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Postgraduate School of Life Sciences

 

The Molecules and Cells Research Theme includes the following sub-groups:

  • Cell Biology
  • Cancer Biology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Genetics & Genomics
  • Immunology
  • Biochemistry
  • Microbiology
  • Neuroscience
  • Biophysics
  • Cardiovascular Biology
  • Cell Signalling

 

Principal Investigators in this theme:

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: 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 Jim Ajioka
Topic: Biology and evolutionary genetics of Toxoplasma
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: ja131@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/james-ajioka
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Maria P. 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 Joy Archer
Topic: Veterinary Clinical Pathology
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: ja331@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ja331@cam.ac.uk
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Radu Aricescu
Topic: The Structural Biology of Synaptic Connectivity
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: radu@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/radu-aricescu/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Katerina Artavanis-Tsakonas
Topic: Parasitology
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: ka447@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/artavanis-tsakonas
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD 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 Edward Avezov
Topic:
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Clinical Neurosciences
Email: ea347@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website:
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Gabriel Balmus
Topic: DNA Damage Response in ageing and neurodegeneration
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Email: gb318@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.balmuslab.org
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr David Barford
Topic: Mechanism and regulation of chromosome segregation in mitosis
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: dbarford@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/david-barford/
Applications from potential students are welcome
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: 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: 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 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 Institute
Email: eb956@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.milner.cam.ac.uk/target-discovery-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@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/elia-benito-gutierrez
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Mariann Bienz
Topic: Molecular Mechanism of Wnt signalling and cancer
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: mb2@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/m-bienz
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Andrew Blagborough
Topic: Malaria transmission
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: amb283@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-blagborough
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: Sir Henry Dale Fellow Alex Borodavka
Topic: Biophysics of viral replication mechanisms
; RNA therapeutics
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Biochemistry
Email: ab2677@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.borodavkalab.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Bradley
Topic: Regulation and function of death receptors in the microvasculature
Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Medicine
Email: jrb1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/bradley/
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 Bill Broadhurst
Topic: Structural dynamics of modular polyketide synthases
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: rwb1002@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/broadhurst
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Guy Brown
Topic: Microglia, neuroinflammation & neurodegeneration
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: gcb3@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.microglia.info/guybrown
Sorry no students can be taken this year
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 Simon Bullock
Topic: Shedding light on microtubule-based transport
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: sbullock@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/sbullock/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Folma Buss
Topic: Molecular mechanism of myosin motor proteins in health and disease.
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: fb207@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-folma-buss
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Carter
Topic: The Structure and Mechanism of Dynein
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: cartera@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/cartera/main.html
Applications from potential 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: Dr Mike Chapman
Topic: Myeloma and normal lymphoid biology
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (NHSBT)
Email: mac54@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-mike-chapman-2/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Jason Chin
Topic: Evolution and synthesis of new function
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: chin@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/j-chin
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr. Jeongmin Choi
Topic: Plant Symbiosis with Beneficial Fungi
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jc913@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/jeongmin-choi
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Betty Chung
Topic: Gene expression, Translation control, abiotic (temperature, pH etc..) and biotic (infection) stresses, Host:pathogen interactions,
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: bcy23@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/betty-chung
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Prof Murray Clarke
Topic: Novel mechanisms that induce vascular inflammation; particularly IL-1 family members and inflammasomes
Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine (Section of CardioRespiratory Medicine)
Email: mchc2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/clarke/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Nick Coleman
Topic: Human papillomaviruses
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Women's Health
Department: Department of Pathology (Molecular Histopathology Division)
Email: nc109@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/nick-coleman
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 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: Obstetrics & Gynaecology; Metabolic Research Laboratories (MRL)
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 Fernando Constantino-Casas
Topic: Pathology
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: fc307@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Andrew Crawford
Topic: Sensory transduction in the inner ear
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ac151@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-crawford
Sorry no students can be taken this year
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: Professor Colin Crump
Topic: Virus assembly, egress and host cell interactions
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Virology Division)
Email: cmc56@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/colin-crump
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Julia Davies
Topic: Signalling
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jmd32@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/juliadavies
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Pier Paolo D'Avino
Topic: Regulation and mechanics of cell division and its de-regulation in cancer cells
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Cellular Molecular Pathology Division)
Email: ppd21@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/paolo-davino
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Marc de la Roche
Topic: Oncogenic Wnt signaling in cancer
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: mad58@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/delaroche
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Janet Deane
Topic: The role of sphingolipids in health and disease
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: jed55@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-janet-deane
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Emmanuel Derivery
Topic: Mechanisms of asymmetric trafficking
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: derivery@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/emmanuel-derivery/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Doorbar
Topic: Human papilloma viruses (HPVs)
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: jd121@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/john-doorbar
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: Dr James Edgar
Topic: Membrane trafficking; MHC Class II antigen presentation
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Division of Immunology)
Email: je333@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/james-edgar
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sarah Elderkin
Topic: Investigation into the mechanisms and factors that enable regulated genome function in vivo
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: sarah.elderkin@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/nuclear-dynamics/sarah-elderkin
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: Professor Sadaf Farooqi
Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/i-sadaf-f...
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: Dr Brian Ferguson
Topic: Innate immune sensing of viruses
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Immunology Division)
Email: bf234@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.fergusonlab.path.cam.ac.uk/
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: Professor Andrew Firth
Topic: RNA virus gene expression, comparative genomics and molecular biology
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: aef24@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-firth
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Angeleen Fleming
Topic: How protein clearance pathways such as autophagy and the ubiquitin-proteasome system affect disease severity.
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: Af425@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/angeleen-fleming
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Oliver Florey
Topic: Autophagy (self eating) macroendocytosis (digestion of extracellular material) and entosis (a recently discovered form of cell cannibalism)
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: oliver.florey@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/oliver-florey
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: 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 Gillian Fraser
Topic: Bacterial motility and flagella biogenesis; Bacterial export pathways
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: gmf25@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/gillian-fraser
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jennifer 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 and 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: 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: Professor Nicholas Gay
Topic: Human Toll like receptors in inflammatory disease
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: n.j.gay@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/gay.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Gibson
Topic: Ion and water homeostasis in red cells and chondrocytes
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: jsg1001@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/jsg1001@cam.ac.uk/
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: Professor David Glover
Topic: Mitotic protein kinases centrosomes microtubule associated proteins
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: dmg25@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/david-glover
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Camilla Godlee
Topic: Investigating the interactions of pathogenic bacteria with eukaryotic membranes
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry 
Email: cbjg2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/faculty/camilla-godlee
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 Julian Gough
Topic: Computational Genomics
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: gough@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/julian-gough/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Stephen Graham
Topic: Virus:host interactions
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Virology Division)
Email: scg34@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/research/investigators/graham/
Applications from potential 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 Fiona Gribble
Topic: Signalling in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: fmg23@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/fiona-gri...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Harriet Groom
Topic: Retroviruses (HIV), SARS-CoV2, host-virus interactions
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: hctg2@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.groomlab.co.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mark Gurnell
Topic: Acquired and genetic disorders of hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid function; functional imaging in endocrine neoplasia; acromegaly
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology / Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: mg299@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AI/Gurnell/index.php
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Tim Halim
Topic: Cancer immunology - the role of innate lymphoid cells
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Tim.Halim@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/halim-group
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 Iris Hardege
Topic: Understanding the fundamentals of neurotransmission and how small brains generate complex behaviours
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Zoology
Email: ih287@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-iris-hardege
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Matthew Harper
Topic: Platelet death in thrombosis and thrombocytopenia
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: mth29@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/harper
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Phillip Hawkins
Topic: Cellular signalling with a focus on the PI3K signalling pathway regulating cell growth
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: phillip.hawkins@babraham.ac.uk
Website: https://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/phillip-hawkins
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr Ramanujan Hegde
Topic: Membrane protein biosynthesis and quality control
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: rhegde@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/r-hegde
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Richard Henderson
Topic: High resolution 3D structures by electron cryomicroscopy
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: rh15@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/r-henderson
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Professor Robert Henderson
Topic: Structure and function of biological macromolecules examined using the atomic force microscope
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Pharmacology
Email: rmh1003@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Henderson
Sorry no students can be taken this year
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 Judy Hirst
Topic: The structure and mechanism, function and medically-relevant dysfunction, of mitochondrial complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase)
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: judy.hirst@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/hirst-group
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, directed evolution, technologies for droplet microfluidics, since cell transciptomics, developmental cell biology in 3D
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: fh111@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://hollfelder.bioc.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Philipp Holliger
Topic: Synthetic biology of nucleic acid replication
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: ph1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/p-holliger
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Emeritus Christine Holt
Topic: Developmental Neuroscience
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ceh33@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/christine-holt
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Liz Hook
Topic: Innovating Protein Technologies for Therapeutic and Vaccine Design
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: ceh25@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/liz-hook
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: Professor Mark Howarth
Topic: Innovating Protein Technologies for Therapeutic and Vaccine Design
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: mh2186@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Howarth/research
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Christopher Howe
Topic: Biochemistry and evolution of photosynthesis
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: c.j.howe@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/howe.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Chris Huang
Topic: Calcium and cellular activation processes in skeletal and cardiac muscle including mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmogenesis
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: clh11@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/huang/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kate Hughes
Topic: The interactions between different cell types within the mammary gland during regression at the end of lactation
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: kh387@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/hughes
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Marko Hyvönen
Topic: Molecular mechanism of TGF-β family signalling. Development of chemical tools using fragment-based and structure-guided drug discovery methods.
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: mh256@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://hyvonen.bioc.cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Laura Itzhaki
Topic: Tandem-repeat proteins: Folding, function, role in disease, and therapeutic intervention
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: lsi10@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/lsi10@cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Stephen Jackson
Topic: Maintenance of genome stability/DNA repair
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: CRUK Cambridge Institute
Email: spj13@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/jackson-group
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Tony Jackson
Topic: Sodium channels and other plasma membrane proteins
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells
Department: Biochemistry
Email: apj10@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/jackson-tony
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Leo James
Topic: Molecular basis of pathogen detection and discrimination
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: lcj@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/l-james
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Randall Johnson
Topic: The micro-physiology of tissues and how it affects growth development and disease in mammalian genetic systems
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: rsj33@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/rjohnson/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Helle Jorgensen
Topic: Regulation of Smooth Muscle Cells plasticity and heterogeneity in health and cardiovascular disease
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Medicine
Email: hfj22@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.hlri.cam.ac.uk/investigators/helle-jorgensen/
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.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/rjohnson/
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 and Endocrinology,
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: Dr Walid Khaled
Topic: Tumour initiation and ageing
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: wtk22@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.wtklab.com
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Svetlana Khoronenkova
Topic: DNA repair and neurodegenerative diseases
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: sk870@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/khoronenkova
Sorry no students can be taken this year
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: Professor Vassilis Koronakis
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of toxin export; Salmonella effector proteins in eukaryotic cell entry
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: vk103@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/vassilis-koronakis
Applications from potential 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 Patrycja Kozik
Topic: Dendritic cells and initiation of the immune responses
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: pkozik@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/patrycja-kozik/
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 Nicholas Ktistakis
Topic: Mechanisms of autophagy
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: nicholas.ktistakis@babraham.ac.uk
Website: https://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/nicholas-ktistakis
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Wanda Kukulski
Topic: Linking membrane architecture to function by correlative microscopy
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: kukulski@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/wanda-kukulski/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr. Janet Kumita
Topic: Protein Self-Assembly: Linking Biomolecular Condensates and Amyloid with Biological Function and Disease
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Pharmacology
Email: jrk38@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/kumita
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 and Endocrinology,
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 Graham Ladds
Topic: Multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the molecular basis of G protein signalling
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: grl30@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Ladds
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andras Lakatos
Topic: Pathomechanistic and therapeutic discoveries at single cell resolution using novel human organoid models of neurodegenerative diseases
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Email: al291@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/andras-lakatos/
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: Department of Pathology
Email: hl316@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/heike-laman
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Madeline Lancaster
Topic: Human brain development in cerebral organoids
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: mlancast@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/madeline-lancaster/
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: 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 Joo-Hyeon Lee
Topic: Stem cells and niches in tissue homeostasis, regeneration, and disease
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: jhl62@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/lee
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Paul Lehner
Topic: Viral silencing and immune evasion pathways
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: pjl30@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/paul-lehner/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kathryn Lilley
Topic: The spatial and developmental transiptome and proteome
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)
Email: k.s.lilley@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/lilley.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Catherine Lindon
Topic: Control of human cell division by proteolysis
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: acl34@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/lindon
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Trevor Littlewood
Topic: Oncogenic signalling in cancer
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: tdl2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/littlewood
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Jan Löwe
Topic: The bacterial cytoskeleton and other molecular machines
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: jyl@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/jan-lowe/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ben Luisi
Topic: Structural biology of assemblies and regulatory complexes
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: bfl20@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/luisi.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Valeria Lulla
Topic: Molecular virology of RNA viruses, organoid infection model, viral infections of CNS
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Pathology
Email: vl284@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://lullalab.owlstown.net/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Sarah Lummis
Topic: Neurotransmitter receptors
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: sl120@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/lummis
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Paul Luzio
Topic: Membrane traffic in the late endocytic pathway
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: jpl10@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-paul-luzio
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Bidesh Mahata
Topic: Steroid-producing immune cells in regulating cancer inflammation and immunity
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: bm562@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/bidesh-mahata
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 Stefan Marciniak
Topic: The role of endoplasmic reticulum stress in disease
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 Maria Marti Solano
Topic: Computational pharmacology and structural bioinformatics
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: mm2402@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/marti
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr L. Miguel Martins
Topic: Mitochondria and cell death regulation following toxic injury
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Toxicology Unit
Email: lm795@mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/research/l-m-martins-programme
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 Ian McGough
Topic: Morphogen Signalling in Development and Ageing
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: ian.mcgough@babraham.ac.uk
Website: https://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/ian-mcgough
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer
Topic: Stem cell niche pathophysiology
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: sm2116@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-simon-mendez-ferrer/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Vito Mennella
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of defence of airway cells from environmental pollutants and infections agents
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC TU Unit
Email: vm430@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/staff/vito-mennella
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Liz Miller
Topic: Protein transport and quality control in the secretory pathway
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: emiller@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/liz-miller/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Paul Miller
Topic: Pharmacological approaches to control central nervous system (CNS) activity
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: pm676@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/miller/summary
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Michal Minczuk
Topic: Mitochondrial genome engineering to unravel the genetic links between mitochondrial gene regulation and human disease for future therapies
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: michal.minczuk@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/minczuk-group
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: Prof. Yorgo Modis
Topic: Understanding the role of viral RNA and endogenous viral elements in infection and immune homeostasis using structural, biochemical, and cell-based approaches
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine (Molecular Immunity Unit, MRC-LMB)
Email: ym10000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/ymodis/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Helen Mott
Topic: Structure, dynamics and interactions of proteins involved in signal transduction
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: hrm28@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/mott
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sean Munro
Topic: Functional organisation of the Golgi apparatus
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: sean@mrc-lmb..cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/s-munro
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: Dr Michael Murphy
Topic: Targeting molecules to mitochondria mitochondrial radical production thiol redox state and redox signalling
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: michael.murphy@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/mike-murphy
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: Dr Garib Murshudov
Topic: Computational Structural Biology
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: garib@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/garib-murshudov/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD 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 François Nédélec
Topic: Cell morphogenesis and developmental biology using synthetic and systems biology approaches and computer modelling
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Plant Sciences (Sainsbury Laboratory)
Email: francois.nedelec@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/nedelec-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kelly Nguyen
Topic: Molecular mechanism of telomere maintenance and the roles of telomeres in human diseases
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: knguyen@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/kelly-nguyen/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Daniel Nietlispach
Topic: G protein-coupled receptors, structural biology, NMR spectroscopy
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: dn206@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/nietlispach
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Cahir O'Kane
Topic: Axonal endoplasmic reticulum in Drosophila, and its roles in health and disease
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: cjo1003@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/research-groups/okane
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John O'Neill
Topic: Cellular Rhythms Signalling and Metabolic Regulation
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: oneillj@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/john-oneill/
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 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 David Owen
Topic: Structural Cell biology of membrane trafficking and organelle biogenesis
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: CIMR
Email: djo30@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-inv...
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Miles Parkes
Topic: Genetics of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis: GWAS post-GWAS and clinical translation of derived knowledge
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: mp372@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/parkes/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD 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: Dr Lori Passmore
Topic: Macromolecular Machines that regulate mRNAs
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: passmore@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/l-passmore
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 Manav Pathania
Topic: Brain tumours
Themes: Cancer, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology
Email: mp915@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pathanialab.com/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Kiran Raosaheb Patil
Topic: Gut microbiota and xenobiotics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Toxicology Unit
Email: kp533@mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/research/patil-programme
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Ole Paulsen
Topic: Network oscillations and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and neocortex
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: op210@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/ole-paulsen
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Luca Pellegrini
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication and recombination
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of 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: Dr Evangelia Petsalaki
Topic: Cell signalling, systems biology, computational biology
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: petsalaki@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/petsalaki
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer 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 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: Ms Eqbal Radwan
Topic: Plant biotechnology, plant molecular biology, nanobiotechnology in plant production
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Molecules and Cells
Department: Biology
Email: ernp2030@gmail.com
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=J8Iu9SYAAAAJ&hl=en
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Taufiq Rahman
Topic: Calcium signalling, chemical modulation of ion channels and receptors, rational drug design, computer-aided drug discovery
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: mtur2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/rahman
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Felix Randow
Topic: Cell-autonomous and innate immunity
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: randow@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/f-randow
Applications from potential 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 Randy Read
Topic: Methods for structural biology
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: rjr27@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-randy-j-read-frs
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD 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 Frank Reimann
Topic: Stimulus-secretion coupling in gut neuroendocrine cells
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: fr222@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AffiliatePI/Reiman.php
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Hugh Robinson
Topic: Electrophysiology of Cancer Cells, Cancer Neuroscience
Themes: Cancer, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: hpcr@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/robinson/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Margaret Robinson
Topic: Coated vesicles adaptors
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: msr12@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-margaret-robinson-frs
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor David Ron
Topic: Protein folding homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: dr360@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-david-ron-md-fmedsci-frs
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Katja Roper
Topic: Regulation of cell shape by the cytoskeleton during development and tissue morphogenesis
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: kroeper@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/katja-roper/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Prof Rahul Roychoudhuri
Topic: Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Pathology
Email: rr257@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://roychoudhurilab.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor David Rubinsztein
Topic: autophagy and neurodegeneration
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: CIMR Medical Genetics
Email: dcr1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-david-rubinsztein-fmedsci-frs
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Christopher Russo
Topic: Atomic resolution imaging of biological specimen by electron cryomicroscopy
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: crusso@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/christopher-russo/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Stewart Sage
Topic: Calcium signalling in blood platelets
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: sos10@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/stewart-sage
Sorry no students can be taken this year
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: Professor George Salmond
Topic: Bacterial signalling gene regulation and protein secretion
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: gpcs@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/salmond.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Milka Sarris
Topic: Immune cells and how they navigate through tissues in vivo to mount inflammatory responses
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ms543@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/milka-sarris
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor David Savage
Topic: Mechanisms of insulin resistance
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology,
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: dbs23@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/Savage/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Dee Scadden
Topic: Analysis of ds RNA hyper-edited by ADARs
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Biochemistry
Email: Adjs100@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/scadden.html
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Sjors Scheres
Topic: Visualising molecular machines in action
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: scheres@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/sjors-scheres
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sebastian Schornack
Topic: Common and contrasting processes in plant-pathogen interactions and symbiosis developmental processes
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: sebastian.schornack@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Website: www.schornacklab.net
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Christof Schwiening
Topic: Neuronal intracellular pH microdomains and their functional importance
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: cjs30@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?cjs30
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Matthew Seaman
Topic: The molecular mechanisms of endosome-to-Golgi retrieval
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: mnjs100@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-matthew-seaman
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Marisa Segal
Topic: Cell cycle control of mitotic spindle morphogenesis in budding yeast
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: ms433@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/marisa-segal
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Sanjay Sinha
Topic: Cardiovascular disease modelling and regenerative medicine
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: ss661@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/sinha
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Symeon Siniossoglou
Topic: Linking phospholipid metabolism to membrane and organelle function
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: ss560@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-symeon-siniossoglou
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Chris Smith
Topic: Regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Biochemistry
Email: cwjs1@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/smith-chris
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Professor Ewan Smith
Topic: Neurobiology of pain / Extremophile biology of the naked mole-rat
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: es336@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Smith
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Elizabeth Soilleux
Topic: Interesting projects available in immunity (TCR/BCR repertoire) cancer biology (esp lymphoma) histopathological imaging bioinformatics AI and clinical data handling. Active collaborations with the vet school maths engineering and industry
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: ejs17@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/elizabeth-soilleux
Applications from potential students are welcome
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 Len Stephens
Topic: Cellular signalling with a focus on the PI3K signalling pathway in neutrophils
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: len.stephens@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/len-stephens
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Katherine Stott
Topic: Organisational and regulatory roles of disordered proteins
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: ks123@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/stott
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Azim Surani
Topic: Mammalian germ cells; epigenetic reprogramming
Themes: Molecules and Cells, Women's Health
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: a.surani@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/surani
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Sutherland
Topic: Chemical origins of molecular biology
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: johns@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/bill-sutherland
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Chris Tate
Topic: Structural Biology of integral membrane proteins
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: cgt@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/t-to-z/chris-tate
Applications from potential 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: Dr Teresa Tiffert
Topic: Homeostasis of human erythrocytes in health and disease; calcium regulation in malaria-infected erythrocyte
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cellsy
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: jtt1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/tiffert/
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 Marco Tripodi
Topic: The space of actions - Neural circuits for transforming spatial representations into actions
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: mtripodi@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/tripodi/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Martin Turner
Topic: Lymphocyte development and activation
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: martin.turner@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/lymphocyte/martin-turner
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Suzanne Turner
Topic: Paediatric cancer
Themes: Cancer, Molecules and Cells
Department: Pathology (Division of Cellular and Molecular pathology)
Email: sdt36@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/suzanne-turner
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD 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: Professor Hendrik van Veen
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of multidrug transporters
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: hwv20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/vanveen
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: Professor Sir John Walker
Topic: Structure, function, assembly and regulation of ATP synthase
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: walker@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/walker-group
Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer 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: Professor Alan Warren
Topic: Mechanisms of ribosome assembly
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: ajw1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-alan-j-warren-fmedsci
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 Heidi Welch
Topic: Intracellular signal transduction through small G proteins and their regulators
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: heidi.welch@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/heidi-welch
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Martin Welch
Topic: Microbial Cell-Cell Communication
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology (incl. Plant Biology), Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Biochemistry
Email: mw240@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/welch
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alex Whitworth
Topic: Investigating mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases
Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: a.whitworth@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/whitworth-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Roger Williams
Topic: Structural studies of phospholipid signalling
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: rlw@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/t-to-z/r-williams
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Anne Willis
Topic: RNA biology
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Toxicology Unit
Email: aew80@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/research/willis-research
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: 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
Name: Dr Joseph Yeeles
Topic: Mechanisms of chromosome replication
Themes: Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: jyeeles@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/t-to-z/joseph-yeeles/
Applications from potential students are welcome

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