Research groups in the Department of Genetics
There is a brief introduction to the subject specialisms represented in the Department on our research overview page.
Some of our research groups work in more than one building, but are listed here under their 'main' building
Genetics Building
- Michael Ashburner [Emeritus Professor] - Genome Organization and Ontologies
- Damian Crowther - Molecular Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Viji Draviam - Principles of Chromosome Segregation & Consequences of Defective Segregation
- Christine Farr - Chromosome Biology
- FlyBase and Virtual Fly Brain - Databases of Drosophila Genes, Genomes and Neurones
- Ian Furner - Arabidopsis Molecular Genetics
- David Glover - Regulation of Mitosis and Meiosis
- Frank Jiggins - Host-Parasite Evolution and Genetics
- Yuu Kimata - Cell Cycle in Development and Differentiation
- Catherine Lindon - Cell Division and Proteolysis
- Alfonso Martinez Arias - Laboratory of the Structure and Function of Living Matter
- Cahir O'Kane - Drosophila Neuronal Cell Biology
- Steve Russell - Drosophila Genomics
- Aylwyn Scally - Evolutionary Genomics
- Marisa Segal - Cell Cycle Control of Spindle Morphogenesis in S. cerevisiae
- David Summers - Microbial Genetics and Plasmid Biology
- John Welch - Molecular Evolution
Cambridge Systems Biology Centre
- Boris Adryan - Computational and Genomics Approaches to Drosophila Transcriptional Regulation
- Gos Micklem - Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Steve Russell - entered under 'Genetics Building' - see above
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
- Julie Ahringer - Chromatin Regulation and Cell Polarity in C. elegans
- Daniel St. Johnston - mRNA Localisation and the Origin of Polarity in Drosophila
- Rafael Carazo Salas - Functional Genomics of Cell Morphogenesis
Interdisciplinary research by staff members
- Stem Cell Institute [Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias >> personal page]
- Physics of Living Matter [Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias]
- Cambridge Computational Biology Institute [Director: Dr Gos Micklem]
- Cambridge Neuroscience [Dr Cahir O'Kane >> personal page, Dr Damian Crowther >> personal page]
- Cambridge Synthetic Biology {Dr Gos Micklem]
The Research in Life Sciences page for the School of the Biological Sciences, and the research@cambridge section of the University of Cambridge website, both provide links to the interdisciplinary research initiatives which include Department members.
Affiliated Groups
- Nick Brown - Molecular Analysis of Morphogenesis [Gurdon Institute] : Nick is also a Principal Investigator in FlyBase
- Thomas Down - Transcription Informatics [Gurdon Institute]
- Benedicte Sanson - Development of the Embryonic Epithelium in Drosophila [Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience]
Other pages of Department members
These include work-related web pages of non-Group-leaders, and pages for former Group Leaders which are no longer updated
- Mike Majerus [no longer updated, but contains links to some of his past presentations]
- Don MacDonald [no longer updated]
- Liria Masuda-Nakagawa
- Fiona Watt - Moved to King's College London
Page updated 16 January 2013