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Department of Genetics

 
Julie Ahringer
Professor of Genetics and Genomics
Director, Gurdon Institute
Areas of Interest: 
Control of Chromatin Structure and Function
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Areas of Interest: 
Marine transmissible cancers
Kate Baker
Professor of Infectious Disease
Areas of Interest: 
Pathogen evolution and epidemiology
Michael Boemo
Assistant Professor of AI and Disease Department of Pathology and Department of Genetics
Areas of Interest: 
Computational Biology, AI, Genomic Instability
Alex Cagan
University Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Department of Pathology and Department of Vet Medicine
Areas of Interest: 
Somatic Evolutionary Genomic
Matt Castle
Head of Research Informatics Training
Teaching Professor of Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics
Areas of Interest: 
Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Data Science and Epidemiological Modelling
Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow
Areas of Interest: 
Developmental patterning systems and their evolution
Rosana Collepardo
Professor of Computational and Molecular Biophysics, Departments of Genetics and Chemistry
Areas of Interest: 
Computational Physics of Chromatin
Affiliated Professor
Richard Durbin
Al Kindi Professor of Genetics
Areas of Interest: 
Evolutionary and Computational Genomics
Christine Farr
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching)
University Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: 
Chromosome Biology
Anne Ferguson-Smith
Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics
Areas of Interest: 
Epigenetic control of development and genome function
Paul Filcek
Honorary Professor of Genomics and Computational Biology
Ben Hall
Affiliated Lecturer
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, UCL
Areas of Interest: 
Computational modelling of cancer and aging
Antoine Hocher
Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow
Areas of Interest: 
Synthetic chromatin and molecular mimicry
Charlotte Houldcroft
Assistant Professor
Frank Jiggins
Professor of Evolutionary Genetics
Areas of Interest: 
Host-Parasite Evolution and Genetics
Felipe Karam Teixeira
University Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: 
Germline Stem Cell Biology and Control
Heather Machado
CRUK Career Development Fellow, Department of Pathology
Areas of Interest: 
Somatic evolution and Cancer immunology
Gos Micklem
Professor of Computational and Molecular Biology
Areas of Interest: 
Bioinformatics and Genomics
Edwige Moyroud
Group Leader, Sainsbury Laboratory
Areas of Interest: 
Development and evolution of petal patterning
Cahir O'Kane
Professor of Genetics
Areas of Interest: 
Drosophila neuronal cell biology and disease
Alberto Rosello-Diez
University Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: 
Regulation of limb growth and body proportions.
Steve Russell
Head of Department
Professor of Genome Biology
Areas of Interest: 
Drosophila genomics
Henrik Salje
Professor of Disease Ecology
Areas of Interest: 
Infectious disease dynamics
Ritwick Sawarkar
MRC Investigator, MRC Toxicology Unit
Areas of Interest: 
Chromatin control of environmental stress response
Aylwyn Scally
University Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: 
Evolutionary genomics
Marisa Segal
University Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: 
Cell cycle control of spindle morphogenesis in budding yeast
Daniel St Johnston
Professor of Developmental Genetics
Group Leader, Gurdon Institute
Areas of Interest: 
mRNA Localisation and the origin of polarity in Drosophila
Ben Steventon
Professor of Developmental Biology
Areas of Interest: 
Developmental biology
Renske Vroomans
Gatsby Career Development Fellow, Sainsbury Laboratory
Areas of Interest: 
Computational evolution of plant development
John Welch
University Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: 
Molecular evolution
Eske Willerslev
Research Professor
Ashraf Zarkan
Transition to Independence (TTI) Fellow
Areas of Interest: 
Microbial genetics
Antimicrobial resistance