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…
Miguel Angel Ortiz
Miguel Angel is a post-doctoral researcher interested in cell competition and human developmental biology. He completed his Ph.D. at Rice University, studying WNT and NODAL signaling dynamics for cell fate decisions in micropatterned pluripotent stem cell colonies.…
Alumni
Aly Makhlouf
Former PhD student. Post-doc at the LMB
Melinda Van Kerckvoorde
Former visiting student. Associate consultant at Scendea
Lucy Carter
Former Part II student. PhD student at King’s College London