Lab Members

Iñigo Ayestaran
Bioinformatician (funded by Wellcome)

Rimma Belotserkovskaya
Postdoctoral fellow (funded by Cancer Research UK and Action for A-T)
Research interests: DNA repair and chromatin

Linda Baskcomb
Lab Manager (funded by Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: DNA repair.

Ramsay Bowden
Graduate Student (Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow)
Research Interests: Mechanisms of synthetic lethality and viability involving the DNA damage response

Harveer Dev
Graduate Student (Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow)
Research interests: Focused CRISPR screens of DNA damage response

Yaron Galanty
Senior Postdoctoral fellow (funded by Cancer Research UK and Wellcome)
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

Julia Coates
Research Assistant (funded by Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: DNA repair

Francisco Muñoz-Martinez
Postdoctoral fellow, (funded by AstraZeneca collaborative award and Wellcome)
Research interests: Cellular models for human disease

Fabio Puddu
Postdoctoral research (funded by Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: Replication and the DNA damage response in yeast

Israel Salguero
Postdoctoral fellow (funded by Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: DNA damage responses in yeast and mammalian cells

Matylda Sczaniecka-Clift
Postdoctoral fellow (funded by Cancer Research UK and Mission Therapeutics)
Research interests: Cell cycle control and protein ubiquitination

Rebecca Lloyd
BBSRC Industrial CASE Partnership graduate student (with AstraZeneca)
Research interests: Mechanistic insights into ATR dependency during replication resulting from BRCA or ATM deficiency

Donna Lowe
Graduate student - part-time (Radiation Protection Scientist, Public Health England)
Research interests: Cellular responses to chronic radiation

Domenic Pilger
Graduate student - (Cancer Research UK)
Research interests: Resistance mechanisms to DNA-damaging agents

Mukerrem Demir
Research Assistant (funded by Cancer Research UK and Mission Therapeutics)

Kate Dry
Information Specialist: Background in molecular genetics with successful postdoctoral experience in both academic and commercial settings (funded by Cancer Research UK).

Maryam Ghaderi-Najafabadi
Research Assistant (funded by AstraZeneca colloborative award)
Research interests: Resistance mechanisms in the DNA damage response

Soren Hough
Research Assistant/graduate student (funded by Wellcome)
Research interests: CRISPR technology and its application to the DDR

Maria Martin Agudo
Research assistant funded by Wellcome

Elisenda Raga Gil
Research Assistant (funded by Action for A-T)
Research interests: Identifying potential mechanisms that suppress Ataxia-telangiectasia pathologies

Helen Reed
Laboratory Administrator

David Morales
Graduate student (CONACYT Cambridge Scholarship)
Research interests: Genetic and functional interactions in the mammalian DNA damage response.

Giuseppina D'alessandro
Postdoctoral fellow (funded by Wellcome)
Research interests: lncRNAs (long non-coding RNAs) and the DNA damage response























