Our Team
Rob Beagrie
Group Head
Rob studied Biochemistry at Cambridge University, then did his doctoral research with Prof. Ana Pombo at Imperial College and the Max Delbruck Centre in Berlin. Rob was then awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship to move to the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and work with Prof. Doug Higgs on gene expression in early red blood cell differentiation. He joined the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics as a new Group Leader in April 2022, supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship from Wellcome and the Royal Society.
Ana Dopico-Fernandez
DPhil Student
Ana studied Biotechnology at UCL and then did an MPhil in Genetics at Cambridge University. She is currently carrying out her PhD on cancer epigenetics under the supervision of Tom Milne and Rob Beagrie.
Kiera Mordue
Undergraduate Intern
Kiera is an undergraduate student at the University of Aberdeen studying Medical Sciences (Genetics), and is currently undertaking a year-long placement between her third and fifth year of study. She is working with mouse embryos to understand whether mutant cells in somatic mosaic conditions are biased towards a particular cell type during early development.
Ramy Slama
DPhil Student
Ramy is a DPhil student in Adam Mead’s group investigating the effects of mutations in epigenetic regulators on the clonal evolution of haematopoietic stem cells in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms. He intends to utilise single-cell multi-omics techniques to discern phenotypic heterogeneities and elucidate mechanisms of fitness advantages in this rare cell population. The aim of this research is to potentially uncover targetable pathways or processes of interest that could help inform better patient treatment and future novel therapies.
Carol Sun
DPhil Student
Carol studied Systems Biology at Cambridge University, and is currently a Dphil student studying Interdisciplinary Biosciences DTP in partnership with Novo Nordisk. Her project centres around adipocyte development, enhancer biology and CRISPR technologies.
Lut Fei (Phoebe) Tam
Postdoctoral Researcher & Croucher Fellow
Phoebe received her BSc in Biochemistry and Cell Biology with double minors in Bioengineering and Humanities from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She subsequently pursued her MPhil and PhD study at the same institution, focusing on the interplay of histone modifications and genome architecture in disease and development under the guidance of Dr. Danny Leung. Phoebe is currently engaged in research on chromatin structure in developmental abnormalities with the support of the Croucher Fellowship.
Alumni
Tatevik Jalatyan
Bioinformatician
Rosa Stolper
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jennifer Herrmann
DPhil Student