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Marta Shahbazi

Marta is a group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. She did her PhD at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, working on how microtubules regulate cell-cell adhesion and stem cell identity in the epidermis.…

Nanami Satoh

Nanami is a postdoctoral researcher interested in cellular communication in developmental biology, working on lumenal signals in cell fate determination. She received her PhD in cell biology from Hokkaido University in Japan, where she studied cell competition…

Viviane Rosa

Viviane completed her PhD in 2019 in Cell Biology at University of Campinas – Brazil with an internship at the University of Cambridge. She used embryonic stem cells models to understand the early stages of mouse and…

Rina Sakata

Rina is a Ph.D. student interested in stem cell models, genetic circuits, and understanding the earliest cell fate decisions of the developing human embryo. Before joining the Shahbazi lab, she completed her Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering…

Luca Schwarz

Luca is a Ph.D. student studying aneuploidies in human embryos. He completed his MSci in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, where he used mouse embryonic stem cell models to characterise a chromatin remodelling mutation linked to…

Anfu Wang

Anfu is a Ph.D. student studying the mechanism of primordial germ cell specification in mouse embryos. He completed his MPhil in Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge, where he used chicken embryo to characterise the role…