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Department of Zoology

 

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 Bhavna Chanana

 

Bhavna is now a Consultant at a boutique life sciences consulting firm that advises executives and investors in the pharmaceutical industry. She provides decision-making support at the asset, franchise, and corporate level on a broad range of issues, including market opportunity assessment, life cycle management, and portfolio optimization strategy. 

 
 

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.

 
 

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

 
 

Ng Bing Fu

 

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

 
 

Pedro Saavedra

 

Pedro was a PhD student shared with the lab of Dr. Peter Lawrence. His area of research was cell polarity during oogenesis. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Stephen Cohen.

 
 

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.

 
 

Lucy Williams

  Lucy is now a UK and European patent attorney. She helps inventors protect their biotechnology inventions by drafting and prosecuting biotech patent applications at the UK and European patent offices.
 
 

Alexis L. Braun

 

Alexis was a PhD student in the lab that finished in the autumn of 2015. She worked on epithelial patterning and body plan mapping in the Drosophila egg chamber. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Dr. Yuu Kimata, where she has taken the knowledge she gained in Developmental Biology and CRISPR, and applied it to a new project integrating cell cycle.