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Postgraduate School of Life Sciences

 

The Functional & Evolutionary Genomics Research Theme includes the following sub-groups:

  • Molecular Biology, Genetics & Gene Expression
  • Cancer Genetics & Genomics
  • Medical Genomics, Pathology & Disease
  • Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
  • Epigenetics & Chromatin Remodelling
  • Cell Biology, Structure & Function
  • Microbiology, Bacterial Evolution & Immunology
  • Plant Biology & Agriculture
  • Developmental Biology & Stem Cell Research
  • Ecology & Evolution

 

Principal investigators in this theme:

 

Name: Dr David Adams
Topic: Experimental cancer genetics
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: da1@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/adams-group
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Sebastian Ahnert
Topic: Network analysis genotype-phenotype maps biological self-assembly protein quaternary structure evolution complexity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: sea31@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/ahnert-group
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
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 Sarah Aitken
Topic: Genomic pathology; Cancer evolution; Image analysis
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Toxicology Unit
Email: sa696@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.aitkenlab.org
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Alexandre Almeida
Topic: High-resolution and large-scale approaches to investigate the function and diversity of the human microbiome in health and disease
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: aa2369@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-alexandre-almeida
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Bill Amos
Topic: Evolutionary genetics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: w.amos@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/william-amos
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Carl Anderson
Topic: Genomics of inflammation and immunity
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: ca3@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/anderson-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Margaret Ashcroft
Topic: Biosciences (Molecular Cell Biology)
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Medicine
Email: m.ashcroft@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.med.cam.ac.uk/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr William Astle
Topic: Statistical methods with applications in genetics, genomics and haematology
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: wja24@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/a-to-g/willia...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Madan Babu
Topic: Systems biology regulatory genomics intrinsically disordered proteins biological networks GPCR signalling gene regulation and gene expression noise
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: madanm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/m-m-babu
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Prof/Ass Prof Kate Baker
Topic: Genomics epidemiology of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Genetics
Email: kb827@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://baker-lab.github.io/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Sir David Baulcombe
Topic: Gene expression
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: dcb40@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/davidbaulcombe
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Erica Bello
Topic: Functional genomics and gene editing in complex human in vitro models of disease
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Milner Therapeutics Insitute
Email: eb956@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.milner.cam.ac.uk/target-discovery-group/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Pedro Beltrao
Topic: Evolution of cellular networks
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: pbeltrao@ebi.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/beltrao
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ewan Birney
Topic: Developing algorithms and data-mining techniques for example to find new cis-regulatory elements
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: birney@ebi.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/ewan-birney
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Mark Blaxter
Topic: Tree of life
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: mb35@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/programmes/tree-of-life
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Michael Boemo
Topic: Developing computational methods that show how dysregulation or faults in cell cycle mechanisms can result in cancer
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: mb915@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.boemogroup.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
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: Dr Leonardo Bottolo
Topic: Computational methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (scATAC-seq)
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Medical Genetics
Email: lb664@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://medgen.medschl.cam.ac.uk/dr-leonardo-bottolo/
Applications from potential students are welcome
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 Alvis Brazma
Topic: Gene expression and genotype data analysis; gene networks; algorithms for computational biology
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: brazma@ebi.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/alvis-brazma
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor James Brenton
Topic: Ovarian cancer prognostic markers predictive markers bioinformaticsexpression profiling clinical trial design using molecular end points
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: james.brenton@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/brenton-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sam Brockington
Topic: Evolution and diversity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Plant Science
Email: sb771@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/sambrockington
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Carlos Caldas
Topic: Breast cancer; genomics proteomics metabolomics and bioinformatics
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Carlos.Caldas@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/caldas-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Peter Campbell
Topic: Cancer genetics and genomics
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: pc8@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/people/directory/campbell-peter
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: Professor Rosana Collepardo
Topic: Multi-scale modelling of chromatin organization and related biomolecules.  Multi-scale modelling of liquid-liquid phase separation in gene organization
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: rc597@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.collepardolab.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Conlan
Topic: Epidemiology and mathematical modelling
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: ajkc2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ajkc2@cam.ac.uk
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 Isidro Cortes-Ciriano
Topic: Cancer Genomics
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: icortes@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/cortes-ciriano
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: Dr Emma Davenport
Topic: Functional genomics
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: ed5@sanger.ac.uk
Website: www.davenportlab.com
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 Richard Durbin
Topic: Mathematical and computational genetics; bioinformatics; genome evolution; ancient and environmental DNA; cichlid
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: rd109@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/research-groups/durbin
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Douglas Easton
Topic: Genetic epidemiology (especially cancer) and statistical genetics
Themes: Cancer, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Women's Health
Department: Public Health and Primary Care
Email: dfe20@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/centre-for-cancer-genetic-epidemiology...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Anton Enright
Topic: Algorithms protocols and datasets for functional genomics. Regulatory RNAs
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: aje39@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/anton-enright
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Christine Farr
Topic: Chromosome biology centromeres topoisomerase II
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: cjf1004@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/christine-farr
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 Rob Finn
Topic: Computational approaches to understanding microbiomes
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: rdf@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/finn
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Paul Flicek
Topic: Computational egigenomics and models for genome annotation
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: flicek@ebi.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/vg/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Andres Floto
Topic: Innate immunity; bacterial genetics; antibiotic discovery
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: arf27@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.hlri.cam.ac.uk/investigators/andres-floto/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Melissa Gammons
Topic: Molecular Mechanisms of Wnt signalling in rare and common disease pathenogenesis
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medical Genetics
Email: melissag@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: NA
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Mathew Garnett
Topic: Translational Cancer Genomics
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: mg12@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/garnett-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Cedric Ghevaert
Topic: Megakaryocyte and platelet biology In vitro production of cellular components for transfusion in humans
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: cg348@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/ghevaert
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Richard Gilbertson
Topic: Understanding the cellular and molecular origins of brain tumours with the aim of developing new cancer cures
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Richard.Gilbertson@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/gilbertson-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nick Goldman
Topic: theoretical molecular evolution, comparative genomics data analysis and modelling, statistical computational molecular sequence analysis, algorithms for Next Generation Sequencing
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells,
Department: EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: goldman@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/goldman/
Applications from potential students are welcome
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: Dr Jules Griffin
Topic: Development of NMR spectroscopy mass spectrometry and pattern recognition techniques for metabolomics
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Biochemistry (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)
Email: j.l.griffin@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/griffin.html
Applications from potential 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 Jake Harris
Topic: Epigenetics, chromatin, immunity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: cjh92@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/chromatin-and-memory
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ian Henderson
Topic: Genetic and epigenetic inheritance in plants
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: irh25@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/ianhenderson
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: Dr Daniel Hodson
Topic: Elucidating the mechanisms of transformation from normal B lymphocyte to malignant B cell lymphoma
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: djh1002@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/hodson
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Florian Hollfelder
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
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Biochemistry
Email: fh111@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://hollfelder.bioc.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jon Houseley
Topic: Mechanisms by which cells adapt to their environment
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: jon.houseley@babraham.ac.uk
Website: https://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/epigenetics/jon-houseley
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Matt Hurles
Topic: Genomic mutation and genetic disease
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: meh@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/hurles-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Michael Imbeault
Topic: Functional characterization of KRAB-ZFPs and their role in the establishment of species-specific gene regulatory networks
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: mi339@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://gen.cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Chris Jiggins
Topic: Evolutionary Genetics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: cj107@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://heliconius.zoo.cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Frank Jiggins
Topic: Evolutionary genetics of pathogens and immune systems
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: f.jiggins@gen.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/frank-jiggins
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr. Siddhartha Kar
Topic: cancer epidemiology, cancer genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, clonal haematopoiesis
Themes: Cancer, Women's Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Oncology
Email: sk718@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/dr-siddhartha-kar
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: Professor Arthur Kaser
Topic: Metabo-genetics of autoinflammation/autoimmunity (focus on Crohn's and Still's disease). Core metabolism of the cell.
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Medicine & Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease
Email: ak729@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/arthur-kaser/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Tony Kouzarides
Topic: Transcriptional control by chromatin regulators
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Virology Division/Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: tk106@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/tony-kouzarides
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Johannes Kromdijk
Topic: Environment plant physiology
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jk417@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/johanneskromdijk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Torsten Krude
Topic: Control of human chromosome replication
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: tk218@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-torsten-krude
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Edmund Kunji
Topic: Structure and function of mitochondrial transport proteins
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: ek@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/kunji-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski
Topic: Natural genetic variation (in malaria)
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: dominic@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/kwiatkowski-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ernest Laue
Topic: Chromatin remodelling and genome structure
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: e.d.laue@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/laue
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Trevor Lawley
Topic: Host-microbiota interactions
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: tl2@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/lawley-lab
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mara Lawniczak
Topic: Evolutionary genetics and genomics; Malaria; Biodiversity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity,
Department: Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: mara@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/ma
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: Professor Eamonn Maher
Topic: renal cell carcinoma phaeochromocytoma multiple primary cancers genomic imprinting disorders and developmental disorders
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medical Genetics
Email: erm1000@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://medgen.medschl.cam.ac.uk/professor-eamonn-maher/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Andrea Manica
Topic: Evolutionary Ecology: response of animals and humans to changing environments
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Zoology
Email: am315@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://eeg.zoo.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Stefan Marciniak
Topic: The Marciniak lab studies cell biology and genetics of rare lung diseases. Projects in alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency focus on its cell biology. Mesothelioma projects involve (i) the development of cancer organoid models, (ii) characterising the disease using new single cell technologies, and (iii) using nanotechnology to deliver drugs to mesothelioma cell. Our familial pneumothorax projects crated the NHS Pneumothorax Gene Panel and now focus on AI-assisted diagnosis
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Medicine (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: sjm20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-stefan-marciniak
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 John Marioni
Topic: Computational and evolutionary genomics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: marioni@ebi.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/marioni/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Hilary Martin
Topic: Population and medical genomics
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: hcm@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/martin-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Juan Mata
Topic: Genome-wide responses to stress.
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: jm593@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/mata
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Florian Merkle
Topic: Understanding the cellular and molecular basis of neurological disease using human stem cell-derived and animal model systems
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: fm436@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.merklelab.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Gos Micklem
Topic: Bioinformatics computational biology data integration synthetic biology
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: g.micklem@gen.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/gos-micklem
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Eric Miska
Topic: Control of gene expression through non-coding RNA
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: eam29@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/eric-miska
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: Professor Elizabeth Murchison
Topic: Transmissible cancers
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: epm27@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/
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: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: lam94@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/muresan
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: Dr Sergey Nejentsev
Topic: Genetic and functional mechanisms of susceptibility to infection
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: sn262@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/nejentsev/
Applications from potential 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, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
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 Julian Parkhill
Topic: Bacterial evolution and genomics
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: jp369@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://pathgenevocam.github.io
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Leopold Parts
Topic: Genetic screens of cellular traits
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: lp2@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/parts-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Uta Paszkowski
Topic: Plant Molecular Genetics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Plant Sciences
Email: up220@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/utapaszkowski.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Virginia Pedicord
Topic: Microbiota effects on host physiology
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: vap33@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/virginia-pedicord/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Julien Prudent
Topic: Interactions between mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum in cell physiology and disease
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: julien.prudent@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/julien-prudent
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr Eleanor Raffan
Topic: Metabolic disease and obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological insights from spontaneous veterinary models of disease.  Also interspecies communication!
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology,
Department: PDN
Email: er311@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/eleanor-raffan
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan
Topic: The pathogenesis of tuberculosis and the basis of vastly different susceptibilities to this disease
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: lr404@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/Ramakrishnan/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Lucy Raymond
Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-lucy-raymond
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Evan Reid
Topic: Unravelling the molecular pathology of axon death
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: ealr4@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-evan-reid
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: Professor Steve Russell
Topic: Drosophila SOX domain genes. genomics approaches to gene function and systems biology
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)
Email: s.russell@gen.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/steve-russell
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Julian Sale
Topic: Vertebrate mutagenesis
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: jes@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/jes/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Emilia Santos
Topic: Morphology and Evolution
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: es754@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/emilia-santos
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr David Sargan
Topic:
Comparative and disease genetics. Mapping Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome (BOAS) associated genes, cancer prediposition genes; inherited eye diseases and other inherited diseases in dogs and other companion animals, partially breed specific canine cancers.
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: drs20@cam.ac.uk
Website:
https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/drs20%40cam.ac.uk
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Aylwyn Scally
Topic: Evolutionary genomics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: aos21@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/aylwyn-scally
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nadia Schoenmakers
Topic: Genetic basis of congenital hypothyroidism
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: naaa2@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/nadia-sch...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Barbara Skelly
Topic: Molecular basis of inherited diseases in the cat and dog
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: bjs1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/bjs1000@cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Derek Smith
Topic: Evolution of pathogens
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: d.smith@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/derek-smith
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Nicole Soranzo
Topic: Human complex traits
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: ns6@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/soranzo-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mikhail Spivakov
Topic: The logic and robustness of gene regulation
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: Mikhail.Spivakov@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/nuclear-dynamics/mikhail-spivakov
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Mike Stratton
Topic: Cancer genetics and genomics
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: cl24@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/people/directory/stratton-sir-mike
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Iva Tchasovnikarova
Topic: Genetic interrogation of epigenetic pathways
Themes:Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells,
Department: The Gurdon Institute
Email: it257@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.tchasovnikarova-lab.org
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Nicholas Thomson
Topic: Bacterial genomics and evolution
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: nrt@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/thomson-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Richard Timms
Topic: Genetic interrogation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine (CITIID)
Email: rtt20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.timmslab.com
Applications from potential 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: Professor George Vassiliou
Topic: Leukamia, pre-leukaemia, clonal haematopoiesis, clonal evolution
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: gsv20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/vassiliou
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 Chris Wallace
Topic: Statistical immuno-genetics
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: cew54@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/t-to-z/chris-...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ross Waller
Topic: Molecular function, diversity and evolution in cells
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: rfw26@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.wallercellevolution.com
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Lucy Weinert
Topic: The ecology and genomics of bacterial pathogens
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: lw461@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.research.vet.cam.ac.uk/research-staff-directory/principal-in...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Welch
Topic: The causes of molecular evolution
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: jjw23@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/john-welch
Applications from potential students are welcome

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