Principal investigators in theme:
Name: Dr Sebastian Ahnert
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: sea31@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Network analysis, genotype-phenotype maps, biological self-assembly, protein quaternary structure, evolution complexity
WWW: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/ahnert-group
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, evolutionary biology
Students: Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Professor Julie Ahringer
Dept: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: ja219@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Regulation of chromatin structure and function in C. elegans
WWW: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/ahringer
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Radu Aricescu
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: radu@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The Structural Biology of Synaptic Connectivity
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/radu-aricescu/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Margaret Ashcroft
Dept: Department of Medicine
Email: m.ashcroft@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular cell biology
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/ashcroft/
Themes: cancer, cardiovascular science and medcine, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr David Barford
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: dbarford@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanism and regulation of chromosome segregation in mitosis
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/david-barford/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Sir David Baulcombe
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: dcb40@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Gene expression
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/davidbaulcombe
Themes: plant biology, infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Howard Baylis
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: hab28@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Intracellular signalling mechanisms regulating the development and physiology of C. elegans
WWW: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-howard-baylis
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mariann Bienz
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: mb2@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular Mechanism of Wnt signalling and cancer
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/m-bienz
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Sir Tom Blundell
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: tom@cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structural biology and bioinformatics of multiprotein systems of receptor activation, signal transduction and DNA repair, early stage drug discovery in cancer and tuberculosis
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/blundell.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr Alex Borodavka
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: ab2677@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Viral RNA chaperones; multi-segmented RNA virus assembly mechanisms
WWW: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/borodavka
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Thorsten Bovoriak
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: teb45@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Implantation, germ cell specification and the continuum of pluripotent states in primate embryogenesis
WWW: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/thorsten-bovoriak/
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Louise Boyle
Dept: Department of Pathology
Email: lhb22@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Antigen presentation to cells of the immune system
WWW: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/louise-boyle
Themes: cancer, infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Sarah Bray
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: sjb32@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular biology of Drosophila development
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/bray_s/
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ian Brierley
Dept: Department of Pathology (Virology Division)
Email: ib103@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Ribosomal frameshifting, translational control of virus gene expression
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/ian-brierley
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Briggs
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: jbriggs@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Enveloped viruses and coated vesicles - cryo-electron microscopy and tomography
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/john-briggs/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Kevin Brindle
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: kmb1001@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular imaging in Cancer
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/brindle.html
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology, medical imaging
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Bill Broadhurst
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: r.w.broadhurst@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/broadhurst.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Guy Brown
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: gcb3@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Microglia, meuroinflammation, cell death and phagocytic signalling
WWW: http://www.guybrown.net
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, infection and immunity, cancer
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Nick Brown
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: nb117@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cell adhesion and morphogenesis in Drosophila
WWW: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/brown
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Clare Bryant
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: ceb27@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Macrophage activation in infection
WWW: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ceb27@cam.ac.uk/
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Clare Buckley
Dept: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ceb85@cam.ac.uk
Topic: My lab uses optogenetics and live confocal imaging of the zebrafish neural tube to study how the polarity of individual cells drives the organisation of a whole vertebrate organ
WWW: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/clare-buckley
Themes: cancer,developmental and regenerative biology and medicine,neuroscience, psychology and mental health,structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Raymond Bujdoso
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: rb202@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular pathology in prion disease
WWW: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/rb202@cam.ac.uk/
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Simon Bullock
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: sbullock@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of mRNA localisation and cytoskeletal transport
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/simon-bullock/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr Folma Buss
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: fb207@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Myosin motor proteins in health and disease
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-a-h/buss
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Albert Cardona
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ac2040@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Relationship between structure and function in neural circuits
WWW: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/albert-cardona
Themes: neuroscience, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Mark Carrington
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: mc115@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The trypanosome cell surface as the molecular interface between host and pathogen, gene expression, MRNA turnover, cell surface architecture
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/carrington.html
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Carter
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: cartera@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The Structure and Mechanism of Dynein
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/cartera/main.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kevin Chalut
Dept: Department of Physics (Wellcome Trust/ MRC Stem Cell Institute)
Email: kc370@cam.ac.uk
Topic: How physical processes drive the development of the mammalian embryo and the function of stem cells
WWW: http://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/researchers/principal-investigators/kevin-chalut
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mike Chapman
Dept: Department of Haematology (NHSBT)
Email: mac54@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Myeloma and normal lymphoid biology
WWW: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-mike-chapman-2/
Themes: cancer, Infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Edwin Chilvers
Dept: Department of Medicine (Division of Respiratory Medicine)
Email: erc24@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Second-messenger regulation of neutrophil priming and apoptosis
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/chilvers/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jason Chin
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: chin@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Evolution and synthesis of new function
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/j-chin
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, evolutionary biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Betty Chung
Dept: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: bcy23@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Gene expression
WWW: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/betty-chung
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Rosana Collepardo
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: rc597@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Multi-scale modelling of chromatin organization and related biomolecules. Multi-scale modelling of liquid-liquid phase separation in gene organization
WWW: http://www.collepardolab.org/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Simon Cook
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: simon.cook@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Regulation of MAP and SAPK pathways and their role in cell proliferation, apoptosis and oncogenesis
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/simon-cook
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Andrew Crawford
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ac151@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Sensory transduction mechanisms in the cochlea
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/crawford/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Gerry Crossan
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: gcrossan@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Maintenance of genome stability in the germline
WWW: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/gerry-crossan/
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Colin Crump
Dept: Department of Pathology (Virology Division)
Email: cmc56@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Herpesvirus assembly and egress
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/colin-crump
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Julia Davies
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jmd32@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Transport
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/juliadavies
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Pier Paolo D'Avino
Dept: Department of Pathology (Cellular Molecular Pathology Division)
Email: ppd21@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Regulation and mechanics of cell division and its de-regulation in cancer cells
WWW: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/paolo-davino
Themes: cancer, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Maike de la Roche
Dept: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute)
Email: Maike.DeLaRoche@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Understanding the role of the Hedgehog signalling pathway in the adaptive anti-tumour response
WWW: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/de-la-roche-group
Themes: cancer, infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Janet Deane
Dept: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Email: jed55@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of neurodegeneration: the enigmatic role of sphingolipids
WWW: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/Deane
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Emmanuel Derivery
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: derivery@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of asymmetric trafficking
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/emmanuel-derivery/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Paul Dupree
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: pd101@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Bioenergy, proteomics, bioinformatics and glycobiology
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/dupree.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, plant biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr James Edgar
Dept: Deparment of Pathology (Division of Immunology)
Email: je333@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Membrane trafficking; MHC Class II antigen presentation
WWW: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/james-edgar
Themes: cancer, infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Mike Edwardson
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: jme1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Exocytosis; recycling of receptors; atomic force microscopy
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/jme1000@cam.ac.uk
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Sarah Elderkin
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: sarah.elderkin@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Investigation into the mechanisms and factors that enable regulated genome function in vivo
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/nuclear-dynamics/sarah-elderkin
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Tai-Ping Fan
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: tpf1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Pharmacology of angiogenesis and natural products
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/tpf1000@cam.ac.uk
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Sadaf Farooqi
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/Farooqi
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Christine Farr
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: cjf1004@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Chromosome biology, centromeres, topoisomerase II
WWW: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/christine-farr
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Brian Ferguson
Dept: Department of Pathology (Immunology Division)
Email: bf234@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Innate immune signalling. Nucleic acid sensing. Host/pathogen interactions. Vaccine development.
WWW: http://www.fergusonlab.path.cam.ac.uk/
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald
Dept: Department of Oncology (MRC Cancer Unit)
Email: rcf29@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular pathology (expression profiling, molecular genetics, in vitro assays) to identify risk groups (diagnostic and prognostic) for oesophageal cancer and preinvasive lesions
WWW: http://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/fitzgerald.html
Themes: cancer, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Oliver Florey
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: oliver.florey@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Autophagy (self eating), macroendocytosis (digestion of extracellular material) and entosis (a recently discovered form of cell cannibalism)
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/oliver-florey
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kristian Franze
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: kf284@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Using biophysical and cell biological approaches to understand the influence of physical cues on the functioning of the nervous system
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/franze/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology, medical imaging
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Gillian Fraser
Dept: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: gmf25@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Bacterial motility and flagella biogenesis; Bacterial export pathways
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/gillian-fraser
Themes: infection and immunity; structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Peter Fraser
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: peter.fraser@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Investigation into the mechanisms and factors that enable regulated genome function in vivo
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/nuclear-dynamics/peter-fraser
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Daniel Gaffney
Dept: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: dg13@sanger.ac.uk
Topic: Genomics of gene regulation
WWW: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/gaffney-group
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, evolutionary biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jenny Gallop
Dept: Department of Biochemistry (Gurdon Institute)
Email: j.gallop@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Membrane-triggered actin polymerization: molecular mechanisms and morphogenesis
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/gallop
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mathew Garnett
Dept: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: mg12@sanger.ac.uk
Topic: Translational Cancer Genomics
WWW: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/garnett-group
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Nicholas Gay
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: n.j.gay@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Human Toll like receptors in inflammatory disease
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/gay.html
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Fanni Gergely
Dept: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute)
Email: fanni.gergely@cancer.org.uk
Topic: The role of cytoskeleton in cell division and polarity
WWW: http://www.cambridgecancer.org.uk/research-groups/gergely-group
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Gibson
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: jsg1001@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Ion and water homeostasis in red cells and chondrocytes
WWW: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/jsg1001@cam.ac.uk/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Richard Gilbertson
Dept: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute)
Email: Richard.Gilbertson@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Understanding the cellular and molecular origins of brain tumours with the aim of developing new cancer cures
WWW: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/gilbertson-group
Themes: cancer, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor David Glover
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: dmg25@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mitotic protein kinases, centrosomes, microtubule associated proteins
WWW: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/david-glover
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Julian Gough
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: gough@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Computational Genomics
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/julian-gough/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Stephen Graham
Dept: Department of Pathology (Virology Division)
Email: scg34@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of membrane trafficking and viral infection
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/research/investigators/graham/
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Tony Green
Dept: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: arg1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Haematopoietic stem cells/leukemia
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-a-h/green
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Fiona Gribble
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Affiliate)
Email: fmg23@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Stimulus-secretion coupling in gut neuroendocrine cells
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/affiliated/gribble
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Greg Hannon
Dept: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute)
Email: Greg.Hannon@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Biological functions and mode of actions of non-coding RNAs in normal development and cancer with particular focus on technology development
WWW: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/hannon-group
Themes: cancer, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Roger Hardie
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: rch14@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Phototransduction and ion channels in Drosophila retina
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/hardie/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Matthew Harper
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: mth29@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Platelet death in thrombosis and thrombocytopenia
WWW: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/harper
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Phill Hawkins
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: phillip.hawkins@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular signalling with a focus on the PI3K signalling pathway in neutrophils
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/phillip-hawkins
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ramanujan Hegde
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: rhegde@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Membrane protein biosynthesis and quality control
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/r-hegde
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ian Henderson
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: irh25@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Genetic and epigenetic inheritance in plants
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/ianhenderson
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, evolutionary biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Richard Henderson
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: rh15@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: High resolution 3D structures by electron cryomicroscopy
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/r-henderson
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr Robert Henderson
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: rmh1003@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Macromolecular structure and function examined using atomic force microscopy
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/rmh1003@cam.ac.uk
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Brian Hendrich
Dept: Department of Biochemistry (Wellcome Trust - MRC Stem Cell Institute)
Email: Brian.Hendrich@cscr.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Transcriptional control of stem cell fate
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/hendrich
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Frances Henson
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: fmdh1@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Intrinsic repair of articular cartilage
WWW: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/fmdh1@cam.ac.uk/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Julian Hibberd
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jmh65@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular physiology
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/julianhibberd
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, evolutionary biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Judy Hirst
Dept: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: judy.hirst@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The mechanism, function, and medically-relevant dysfunction of mitochondrial complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase)
WWW: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/judy-hirst
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Daniel Hodson
Dept: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: djh1002@cam.ac.uk
Topic: B lymphocyte development and malignant transformation towards leukaemia
WWW: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-daniel-hodson/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Florian Hollfelder
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: fh111@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanistic enzymology and directed evolution
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/hollfelder.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Philipp Holliger
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: ph1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Synthetic biology of nucleic acid replication
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/p-holliger
Themes: evolutionary biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nick Holmes
Dept: Department of Pathology (Immunology Division)
Email: nh106@cam.ac.uk
Topic: T lymphocyte activation; CD45
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/nick-holmes
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Christine Holt
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ceh33@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Axon guidance in the developing brain
WWW: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/christine-holt
Themes: neuroscience, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Christopher Howe
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: c.j.howe@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Biochemistry and evolution of photosynthesis
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/howe.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, plant biology, evolutionary biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Chris Huang
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: clh11@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Calcium and cellular activation processes in skeletal and cardiac muscle, including mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmogenesis
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/huang/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor James Huntington
Dept: Department of Haematology (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: jah52@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular recognition in haemostasis
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-a-h/huntington
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Marko Hyvonen
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: mh256@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Protein-protein interactions in the TGF-beta family signalling. Development of protein-protein interaction inhibitors using fragment-based drug discovery methods
WWW: http://www-cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk/groups/hyvonen
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Michael Imbeault
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: mi339@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Functional characterization of KRAB-ZFPs and their role in the establishment of species-specific gene regulatory networks
WWW: https://gen.cam.ac.uk
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine; structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nerea Irigoyen
Dept: Department of Pathology (Virology Division)
Email: ni236@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Understanding the role of Zika virus genome translation in viral pathogenicity and disease
WWW: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-nerea-irigoyen
Themes: Infection and immuminty, structural and moleulcar cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Laura Itzhaki
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: lsi10@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Integrating biophysics into medicine: cell cycle regulation and protein degradation
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/lsi10@cam.ac.uk
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Antony Jackson
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: a.p.jackson@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Membrane traffic protein targeting
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/jacksont.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Stephen Jackson
Dept: Department of Biochemistry (Gurdon Institute)
Email: s.jackson@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Maintenance of genome stability/DNA repair
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/jacksons
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John James
Dept: Department of Medicine
Email: jj400@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Understanding the dynamics of immune cell signalling networks using optical and chemical biology tools
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/james/
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Leo James
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: lcj@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular basis of pathogen detection and discrimination
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/l-james
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alexander Jones
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: alexander.jones@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Determining the mechanisms controlling plant hormone patterns and dynamics
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/jones-group
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Phil Jones
Dept: Department of Oncology (MRC Cancer Unit)
Email: phj20@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Stem cells and Cancer
WWW: http://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/jones.html
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Henrik Jönsson
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: henrik.jonsson@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Development of live imaging techniques and Computational Morphodynamics models at the cellular level.
WWW: http://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/directory/jonsson-henrik
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Fiona Karet
Dept: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: fek1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Renal tubular homeostasis in health and disease
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-i-p/karet
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Walid Khaled
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: wtk22@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The interface between basic developmental biology and cancer development
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/wtk22@cam.ac.uk
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Svetlana Khoronenkova
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: sk870@cam.ac.uk
Topic: DNA repair and neurodegenerative diseases
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/khoronenkova
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Vassilis Koronakis
Dept: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: vk103@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of toxin export; Salmonella effector proteins in eukaryotic cell entry
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/vassilis-koronakis
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Tony Kouzarides
Dept: Department of Pathology (Virology Division/Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: tk106@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Transcriptional control by chromatin regulators
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/tony-kouzarides
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Patrycja Kozik
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: pkozik@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Dendritic cells and initiation of the immune responses
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/patrycja-kozik/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Torsten Krude
Dept: Department of Zoology
Email: tk218@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Control of human chromosome replication
WWW: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-torsten-krude
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nicholas Ktistakis
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: nicholas.ktistakis@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Lipid signalling and intracellular transport
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/nicholas-ktistakis
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Wanda Kukulski
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: kukulski@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Linking membrane architecture to function by correlative microscopy
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/wanda-kukulski/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Edmund Kunji
Dept: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: edmund.kunji@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The structure and function of mitochondrial carriers
WWW: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/edmund-kunji
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Peter Lachmann
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: pjl1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Microbial subversion of innate immunity
WWW: http://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/directory/pjl1000@cam.ac.uk
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Graham Ladds
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: grl30@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the molecular basis of G protein signalling
WWW: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Ladds
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Heike Laman
Dept: Department of Pathology (Cellular Molecular Pathology Division)
Email: hl316@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cell cycle regulation, lymphomagenesis, haematopoiesis, gamma-herpesvirus, Parkinson's disease
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/heike-laman
Themes: cancer, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, infection and immunity, neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Madeline Lancaster
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: mlancast@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Human brain development in cerebral organoids
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/madeline-lancaster/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ernest Laue
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: e.d.laue@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structural biology of complexes involved in chromatin structure
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/laue.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Peter Leadlay
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: pfl10@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Genetics, chemical biology,enzymology, and engineering of natural products biosynthesis, synthetic biology,genome sequencing and genome mining for novel antibiotics
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/leadlay.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, infection and immunity
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Marcus Lee
Dept: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: ml31@sanger.ac.uk
Topic: Malaria Parasite Drug Resistance
WWW: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/lee-group
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Virgilio Lew
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: vll1@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular homeostasis and cell volume regulation in health and disease; mathematical models of cell homeostasis
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/lew/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Wei Li
Dept: Department of Medicine
Email: wl225@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of endothelial BMP signalling in cardiovascular diseases
WWW: https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/directory/wli
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Catherine Lindon
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: acl34@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Control of human cell division by proteolysis
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/lindon
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Michelle Linterman
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: michelle.linterman@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular and molecular changes in T-cell aging
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/lymphocyte/michelle-linterman
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Karen Lipkow
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: karen.lipkow@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Integrating cellular architecture and signalling
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/nuclear-dynamics/karen-lipkow
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Rick Livesey
Dept: Department of Biochemistry (Gurdon Institute)
Email: rick@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mammalian neural stem cell biology, fundamental and applied
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/livesey
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jan Loewe
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: jyl@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular machines - the bacterial cytoskeleton
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/j-lowe
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ben Luisi
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: bfl20@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structural biology of assemblies and regulatory complexes
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/luisi.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Paul Luzio
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: jpl10@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Membrane traffic in the late endocytic pathway
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-i-p/luzio
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Paula MacGregor
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: pm560@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular basis and evolution of host-parasite interactions in African trypanosomes
WWW: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/paula-macgregor
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Lesley MacVinish
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: ljm1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: CFTR and cystic fibrosis
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/ljm1000@cam.ac.uk
Themes: integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Eamonn Maher
Dept: Department of Medical Genetics
Email: erm1000@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: renal cell carcinoma, phaeochromocytoma, multiple primary cancers, genomic imprinting disorders and developmental disorders
WWW: https://medgen.medschl.cam.ac.uk/professor-eamonn-maher/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetics medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Stefan Marciniak
Dept: Department of Medicine (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: sjm20@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The role of endoplasmic reticulum stress in disease
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-i-p/marciniak
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Carla Martins
Dept: MRC Cancer Unit
Email: c.martins@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of cancer progression, lung cancer, therapy
WWW: https://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/research/carla-martins-folder
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Juan Mata
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: jm593@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Posttranscriptional regulatory networks
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/mata.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Hugh Matthews
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: hrm1@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Electrophysiology of vertebrate photo- and chemo- transduction
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/matthews/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Patrick Maxwell
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: phm29@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Oxygen sensing and renal diseases
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-i-p/maxwell
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer
Dept: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: sm2116@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Stem cell niche pathophysiology
WWW: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-simon-mendez-ferrer/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Catherine Merrick
Dept: Department of Pathology
Email: cjm48@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Malaria Parasite Biology
WWW: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/catherine-merrick
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Michal Minczuk
Dept: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: michal.minczuk@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Discovering the genetic links between mitochondrial dysfunction and human disease
WWW: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/michal-minczuk
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Eric Miska
Dept: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: eam29@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Control of gene expression through non-coding RNA
WWW: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/eric-miska
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Yorgo Modis
Dept: Department of Medicine (Molecular Immunity Unit)
Email: ym10000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular mechanisms of viral gene sensing and silencing
WWW: http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/ymodis/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kevin Moreau
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: km510@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Unconventional protein trafficking across the cell membrane
WWW: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/kevin-moreau/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Helen Mott
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: hrm28@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structural biology of proteins and complexes involved in signal transduction
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/mott.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sean Munro
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: sean@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Small G proteins and membrane traffic
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/s-munro
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Elizabeth Murchison
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: epm27@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The genetics and evolution of transmissible cancers
WWW: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/murchison/
Themes: cancer, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Michael Murphy
Dept: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: michael.murphy@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Targeting molecules to mitochondria, mitochondrial radical production, thiol redox state and redox signalling
WWW: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/mike-murphy
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Matthew Murray
Dept: Department of Pathology
Email: mjm16@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Children's Cancer and Leukaemia investigating the expression of non-coding RNAs
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/matthew-murray
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Garib Murshudov
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: garib@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Computational Crystallography
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/garib-murshudov
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kiyoshi Nagai
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: kn@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structural studies of the splicing machinery and the signal recognition particle
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/k-nagai
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kelly Nguyen
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: knguyen@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanism of telomere maintenance and the roles of telomeres in human diseases
WWW: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/kelly-nguyen/
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Daniel Nietlispach
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: dn206@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, structural biology of membrane proteins, G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/nietlispach.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ellen Nisbet
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: rern2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular evolution - from algae to malaria
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/nisbet
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Cahir O'Kane
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: c.okane@gen.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Synaptic signalling and neurodegeneration in Drosophila
WWW: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/cahir-okane
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Giles Oldroyd
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: giles.oldroyd@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Development of symbiotic associations in plants
WWW: https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/oldroyd-group
Themes: plant biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology,
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John O'Neill
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: oneillj@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular Rhythms, Signalling and Metabolic Regulation
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/john-oneill/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Stephen O'Rahilly
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular basis of severe obesity in man
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/hod/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Darerca Owen
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: do@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structure function relationships in small G proteins involved in cancer progression
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/owen.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor David Owen
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: djo30@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structural biology of transport vesicle and organelle biogenesis
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-i-p/owen
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Miles Parkes
Dept: Department of Medicine
Email: mp372@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Genetics of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis: GWAS, post-GWAS and clinical translation of derived knowledge
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/parkes/
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Lori Passmore
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: passmore@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Macromolecular Machines that regulate mRNAs
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/l-passmore
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Uta Paszkowski
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: up220@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cereal symbiosis
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/utapaszkowski
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr K J Patel
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: kjp@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: in mRNA Polyadenylation
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/kj-patel
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Luca Pellegrini
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: luca@cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: DNA repair and recombination
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/pellegrini.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Evangelia Petsalaki
Dept: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: petsalaki@ebi.ac.uk
Topic: cell signaling, networks, models, data integration
WWW: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/petsalaki
Themes: cancer, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Anna Philpott
Dept: Department of Oncology
Email: ap113@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Developmental biology, cell cycle, cancer, neurogenesis
WWW: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/philpott.html
Themes: cancer, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Julien Prudent
Dept: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: julien.prudent@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Interactions between mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum in cell physiology and disease
WWW: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/julien-prudent
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome
Name: Dr Taufiq Rahman
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: mtur2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular calcium signalling
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/mtur2@cam.ac.uk
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Venki Ramakrishnan
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: ramak@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structure of the translational apparatus
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/v-ramakrishnan
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Felix Randow
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: randow@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Genetic analysis of mammalian signal transduction
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/f-randow
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, infection and immunity
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Randy Read
Dept: Department of Haematology (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: rjr27@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Protein crystallography and pathogenesis
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-q-z/read
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, infection and immunity
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Wolf Reik
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: wolf.reik@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Mammalian developmental genetics, genomic imprinting and epigenetic reprogramming
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/epigenetics/wolf-reik
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology, women's health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Frank Reimann
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: fr222@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Stimulus-secretion coupling in gut neuroendocrine cells
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AffiliatePI/Reiman.php
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ingo Ringshausen
Dept: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: ir279@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Low grade lymphoma
WWW: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-ingo-ringshausen/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Hugh Robinson
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: hpcr@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural dynamics, synaptic integration and functional analysis of cell types in the cortex
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/robinson/
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Margaret Robinson
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: msr12@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Coated vesicles adaptors
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-q-z/robinson
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Katja Roper
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: kroeper@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Regulation of cell shape by the cytoskeleton during development and tissue morphogenesis
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/katja-roper/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: rahul.roychoudhuri@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Transcription factor regulation of cell fate-specification and function within the T cell lineage
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/lymphocyte/rahul-roychoudhuri
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor David Rubinsztein
Dept: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: dcr1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Autophagy and neurodegeneration
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-q-z/rubinsztein
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Christopher Russo
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: crusso@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Atomic resolution imaging of biological specimen by electron cryomicroscopy
WWW: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/christopher-russo/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Stewart Sage
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: sos10@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Calcium signalling in blood platelets
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/sage/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Julian Sale
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: jes@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Vertebrate mutagenesis and DNA damage tolerance
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/j-sale
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Benedicte Sanson
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: bs251@cam.ac.uk
Topic: We use genetics, live confocal imaging, computational analysis of cell behaviours and mathematical modeling to understand the morphogenesis of epithelia in developing Drosophila embryos
WWW: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/benedicte-sanson
Themes: cancer, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Milka Sarris
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ms543@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Immune cells and how they search tissues and find their way to sites of infection or tissue damage.
WWW: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/milka-sarris
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr David Savage
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: dbs23@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of insulin resistance
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/Savage/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Deirdre Scadden
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: adjs100@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Analysis of ds RNA hyper-edited by ADARs
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/scadden.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sjors Scheres
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: scheres@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Visualising molecular machines in action
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/sjors-scheres
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sebastian Schornack
Dept: Sainsbury Laboratory
Email: sebastian.schornack@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Common and contrasting processes in plant-pathogen interactions and symbiosis, developmental processes
WWW: http://www.schornacklab.net
Themes: plant biology, evolutionary biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Wilhelm Schwaeble
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: hws24@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The role of complement in health and disease
WWW: https://www.research.vet.cam.ac.uk/research-staff-directory/principal-investigators/infection-and-immunity/wilhelm-schwaeble
Themes: Infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Christof Schwiening
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: cjs30@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neuronal intracellular pH microdomains and their functional importance
WWW: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?cjs30
Themes: neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Matthew Seaman
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: mnjs100@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The molecular mechanisms of endosome-to-Golgi retrieval
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-q-z/seaman
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Marisa Segal
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: ms433@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cell cycle control of mitotic spindle morphogenesis in budding yeast
WWW: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/marisa-segal
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Hayley Sharpe
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: hjs49@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Receptor tyrosine phosphatase signalling in physiology and disease
WWW: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-q-z/hayley-sharpe
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Symeon Siniossoglou
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: ss560@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Linking phospholipid metabolism to membrane and organelle function
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-q-z/siniossoglou
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Barbara Skelly
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: bjs1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular basis of inherited diseases in the cat and dog
WWW: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/bjs1000@cam.ac.uk/
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Alison Smith
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: as25@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Plant metabolism
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/alisonsmith
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Austin Smith
Dept: Department of Biochemistry (Wellcome Trust - MRC Stem Cell Institute)
Email: Austin.Smith@cscr.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Embryo stem cell biology
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/smitha
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Christopher Smith
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: cwjs1@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Alternative pre-mRNA splicing
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/smithc
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ewan Smith
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: es336@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Pain; chemoreception; neuronal excitability
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/es336@cam.ac.uk
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Geoffrey Smith
Dept: Department of Pathology
Email: hod.sec@path.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Vaccinia virus replication, spread, immune evasion and pathogenesis. Vaccine development.
WWW: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/research/
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Daniel St Johnston
Dept: Department of Genetics (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: d.stjohnston@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cell polarity in development and cancer
WWW: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/stjohnston
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nancy Standart
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: nms23@cam.ac.uk
Topic: mRNA localisation and translation in Xenopus oocytes and eggs
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/standart.html
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Len Stephens
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: len.stephens@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Cellular signalling with a focus on the PI3K signalling pathway in neutrophils
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/len-stephens
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr David Summers
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: d.summers@gen.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Bacterial signalling, plasmid biology, bacterial cell factories
WWW: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/directory/david-summers
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, infection and immunity, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Azim Surani
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)
Email: a.surani@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mammalian germ cells; epigenetic reprogramming
WWW: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/surani
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, women's health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Sutherland
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: johns@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Chemical origins of molecular biology
WWW: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/bill-sutherland
Themes: evolutionary biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Chris Tate
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: cgt@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structural Biology of integral membrane proteins
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/t-to-z/chris-tate
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Colin Taylor
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: cwt1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular analysis of calcium signalling
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/cwt1000@cam.ac.uk
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Rebecca Taylor
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: rtaylor@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Systemic control of proteostasis and ageing
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/t-to-z/rebecca-taylor/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Aartjan te Velthuis
Dept: Department of Pathology
Email: ajwt6@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Studying influenza A virus replication and virulence at the molecular and single-molecule level
WWW: http://www.tevelthuis.com
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Felipe Teixeira
Dept: Department of Genetics
Email: fk319@gen.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanisms controlling and protecting germline stem cells
WWW: https://gen.cam.ac.uk
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine; functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine; structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alana Thackray
Dept: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: amt27@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular pathology in prion disease
WWW: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/amt27@cam.ac.uk/
Themes: infection and immunity, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Janet Thornton
Dept: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: thornton@ebi.ac.uk
Topic: Protein structure, function and evolution; ageing
WWW: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Thornton/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, evolutionary biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Teresa Tiffert
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: jtt1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Homeostasis of human erythrocytes in health and disease; calcium regulation in malaria-infected erythrocyte
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/tiffert/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, infection and immunity, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Marc Tischkowitz
Dept: Department of Medical Genetics
Email: mdt33@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Fanconi Anemia genes and hereditary breast cancer predisposition
WWW: https://medgen.medschl.cam.ac.uk/dr-marc-tischkowitz-2/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetics medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Marco Tripodi
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: mtripodi@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neural circuitry of action: from spatial perception to motor integration
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/t-to-z/marco-tripodi/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Martin Turner
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: martin.turner@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Lymphocyte development and activation
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/lymphocyte/martin-turner
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, infection and immunity
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Patrick Varga-Weisz
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: patrick.varga-weisz@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Chromatin dynamics
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/nuclear-dynamics/patrick-varga-weisz
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman
Dept: Department of Oncology (MRC Cancer Unit)
Email: pa-venkitaraman@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Chromosomal instability and cancer: translating molecular insights to clinical practice
WWW: http://www.mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk/venkitaraman.html
Themes: cancer, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Thierry Voet
Dept: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: tv2@sanger.ac.uk
Topic: Single-cell genomics
WWW: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/voet-group
Themes: cancer, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, neuroscience, psychology and mental health, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Michael Wakelam
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: michael.wakelam@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Systems biology of phosphatidic-acid-mediated signalling
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/michael-wakelam
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Walker
Dept: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: john.walker@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: How ATP is made; proteomic discovery of new mitochondrial membrane complexes
WWW: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/john-walker
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ross Waller
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: rfw26@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular function, diversity and evolution in cells
WWW: http://www.botany.unimelb.edu.au/eukdiv/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Alan Warren
Dept: Department of Haematology (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: ajw1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Pathogenesis of bone marrow failure syndromes and leukaemia
WWW: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-q-z/warren
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cancer
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Erica Watson
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: edw23@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Epigenetic mechanism of folate metabolism during development
WWW: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/watson-erica
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular biology, women's health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Alex Webb
Dept: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: aarw2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Circadian signal transduction
WWW: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/alexwebb
Themes: plant biology, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Heidi Welch
Dept: Babraham Institute
Email: heidi.welch@babraham.ac.uk
Topic: Intracellular signal transduction through small G proteins and their regulators
WWW: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/signalling/heidi-welch
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Simone Weyand
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: sw644@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanism of membrane proteins
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/weyand
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, medical imaging
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Roger Williams
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: rlw@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Structural studies of phospholipid signalling
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/t-to-z/r-williams
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Gavin Wright
Dept: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: gw2@sanger.ac.uk
Topic: Cell surface signalling
WWW: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/wright-group
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Joseph Yeeles
Dept: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: jyeeles@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of chromosome replication
WWW: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/t-to-z/joseph-yeeles/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Giles Yeo
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: gshy2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular control of appetite and obesity
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/Ai/Yeo/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, neuroscience, psychology and mental health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Philip Zegerman
Dept: Department of Biochemistry (Gurdon Institute)
Email: paz20@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Regulated replication initiation in genome stability and development
WWW: http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/zegerman
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, developmental and regenerative biology, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: m.zernickagoetz@gen.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cell fate decisions in the early mouse embryo
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/magda-zernicka-goetz
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology, women's health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
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