Current Lab Members

Katja Röper, PhD
Group Leader
Twitter: @katjaroeper

Article in JCB ‘People&Ideas’: http://jcb.rupress.org/content/215/2/140?etoc

Gabriella Symons
PhD student since October 2020

Robert Turnbull, MPhil
PhD student since October 2020

Arnaud Ambrosini, PhD
Postdoc since July 2019

John-Poul Ng-Blichfeldt, PhD
Postdoc since August 2018

Former Lab Members

Annabel May, MPhil
PhD Student since July 2018- Dec 2022, then 11-months postdoc in the lab

now: Clinical scientist at NHS Birmingham

Ghislain Gillard, PhD
Postdoc since February 2017- February 2022

Now: postdoc at IGH Montpellier, France

Dina Ashour, PhD
PhD Student from July 2016 – June 2021, postdoc until February 2022

Now: working for European Commission in Brussels

Jesse Peterson, PhD
Postdoc: May 2017 – June 2021

Now: Scientist at Lightcast Discovery

Yara E. Sánchez-Corrales, PhD
Postdoc: April 2014-May 2020

Now: Research Fellow
Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children
Twitter: @DrYaraSanchez

Clara Sidor, PhD
Postdoc: March 2013 – Feb 2018
Now: CNRS fellow at IBDM, Marseille

Gemma Girdler, PhD
Postdoc: April 2010 – March 2017
Now: Postdoc at CI Cambridge

Farhaan Khan
Summer Student: June – August 2016
Then: Medical student at Cambridge

Konradin Müskens
Part II student: Oct 2015 – April 2016
Then: postgrad Medicine studies in Utrecht, Netherlands

Silvia Aldaz, PhD
Postdoc: from end of 2013 until Summer 2015, previously Freeman lab
Now: in Nick Brown’s lab at Gurdon Institute, Cambridge

Alex Booth, PhD
PhD student: October 2008 -September 2012, Postdoc October 2012-August 2013
Then: Postdoc, University of Dundee

Jonathan Lawson
Rotation student : April – June 2011
Then: PhD student at Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Now: PR at CRUK head quarters in London

Tomoki Otani
Part II student: October 2010 – April 2011
Then: PhD student at Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge

Claire Mestdagh
Erasmus exchange student: April – July 2010
Then: PhD student at IMB, Mainz, Germany

Arjun Jain
MPhil student: October 2007 – August 2008
Then: PhD student at University of Cambridge

Rob Johnson
Summer student: 2007
Then: student at University of Durham

Mary Pines
PhD student: October 2005 -February 2009
Then: Postdoc at UBC, Canada

Vanessa Maybeck
Research Assistant: October 2005 – April 2008
Then: Postdoc at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Now: PI at FZ Juelich