Current members
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Antonio Casablanca
PhD student (2024-) MEng in Bioengineering Final Year Project student (2023-24) |
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Sibi Verghese
Plant care manager (2023-) |
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Sam Mason
PhD student (2022-) MEng in Bioengineering, University of Sheffield (2022) |
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Dhanya Radhakrishnan
Postdoctoral research associate (2022-) PhD in Biology, IISER-TVM, India (2021) |
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Oliver Hernandez Fernandez
MRes student > PhD student (2021-) (Co-supervised by Prof Tom Ellis and Dr Vahid Shahrezaei) MRes in System and Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London |
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Naomi Nakayama
Principal investigator/group leader (2013-) Royal Society University Research Fellow (2015-2024) University of Edinburgh Chancellor's Fellow (2013-2018) PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, USA (2006) www.imperial.ac.uk/people/n.nakayama Twitter: @nakayama_naomi |
Past members
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Alice Malivert
Postdoc / Schmidt AI for Science Postdoc Fellow (2023-2025) Now a permanent researcher at CIRAD, France PhD in Biology, Ecole Normale Superieule de Lyon |
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(Elif) Gediz Kocaoglan
PhD student (2020-2024) Now postdoc in Jose Dinneny's Lab at Stanford, USA MSc in Biotechnology, University of Edinburgh, UK (2018) |
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Faquihah Said
MEng in Bioengineering Final Year Project student (2023-24) |
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Chun Tang
MEng in Bioengineering Final Year Project student (2023-24) |
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Thien Son Vu
MPhil student (2022-2023) MSc, University of Tokyo (2020) |
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Ritesh Ghosh
Postdoctoral / Royal Society Newton International Fellow (2021-23) PhD in Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, South Korea Now a technical manager at Durham University |
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Kyle Jonsson
MRes in System and Synthetic Biology Project student (2022-23) Now PhD student at UCL |
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Xintao Yan
MSc in Bioengineering Project student (2022-23) |
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Loubaba El Ayoubi
MEng in Molecular Engineering Final Year Project student (2022-23) |
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Daniella Arnal
MEng in Molecular Engineering Final Year Project student (2022-23) |
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Tara Wight
PhD student (2017-2022) (co-supervised by Prof Karen Halliday, Dr Ann Bruce, Prof Alan Raybould) MRes in Biology, Durham University, UK (2017) |
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Alessandro Serafini
MEng in Biomedical Engineering Final Year Project student (2021-22) (Co-supervised by Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro) |
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Tsung-Yen Johnson Lee
MEng in Molecular Engineering Final Year Project student (2021-22) Now PhD student at Queen Mary University. |
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Shida Oscar Chen
MEng in Molecular Engineering Final Year Project student (2021-22) Now PhD student in Hong Kong |
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Yik Ting Chan
MEng in Molecular Engineering Final Year Project student (2021-22) |
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Nathanael Tan
MEng Final Year Project student > Research Assistant (2020-2021) MEng in Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London Now a MRes student in Bristol Mechanical Ecology group at University of Bristol. |
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Rahel Ohlendorf
MSc in Bioengineering project student (2021) |
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Mingxu Leo Zhao
MSc in Bioengineering project student (2021) |
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Sabrina Lim
MEng in Biomedical Engineering Final Year Project student (2020-21) |
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Elisabeth Bavorova
MRes student in Systems and Synthetic Biology (2020) (Co-supervised by Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro) Now a PhD student in Patrik Jones' Lab, Imperial College London |
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Jessica Nirkko
PhD student (2017-) BSc in Biotechnology, University of Edinburgh, UK (2017) Now in Gary Loake's Lab, University of Edinburgh |
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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) Then Leverhulme Early Career Development Fellow at University of Oxford Now Associate Editor at Science (AAAS) |
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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 |
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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) |
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Fay Walsh
Honours Project student from the Plant Sciences programme at the University of Edinburgh (2019) Now a PhD student at University of Leeds |
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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) |
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Erika Kroll
Undergraduate intern/research assistant (2017-18) Now a PhD student at Rothamsted Research |
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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) |
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Marisol Ochoa-Villareal
Research assistant (2017-2018) Now a research associate in the Gary Loake's group, University of Edinburgh |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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Nahuel Manzanaro Moreno
MSc student in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh (2016) Now a PhD student in Peter Swain's lab |
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Qiling Chen
MSc student in Biotechnology at University of Edinburgh (2016) |
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Madeleine 'Maddi' Carter
Honours Project student from the Molecular Genetics programme at University of Edinburgh (2016) |
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Patricia Tan
Honours Project student from the Biotechnology programme at University of Edinburgh (2016) |
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Efrain Zarazua-Arvizu
MSc student in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology at University of Edinburgh (2015) Now a PhD student in the Jon Marles-Wright's Lab |
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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 |
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John 'Tim' Fisher
MSc student in Bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh (2015) (co-supervised by Dr Justin Goodrich) |
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Vasilis Andresou
Research assistant (2014-2015) |
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Kathryn Grant
PhD student (2014-2015) Now a PhD student in the Hoad Group at SRUC |
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Sohrab Noshirwani
Mechanical Engineering summer intern (2014) |
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Zi Hao 'Jason' Shen
BEng in Mechanical Engineering Final-year/honours project student (2015) Bioengineering summer intern (2014) Now a MSc student in Bioengineering at Imperial College London |
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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
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Claire Lallemand
Visiting student from Ecole Normale Superieure de Chimie de Mullhouse (ENSCMu), France (2018) |
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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 |
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Vaidurya Sahi
Visiting postdoc from the group of Dr Katerina Schwarzerova, Charles University in Prague, Czech (2015) |
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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 |
