topic: Control of size and proportions during limb development and regeneration
Email: ar2204@cam.ac.uk
Professor Mina Ryten
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: The role of RNA splicing in neurological diseases
Email: mr2022@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Julian Sale
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Vertebrate mutagenesis
Email: jes@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Emilia Santos
Department of Zoology
Topic: Morphology and Evolution
Email: es754@cam.ac.uk
Dr Aylwyn Scally
Department of Genetics
Topic: Evolutionary genomics
Email: aos21@cam.ac.uk
Dr Barbara Skelly
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Molecular basis of inherited diseases in the cat and dog
Email: bjs1000@cam.ac.uk
Professor Derek Smith
Department of Zoology
Topic: Evolution of pathogens
Email: d.smith@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Dr Mikhail Spivakov
Babraham Institute
Topic: The logic and robustness of gene regulation
Email: Mikhail.Spivakov@babraham.ac.uk
Professor Nicholas Thomson
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Bacterial genomics and evolution
Email: nrt@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Richard Timms
Department of Medicine (CITIID)
Topic: Genetic interrogation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system
Email: rtt20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Mathew Van de Pette
MRC Toxicology Unit
Topic: Epigenetics. Toxicology. Developmental Programming. Pregnancy
Email: mv489@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jelle van den Ameele
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial genetics, gene expression, chromatin, mitochondrial disease
Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk
Professor George Vassiliou
Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Topic: Leukamia, pre-leukaemia, clonal haematopoiesis, clonal evolution
Email: gsv20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Roser Vento-Tormo
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Celluar genetics
Email: rv4@sanger.ac.uk
Dr Chris Wallace
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistical immuno-genetics
Email: cew54@cam.ac.uk
Professor Ross Waller
Department of Biochemistry
Topic: Molecular function, diversity and evolution in cells
Email: rfw26@cam.ac.uk
Dr Varun Warrier
Psychiatry
Topic: Neurodevelopmental conditions, genetics, big data, machine learning/AI, neuroimaging genetics, longitudinal data analyses
Email: vw260@cam.ac.ul
Dr Lucy Weinert
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: The ecology and genomics of bacterial pathogens
Email: lw461@cam.ac.uk
Dr John Welch
Department of Genetics
Topic: The causes of molecular evolution
Email: jjw23@cam.ac.uk
Dr Chun Hao Wong
Milner Therapeutics Institute
Topic: Functional genomics in human cellular models using CRISPR, high-throughput screening and high-content imaging
Email: wc389@cam.ac.uk