Isabel's group: People

Isabel is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, a Fellow of St John's College and head of the group.

Her research area is cell polarity and cell fate in the Drosophila female and male reproductive system: a Cell Biological and Biophysical approach

Tel: (01223) 767837
Email: mip22@hermes.cam.ac.uk

Alexis is a PhD student from Bella Coola, Canada. She is funded mostly from Canadian grants but also funded by the J S Gardiner Trust Fund, Department of Zoology. Her research area is the function of tumour suppressor pathways in the reproductive system.

Tel: (01223) 336655
Email: alb84@cam.ac.uk

Bhavna is a Postdoc in the lab. Her research area is the function of tumour suppressor pathways in the reproductive system.

Tel: (01223) 336655
Email: bc342@cam.ac.uk

Deepthy is the Senior Research Technician for the lab.

Tel: (01223) 336655
Email: df292@cam.ac.uk

Pedro is a Ph.D. student shared with the lab of Dr. Peter Lawrence. His area of research is cell polarity during oogenesis

Lucy is a PhD student from the Wellcome 4 year PhD programme in Developmental Biology. Her research area is the function of Kinesin-1.

Tel: (01223) 336655
Email: lsw23@cam.ac.uk

Bing Fu is an MPhil student sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Singapore. His area of research is the establishment of oocyte polarity during oogenesis.

Tel: (01223) 336655

Dr Ines Alvarez-Garcia

Ines was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab until April 2009. She is currently an assistant editor in the journal PLoS Biology.

Dr Paul Avery

Paul was a PhD student in the lab until 2010.He is currently a Life Science and Healthcare communications PR Account Manager at Alto Marketing.

Dr Philippe Loiseau

Philippe was a PhD student from the Wellcome 4 year PhD programme in Developmental Biology.  He is currently project officer in a biotechnology company focused on rapid screening and diagnostic of infectious diseases, located in Paris (www.genewave.com). Philippe manages R&D projects, coordinates european collaborations (FP7-Health projects) and is in charge of the patent portfolio.

Dr. Maruxa Martinez-Campos

Maruxa was a postdoctoral visitor in the lab. She is currently an assistant editor in the journal Genome Biology.

Dr Isabel Peset-Martin

Isabel is currently a postdoc at the CRI, Cambridge, UK

Fan Cheng

Fan was a summer student in 2006. He is currently a PhD student in Genetics, at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Joao Firmino

Joao was the lab technician and is now a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany

Anna Franz

Anna was a rotation student in the lab from the Wellcome 4 year PhD programme in Development Biology.
Email: af365@cam.ac.uk

Katrina Gold

Kat was a summer student in the lab in 2005. She is currently a student in the Wellcome 4 year PhD programme in Developmental Biology.

Nic J. Lehrbach

Nic was a rotation student in the lab in the spring 2006 from the Wellcome 4 year PhD programme in Developmental Biology.

Oxana Nashchekina

Oxana was the lab technician until October 2008. She is currently a Research Technician at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, UK

James Tollervey

James was the technician of the lab. He did a PhD at the LMB, Cambridge and is now a postdoc at the Buck Institute in USA.

Dr Marta Vicente Crespo

Marta was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab until December 2008. She then went to do a postdoc at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla. She is currently the Director of the Institute of Biomedical Research at Kampala International University (KIU) in Uganda.