​Current members
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Elisabeth Bavorova 
MRes student in Systems and Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London (2020)
(co-supervised by Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro)
(Elif) Gediz Kocaoglan
PhD student (2020-)

MSc in Biotechnology, University of Edinburgh, UK (2018)
Jessica Nirkko
PhD student (2017-)
(co-supervised by Prof Gary Loake)

BSc in Biotechnology, University of Edinburgh, UK (2017)
Tara Wight 
PhD student (2017-)
(co-supervised by Prof Karen Halliday)

MRes, Durham University, UK (2017)
Naomi Nakayama 
​Principal investigator/group leader (2013-)
​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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www.imperial.ac.uk/people/n.nakayama
Twitter: @nakayama_naomi

Past members
​
Madeleine 'Maddy' Seale
​Postdoc (2016-2018) 
(co-affiliated with the Mastropaolo Group at the Scottish Microelectronic Centre)

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

Now a Leverhulme Early Career Development Fellow at University of Oxford
www.plants.ox.ac.uk/people/madeleine-seale
Cathal Cummins
​Postdoc (2016-2019) 
​(co-affiliated with the Fluid Dynamics Research Lab)

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

Now a Lecturer at Heriot-Watt University
​researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/persons/cathal-cummins 
Andreas Andreou (a.k.a. Antreas Antreou)
PhD student (2015-2019)
Research assistant (2014-2015)

MSc in Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK (2014)
Fay Walsh
Honours Project student  from the Plant Sciences programme at the University of Edinburgh (2019)

​Now a PhD student at University of Leeds 
Eric Thorand
PhD student (2014-2018)​​
(co-supervised by Dr Teuta Pilizota)

MSc in Theoretical Mechanical Engineering (Material Science and Biophysics), Hamburg University of Technology, Germany  (2014)
​Erika Kroll
Undergraduate intern/research assistant (2017-18)
​
Now a PhD student at Rothamsted Research 
Kim Truong 
Research student from the MRes Biomedical Sciences programme at University of Edinburgh (2018)​
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Christopher McCully

Honours Project student from the Development and Stem Cell programme at University of Edinburgh (2018)
Marisol Ochoa-Villareal

Research assistant (2017-2018)

Now a research associate in the Loake group, University of Edinburgh
Kate Mackie 
Honours Project student from the Molecular Genetics programme at the University of Edinburgh (2017)
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Elaine Ford
Honours Project student from the Evolution and Ecology programme at the University of Edinburgh (2017)
Livia Scorza
Postdoc (2016-2017)

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

Now a research associate in the McCormick Lab, University of Edinburgh​ 
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 at the University of Edinburgh (2016)
​
Now a PhD student in the Swain lab 
Qiling Chen
MSc student in Biotechnology at University of Edinburgh (2016)
Madeleine 'Maddi' Carter
​Honours Project student from the Molecular Genetics programme at University of Edinburgh (2016)
Patricia Tan
Honours Project student from the Biotechnology programme at University of Edinburgh (2016)
Efrain Zarazua-Arvizu
MSc student in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology at University of Edinburgh​ (2015)

Now a PhD student in the Marles-Wright Lab
Zongfan Yang 
MSc student in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology at University of Edinburgh (2015)

Now a PhD student at the School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol
John 'Tim' Fisher
MSc student in Bioinformatics  at the University of Edinburgh (2015)
​(co-supervised by Dr Justin Goodrich)
Vasilis Andresou
Research assistant (2014-2015)
Kathryn Grant
PhD student (2014-2015) 
​
Now a 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 a MSc student in Bioengineering at Imperial College London
Christopher Jonkergouw
MSc student in Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh (2014)

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

Visitors
​

​​Claire Lallemand
Visiting student from Ecole Normale Superieure de Chimie de Mullhouse (ENSCMu), France (2018)
Corentin Mollier

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

Now a PhD student in the Biophysics group at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
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 at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France


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