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 - Database of Drosophila Genes and Genomes
- 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 [Lab will be operational from 1 November 2011]
- 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
- Philip Oliver - Genetic Recombination
- Steve Russell - Drosophila 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 - Regulatory Networks of Cell Morphogenesis
Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research
- Fiona Watt - Epidermal Stem Cell Biology
Interdisciplinary research by staff members
- Physics of Living Matter - Website should shortly be available again
- Physics of Medicine [Director: Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias]
- Cambridge Computational Biology Institute [Director: Dr Gos Micklem]
- Cambridge Neuroscience
- Cambridge Synthetic Biology
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]
We also have a small number of personal pages not directly related to particular labs : These are currently for:
- Mike Majerus [no longer updated but contains links to some of his past presentations]
- Don MacDonald [no longer updated]
- George Gkoutos
- Liria Masuda-Nakagawa
Page updated 17 November 2011