Lab Members
Destinations of former Brand Lab members
Former Post Doctoral Fellows
Oriol Llora-Batlle, PhD (2022)
Team Lead External R&D Alliances, Single Cell Discoveries, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Thomas Genais, PhD (2022)
AFPA Toulouse, France
Neha Agrawal, PhD (2021)
Group Leader, Lecturer in Molecular Genetics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jelle van den Ameele, PhD (2020)
Group Leader, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
Robert Krautz, PhD (2019)
Post Doctoral Research, The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Takumi Suzuki, PhD (2019)
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki, Japan
Abhijit Das, PhD (2017)
Assistant Professor, School of Bio Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Elizabeth Caygill, PhD (2016)
New Zealand Graduate School of Education, Christchurch, New Zealand
Owen Marshall, PhD (2016)
Senior Research Fellow (Group Leader), Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Katrina Gold, PhD (2016)
Science Portfolio Adviser, Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Pauline Spéder, PhD (2015)
Group Leader, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Josephine Bageritz, PhD (2015)
Post Doctoral Research, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Paul Fox, PhD (2015)
Senior Scientist, Abbvie Biotechnology, Barceloneta, Puerto Rico
Tony Southall, PhD (2014)
Lecturer in Neurogenetics, Imperial College, London, UK
David Doupe, PhD (2013)
HFSP Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Boris Egger, PhD (2011)
Lecturer, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Anne Pelissier-Monier, PhD (2010)
Assistant Professor, CBD, Toulouse, France
Karin Edoff, PhD (2009)
Senior Researcher, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Ugo Mayor, PhD (2008)
Group Leader, CIC BioGUNE, Bizkaia, Spain
David Elliott, PhD (2007)
Group Leader, Cardiac Development, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Michael Murray, PhD (2003)
Lab Head, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Australia
Torsten Bossing, PhD (2008)
Senior Research Fellow, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, UK
Ulrik John, PhD (1999)
Statewide Leader, Primary Industries Victorian Agri-Biosciences Centre, Victoria, Australia; Senior Research Scientist, Victorian Department of Primary Industries, Melbourne, Australia
Alicia Hidalgo, PhD (1997)
Reader in Developmental Neurobiology, University of Birmingham, UK
Former Research Staff
Amy Foreman, PhD (2022)
Scientific Programme Manager, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
Rebecca Yakob, PhD (2022)
Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
Melanie Cranston (2016)
Research Assistant, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Former Graduate Students
Maire Brace, PhD MD (2023) Final year medical Student at University of Cambridge, UK
Leia Judge, PhD (2023) Scientific Editor at Cell Press Multi-Journal Submission, London, UK
Diana Arman, PhD (2023)
Tara Srinivas, MPhil (2021) Fulbright Fellow, Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Spain
Benjamin Badger, PhD (2020) Data Scientist Consultant, Guidehouse, North Carolina, USA
Anna Hakes, PhD (2020) Post Doctoral Research, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Stephanie Norwood, PhD (2019)
Public Engagement Officer, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
Mo Zhao, PhD (2019)
6 Dimensions Capital, Shanghai, China
Leo Otsuki, PhD (2018)
Post Doctoral Research, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
Seth Cheetham, PhD (2017)
Post Doctoral Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Janina Ander, PhD (2017)
Raspberry Pi, Cambridge, UK
Jack Etheredge, PhD (2017)
Post Doctoral Research, Janelia Research Campus, USA
Chloe Shard, PhD (2016)
Post Doctoral Research, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Jun Liu, PhD (2014)
Medical Student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Esteban Contreras, PhD (2014)
Post Doctoral Research, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Jorge Buendia Buendia, MPhil (2013)
Associate Computational Biologist, Broad Institute, Harvard University, Boston, USA
Katrina Gold, PhD (2011)
Post Doctoral Research, UCSF, San Francisco, USA; Science Portfolio Adviser, Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Clare Howard, MPhil (2011)
MD/PhD Programme, Columbia University, NY, USA
Alyson Thompson, PhD (2011)
Consultant, Bain and Company, London, UK
Paul Wu, MD PhD (2010)
Resident, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan; Assistant Professor, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Jakob von Trotha, PhD (2010)
Post Doctoral Research, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Post Doctoral Research, Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany
James Chell, PhD (2008)
Post Doctoral Research, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
James Dods, PhD (2008)
Global Partnerships Manager, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
Adrian Carr, PhD (2006)
Post Doctoral Research, University of Cambridge, UK; Bioinformatics Team Leader, Fios Genomics, Edinburgh, UK
John Solly, PhD (2006)
Director, Myrovlytis Trust Medical Research Charity, London, UK
Catherine French, PhD (2006)
Deloitte and Touche, London, UK
Semil Choksi, PhD (2005)
Post Doctoral Research, IMCB, Singapore; Visiting Scientist, UCSF, San Francisco, USA
Michael Hewett, PhD (2005)
Deloitte and Touche, London, UK
Monique Gupta, MPhil MD (2005)
Washington University Medical School, MO, USA
Vaishnavi Krishnan, PhD (2004)
Post Doctoral Research, Chennai, India; Research Scientist, Clonexpress, Washington D.C., USA
Claudia Barros, PhD (2003)
Post Doctoral Research, Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA; Research Fellow in Neurobiology, Bangor University, UK; Lecturer in Neuroscience, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry
Peter van Roessel, PhD MD (2002)
Stanford University Medical School, CA, USA; Columbia University Medical School, NY, USA; Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Julia Kaltschmidt, PhD (2001)
Post Doctoral Research, Columbia University, NY, USA; Group Leader, Sloan-Kettering Institute and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, USA
Leslie Manace, MPhil MD (2001)
Mount Sinai Medical School, NY, USA
Chris Phelps, PhD (2000)
Principal Scientist, Inpharmatica, London, UK; Director of New Product Development, IMS Health, Bournemouth, UK
Neil Hayward, PhD (2000)
Director, Abcam, Cambridge, USA; Founder, Cambridge Blue Consulting, Biotechnology, Boston, USA
Alison Schuldt, PhD (1998)
Senior Editor, Nature Cell Biology; Chief Editor, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology; Research Project Manager, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, UK
Emma Louise Dormand, PhD MD (1997)
Post Doctoral Research, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA; Clinical School, Oxford University, UK; Radiologist, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK