Lab Members

Originally from Romania
DVM (University of Agricultural Studies and Veterinary Medicine, Romania)
PhD University of Cornell, USA
Postdoctoral fellow (funded by Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: The DNA damage response in model organisms, Maintenance of Genome Stability team, Sanger Institute

Originally from St Petersburg, Russia
BSc, MSc (St Petersburg State University, Russia)
PhD University of Pennsylvania, USA
Postdoctoral fellow (funded by Cancer Research UK and Action for A-T)
Research interests: DNA repair and chromatin

Originally from Milan, Italy
BSc (University of Milan) 
MSc (University of Milan)
PhD (University of Zurich)
Postdoctoral fellow (funded by a Swiss National Science Fellowship) 
Research interests: Synthetic lethality and the DNA damage response

Originally from Coimbra, Portugal
BSc (Coimbra, Portugal), MSc (Birmingham, UK)
Technician (funded by Cancer Research UK), Maintenance of Genome Stability team, Sanger Institute
 

Originally from Grimsby, UK
BSc, MSc (Birmingham, UK)
Lab Manager (funded by Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: DNA repair.

Originally from London
MA MB BChir (University of Cambridge)
MPhil (University of Cambridge)
Graduate Student (Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow)
Research Interests: Mechanisms of synthetic lethality and viability involving the DNA damage response

Originally from Yorkshire
MA, MB BChir (University of Cambridge)
MSc (University of Edinburgh)
Graduate Student (Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow)
Research interests: Focused CRISPR screens of DNA damage response

Originally from Tel Aviv, Israel
BSc (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
MSc and PhD (Tel Aviv Medical School, Tel Aviv)
Senior Postdoctoral fellow (funded by Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: Post-translational modification of DNA damage response proteins.
In addition to his research interests, Yaron carries out important roles advising other lab members, supervising both graduate and undergraduate students and the members of the CPES facility

Originally from Hamburg, Germany
BA (University of Cambridge)
PhD (Univeristy of Cambridge)
Research assistant (funded by the Wellocme Trust)
Research interests: Genomics of disease

Originally from Chalfont St Peter, UK
BA, MA (Cambridge, UK)
Research Assistant (funded by Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: DNA repair

Originally from Granada, Spain
PhD (Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine "López-Neyra", Granada, Spain)
Postdoctoral fellow, (Marie-Curie Intra-European fellow)
Research interests: Cellular models for human disease

Originally from Settimo Milanese, Italy
MSc (Milan University, Italy)
PhD (Milan University, Italy)
Postdoctoral research (funded by Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: Replication and the DNA damage response in yeast

Originally from Extremadura, Spain
PhD University of Extremadura, Spain
Postdoctoral fellow (University of Oxford)
Postdoctoral fellow (funded by the Wellcome Trust)
Research interests: DNA damage responses in yeast and mammalian cells

Originally from Oxford, UK
BSc (Oxford Brooks University)
Graduate student - part-time (Radiation Protection Scientist, Public Health England)
Research interests: Cellular responses to chronic radiation

Originally from Cologne, Germany
BSc (Cologne University)
MSc (Cologne University)
Graduate student - (Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: Resistance mechanisms to DNA-damaging agents

Originally from Brentwood, Essex
BSc (University of Bath)
Graduate student (BBSRC iCASE)
Research interests: DDR protein-protein interactions in mammalian cells

Originally from Bournemouth, Dorset
BSc (London University, UK)
PhD (Edinburgh University, UK)
Information Specialist: Background in molecular genetics with successful postdoctoral experience in both academic and commercial settings (funded by Cancer Research UK).

Originally from Huddersfield, Yorkshire
BSc (Huddersfield University, UK)
Senior Technician (funded by the Wellcome Trust), Maintenance of Genome Stability team, Sanger Institute

Secretary

Originally from Istanbul, Turkey
BSc (Istanbul, Turkey)
Research Assistant (funded by Cancer Research UK and Mission Therapeutics)

Originally from Poznan, Poland
BSc and MSc (Poznan University, Poland)
PhD (Edinburgh University, Scotland)
Postdoc with Dr Maura Wallace, University of Edinburgh
Postdoctoral fellow (funded by Cancer Research UK and Mission Therapeutics)
Research interests: Cell cycle control and protein ubiquitination

Originally from Moscow, Russia
BSc (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Technician (funded by the Wellcome Trust)

Originally from China
BSc (Anhui University, Anhui, China)
MSc (University of Nottingham, UK)
Technician (funded by the Wellcome Trust)

Originally from Barcelona, Spain
BSc (University of Barcelona)
Research Assistant (funded by Action for A-T)
Research interests: Identifying potential mechanisms that suppress Ataxia-telangiectasia pathologies