​Current members

Jessica Nirkko

PhD student (2017-)

BSc in Biotechnology, University of Edinburgh, UK (2017)
Tara Wight 

PhD student (2017-)

MRes, Durham University, UK (2017)
Madeleine 'Maddy' Seale
​(co-affiliated with the Mastropaolo Group at the Scottish Microelectronic Centre)

​Postdoc (2016-2018)

PhD in Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK (2016)

Now a Leverhulme Early Career Development Fellow at University of Oxford
​
Cathal Cummins
​(co-affiliated with the Fluid Dynamics Research Lab)

Postdoc (2016-2019)

​PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Limerick, Ireland (2015)

Now a Lecturer at Heriot-Watt University
​https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/persons/cathal-cummins
Andreas Andreou (a.k.a. Antreas Antreou)

PhD student (2015-)
Research assistant (2014-2015)

MSc in Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK (2014)
Naomi Nakayama 

​Principal investigator/group leader

​Royal Society University Research Fellow (2015-)
​University of Edinburgh Chancellor's Fellow (2013-2018)

PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, USA (2006)
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Past members

Fay Walsh

Honours Project student  from the Plant Sciences programme (2019)
​
Eric Thorand
​(co-supervised by Dr Teuta Pilizota)

PhD student (2014-2018)

MSc in Theoretical Mechanical Engineering (Material Science and Biophysics), Hamburg University of Technology, Germany  (2014)
​Claire Lallemand

Visiting student from Ecole Normale Superieure de Chimie de Mullhouse (ENSCMu), France (2018)
Erika Kroll

Undergraduate research assistant (2017-2018)
​Class of 2020

Kim Truong 

Research student from the MRes Biomedical Sciences programme (2018)​
Christopher McCully

Honours student from the Development and Stem Cell programme (2018)
Marisol Ochoa-Villareal

Research assistant (2017-2018)

Now a postdoc in the Loake group
Kate Mackie 

Honours Project student from the Molecular Genetics programme (2017)
​
Elaine Ford

Honours Project student from the Evolution and Ecology programme (2017)
Livia Scorza

Postdoc (2016-2017)

PhD in Plant Biology, University of Campinas, Brazil (2015)

Now a research associate in the McCormick Lab 
Cam tu Nguyen phan

Research assistant/associate (2014-2016)
​
PhD in Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK (2015)

Now a research associate at the University of Glasgow, UK 
Nahuel Manzanaro Moreno

MSc student in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (2016)
​
Now a PhD student in the Swain lab 
Qiling Chen

MSc student in Biotechnology (2016)
Madeleine 'Maddi' Carter

​Honours Project student from the Molecular Genetics programme (2016)
Patricia Tan

Honours Project student from the Biotechnology programme (2016)
Efrain Zarazua-Arvizu

MSc student in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (2015)

Now PhD student in the Marles-Wright Lab
Zongfan Yang 

MSc student in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology (2015)

Now PhD student at the School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol
John 'Tim' Fisher (co-supervised by Dr Justin Goodrich)

MSc student in Bioinformatics (2015)
Vasilis Andresou

Research assistant (2014-2015)
Kathryn Grant

PhD student (2014-2015)

Now PhD student in the Hoad Group at SRUC 
Sohrab Noshirwani

Mechanical Engineering summer intern (2014)
Zi Hao 'Jason' Shen

Final-year/honours project student (2015)
Bioengineering summer intern (2014) 

Now MSc student in Bioengineering at Imperial College London
Christopher Jonkergouw

MSc student in Biotechnology (2014)

Now PhD student in Synthetic Biology at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Visitors
Corentin Mollier

Visiting MSc student from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France (2016)
Vaidurya Sahi

Visiting postdoc from the group of Dr Katerina Schwarzerova, Charles University in Prague, Czech (2015)
Valeria Hernandez-Hernandez

Visiting MSc student from the group of Dr Mariana Benitez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2015)

Now PhD student in the Biophysics group in the RDP Lab at the ENS de Lyon, France


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