Future

If you're interested in working with us, please get in touch.

If you're looking for a PhD, then send an email with your CV and few lines that explain your background and interests in science, and any research experience you have.

Current

• Darren Obbard (Group Leader)
• Pankaj Dhakad (PhD student)
• Manas Geeta Arun (Post Doc, Joint with Jarrod Hadfield)
• Ali Somerville (PhD Student)
• Muhammad Adnan (PhD Student)
• Rashidatu Abdulazeez (Newton Fellow)

Past PhD Students, PostDocs, Research Assistants, and Visitors

• Dhobasheni Newman (Technican 2021-2024)
     Then a technican in the Institute for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
• Yiguan Wang (Post Doc 2020-2023)
     Then a postdoc at the CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Plant Science
• Oumie Kuyateh (PhD Student 2019-2023) Thesis
     Then a Sanger Excellence Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute
• Olga Zawistowska (Technician June-November 2022)
• Dominik Kopcak (Technician May-July 2022)
• Fergal Waldron (Post Doc 2013-2016 & 2018-2021)
     Then a postdoc in Aberdeen
• Paul McNeil (Technician 2020-2021)
     Then a science teaching technician
• Megan Wallace (PhD Student 2016-2021) Thesis
     Then a post-doc with Ben Longdon
• Nathan Medd (PhD Student 2014-2018) Thesis
     Now a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
• 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 MSc student in Toronto, followed by a PhD in Edinburgh
• Giada Ferrari (Research Technician / Visitor, 2012)
     Then a PhD student in Zurich
• 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, BSc Honours, and summer Project Students

• Daryna Sizon (Genetics Society Summer Studentship 2025)
• Matt Carre (MSc Bioinformatics 2025)
• Ellie Walker (WT-HPGH MSc Rotation 2025)
• Vanessa Tang (BSc Hons student 2024)
• Anders Erlandson (Carnegie Summer Project 2024)
• Simon L'Heveder (BSc Hons student 2023)
• Benedict Smythe (BSc Hons student 2023)
• Fergus Paterson (Eastbio Summer Project 2023)
• Jessie Jungels (WT-HPGH MSc Rotation 2023)
• Kevin Kidambasi (WT-HPGH MSc Rotation 2022-23)
• Yuhan Zheng (MSc Biomedical Sciences, November 2021 - April 2022)
• Chaerin Yoon (Visiting Student 2021)
• Finlay McFarlane (BSc Hons student 2021)
• Ellen Hazelhurst (BSc Hons student 2020)
     Then an MSc student in Forensic Science
• Sanjana Ravindran (WT-HPGH MSc Rotation 2018-19)
     Then a PhD student in Edinburgh
• Tymek Pieszko (Summer Project 2019)
     Then a PhD student at the University of Oxford
• Sarah Coates (BSc Hons student 2019)
     Then a PhD student at the University of Bangor
• Beth Bader (Lab Experience 2015-2019)
     Then a research technician with Deborah Charlesworth
• Yvonne Clarke (Lab Experience 2018-2019)
• 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)
     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)
• 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

• Yiguan Wang (CAS CEMPS)
• Rashidatu Abdulazeez (Ahmadu Bello University)
• The DrosEU Consortium
• Bernard Kim and the Petrov Lab (Stanford)
• Ben Longdon (Exeter/Penryn)
• Jarrod Hadfield (Edinburgh)
• Jenny Regan (Edinburgh)
• Pedro Vale (Edinburgh)
• Ronald van Rij (Nijmegen)