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Current Lab Members

• Darren Obbard (Group Leader)
• Fergal Waldron (Post Doc)
• Megan Wallace (PhD student)
• Oumie Kuyateh (PhD student)
• Paul McNeil (Technician)

Past PhD Students, PostDocs, Research Assistants, and Visitors

• Nathan Medd (PhD Student 2014-2018) Thesis
     Then training and outreach manager for Edinburgh Genomics
• Billy Palmer (PhD Student 2014-2018) Thesis
     Then a Post Doc with Sara Cherry (UPenn)
• Seanna McTaggart (Post Doc 2012-2015)
     Then a research scientist at MRC Technology (Scotland)
• Sam Lewis (PhD student 2011-2015) Thesis
     Then a post-doc with Frank Jiggins
• Pedro Vale (Independent CIIE Research Fellow 2013-2014)
     Then a Chancellor's Research Fellow in Edinburgh
• Claire Webster (Research Assistant, 2008-2013)
     Worked at The National Bee Unit, then with Ted Morrow in sussex
• Daisy Crowson (Research Technician, 2012-2013)
     Then a PhD student with Spencer Barrett
• Giada Ferrari (Research Technician / Visitor, 2012)
     Then a PhD student in Zurich
• Paul Smith (PhD 2009-2012, c/o Tom Little) Thesis
     Then a research scientist at MRC Technology (Scotland)
• Ricardo Ramiro (PhD 2009-2012, c/o Sarah Reece) Thesis
     Then a post-doc with Isabel Gordo
• Shaun Robertson (Research Technician, 2012),
     Then a PhD student with Andrew MacColl
• Ben Longdon (PhD student 2008-2011) Thesis
     A post-doc (Jiggins Lab), then a Henry Dale Fellow (Exeter, mid 2016).

MSc Project students and BSc Honours Project Students

• Ellen Hazelhurst (BSc Hons student 2020)
• Sanjana Ravindran (WT-HPGH MSc Rotation 2018-19)
• Tymek Pieszko (Summer Project 2019)
• Sarah Coates (BSc Hons student 2019)
• Miranda Jarrett (Summer Project 2018)
• Spyros Lytras (Summer Project 2018)
     Then a PhD student at the University of Glasgow
• Alistair Greaves (BSc Hons student 2018)
• Oumie Kuyateh (WT-HPGH MSc Rotation 2017-18)
• Danang Crysnanto (MSc QGGA, Feb-August 2017),
     Then a PhD student at ETH in Zurich
• Cameron McNamara (BSc Hons student 2017)
     Then a PhD student at the University of Glasgow
• Naomi Letley (BSc Hons student 2017)
• Yin Yuen (MSc Biomedical Sciences, October 2016- March 2017)
• Chaoying Wang (MSc Bioinformatics, March-August 2016)
• Jamie Gorzynski (Genetics Society Summer Studentship 2016)
     Then the Edinburgh QGGA MSc followed by a PhD student at the Roslin Institute
• Iain Gordon (MSc Bioinformatics, March-August 2015)
• Ryan Imrie (Genetics Society Summer Studentship 2015)
     Then a PhD student at the University of Exeter
• Marianne McDonald (BSc Hons student 2015)
• Robin Morrison (BSc Hons student 2014)
     Then a PhD student at the University of Cambridge
• Jack Richard-Bollans (MSc Bioinformatics, March-August 2014),
     Then a PhD student at the IGMM
• Jean-Michel Brouqui (Polytech Clermont-Ferrand)
• Gareth Collier (BSc Hons student 2013)
• Andrew Mason (BSc Hons student 2013)
     Then a PhD student at Roslin
• Alex Skotnicki (MSc QGGA, June-August 2012)
• Gemma Murray (MSc QGGA, June-August 2011),
     PhD with John Welch, then Post-Doc with Beth Shapiro
• Emma Hodcroft (MSc QGGA, June-August 2010),
     PhD then Post-Doc with Andy Leigh Brown
• Luke Thomas (BSc Hons student 2009)
• Sebastian Rous (BSc Hons student 2008)
• Chris Burnett (BSc Hons student 2006)

Collaborators

• Jenny Regan (Edinburgh)
• Pedro Vale (Edinburgh)
• Frank Jiggins (Cambridge)
• Tom Little (Edinburgh)
• Dieter Ebert (Basel)
• Andrew Rambaut (Edinburgh)
• Ronald van Rij (Nijmegen)
• Jerry Cross (EMR)