Suyang Zhang
Group Leader
Suyang obtained her BSc. in biochemistry and MSc. in structural biology at ETH Zurich in 2014. Her Master thesis in Prof. Nenad Ban’s lab involved in determining crystal structures of the eukaryotic translation initiation complex. She completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr. David Barford at the LMB in 2018, where she focused on the mechanism of activation and substrate recognition of the anaphase promoting complex during the cell cycle. She was an EMBO long-term fellow in the group Prof. Patrick Cramer at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, where she began to elucidate the mechanism of co-transcriptional splicing. In summer 2022, she returned to the LMB to establish her own lab.
Suyang was awarded the Max Perutz Prize, the Gates Cambridge scholarship, the Böhringer Ingelheim Fellowship and the EMBO longterm fellowship.
Luojia (Helen) Zhang
PhD student
Helen obtained her BSc. in biochemistry at Imperial College in 2022. She worked as a summer student in Dr. Harry Low’s lab on the bacterial secretion system. Helen joined our lab as a PhD student in 2022.
Yuliya Gordiyenko
Senior scientist/Lab manager
Yuliya obtained her PhD in biophysics at Kharkiv State University in Ukraine. During her postdoc stay at the University of Manchester, University of Cambridge and in Prof. Carol Robinson’s lab at the University of Oxford, Yuliya had extensive research experience in translation. She became a research support officer in Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan’s lab at the LMB in 2013 and joined our lab in 2023.
Pei Wang
Postdoctoral scientist
Pei obtained her PhD at Tsinghua University under the supervision of Prof. Haitao Li, where she studied diverse modes of H3K36me3-guided nucleosomal deacetylation by Rpd3S using cryoEM and biochemistry. Pei joined our lab as a postdoctoral scientist in 2024.
Jack Bowden
PhD student
Jack obtained his MSc. in biochemistry at the University of Bristol, where he worked in Prof. Imre Berger’s lab on the transcription. Jack joined our lab as a PhD student in 2024.
Alumni
David Proudlove
David studies biochemistry at the University of Oxford. He joined our lab as a summer student in 2024.
Gloria Amor Arroyo
Gloria studies Biomedicine at the University of Bristol and joined our lab in 2023 as a summer student.
Jacquie Mills
Jacquie studies Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She joined our lab in 2022 for a part III project (Master thesis). Jacquie will move on to do a PhD in cancer biology in Glasgow.
Alonso Pardal
Alonso obtained his PhD and worked as a postdoc at the University of Warwick. He joined our lab as a postdoc in 2023.