People
KJ Patel
I am originally from Kenya and first came to the UK to study. After finishing medical school I completed a PhD at the LMB with Michael Neuberger in immunology. After a brief spell in medicine I returned to LMB as an MRC Clinician Scientist fellow to work with Ashok Venkitaraman. The work I did then led to an interest in chromosome breakage syndromes. Since 2000 I have been running my own research group at LMB, I was initially supported by the award of on MRC Snr Clinical Research Fellowship and then subsequently by the LMB.
- KJ Patel CV (doc)
Gerry Crossan (PhD student)
Gerry comes from Belfast where he is a medical student having gained a top 1st intercalated BSc. In 2008 he was awarded an MRC LMB PhD studentship. Currently he works on developing new mouse models for crosslink repair.
Judith Langenick (Postdoc)
Judith did her BSc in Dundee where she got a first. She then did her PhD in Jeff William’s lab on signalling in Dictyostelium. After a brief stint in Heidelberg as a postdoc she joined our lab in 2008. Judith carries on the work done by XY Zhang on DNA crosslink repair in Dictyostelium.
Fred Langevin (PhD student)
Fred is from France and came to Cambridge as a Master Student at the Gurdon Institute. After completing his degree from the Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie, University of Strasbourg, he joined our group in November 2004 as a research assistant. Fred's main work, together with Arno, focused on the FA core complex by generating knock out and in situ tagged cell lines in the DT40 system. Since October 2007, Fred has decided to pursue a PhD in the lab. He is now focusing on developing knock out mouse models of Fanconi Anemia in order to study the disease at the whole organism level. Outside the lab, Fred's interests lie in photography and sport (cycling and football). Fred is supported by a grant from the Children with Leukaemia trust.
Michael Hodskinson (Postdoc)
Michael did his BSc in Nottingham University. He then moved to Sheffield where he worked with Prof John Sayers for PhD on nucleases. Michael is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the LRF and is currently working on the biochemistry of crosslink repair.
Ivan Rosado (Post Doc)
Ivan V. Rosado is originally from Seville, Spain. During his BSc he joined as undergraduated research to Prof Tahia Benitez's lab, studying cell wall morphogenesis in Trichoderma harzianun. He conducted his PhD at Dept. of Genetics University of Sevilla, in Jesus de la Cruz's lab studying 60S ribosomal subunit's biogenesis in budding yeast. He joined our group as a postdoc on August 2008 and is funded by a personal FEBS fellowship.
Meera Sivasubraminium (Postdoc)
Meera completed her PhD in Sheffield prior to joining our lab. Meera works on the biochemistry of crosslink repair.
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Previous lab members
Arno Alpi (Post doc)
Arno Alpi has now moved to the brand new SCILLS (Scottish Institute for Cell Signaling) institute at Dundee to set up his own lab. Arno will continue his work on the role of ubiquitination in the DNA damage response.
http://www.scills.ac.uk/arno-alpi.shtml
Paul Pace (Research assistant)
Paul Pace was a research assistant from 2000-2009. He completed his PhD on the biochemistry of FANCD2 in 2008 and has now immigrated with his family to New Zealand. He is currently a post doc at the University of Otago in Christchurh NZ where he works in the murky field of reactive oxygen biology.
http://www.chmeds.ac.nz/research/freerad/mark.htm
Vibe Ostergaard (Post Doc)
Vibe left the group in 2008 to continue as a postdoc working with Michael Lisby at the University of Copenhagen. She is continuing her work in DNA repair. Whilst in Cambridge Vibe was supported by the AICR and then by a fellowship from the Danish cancer Society.
http://www1.bio.ku.dk/english/research/fg/transkription/
XY Zhang (PhD student)
Completed her PhD in a record 2 years 11 months having pioneered the use of Dictyostelium as a model organism for DNA crosslink repair. She has now moved to the University of Oxford to complete a postgraduate Medical degree.
Franco Perrina (PhD student)
Completed his PhD in 2008 and has now returned to Italy to work in pharmaceuticals.
Wojtech Niedzwiedz (Post Doc)
Wojtech was a post doc in our lab from 2003-2007. He has now gone on to become a group leader at Oxford where he plans to continue his work on FA.
http://www.aicr.org.uk/2007Fellow-DrWojtekNiedzwiedz.stm
Georgina Mosedale (PhD student and Post Doc)
George was a PhD student and then a post doc in our lab from 2000- 2005. She is currently a postdoc in Prof. Ian Hickson's lab at Oxford.
Mark Johnson (Post Doc)
Mark Johnson was a postdoc with us from 2000 - 2004. He is currently a postdoc at the Babraham research institute.
Wu Meng Tan (PhD student)
Wu Meng was an MB PhD student in our lab from 2001 -2004. He returned to complete his medical training and is now a clinician in Singapore.
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