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Jan. 2026: Welcome to Jen and Kim, who will be carrying out their Honours projects in our lab this semester!
Dec. 2025: We are recruiting a PhD student in mathematical modelling (application deadline 7 January 2026) - more details here
May 2025: We are recruiting a postdoc for experimental work investigating emergence of antibiotic resistance (application deadline 2 June) - more details here!
May 2025: Congratulations to Assunta and Kate for completing their Honours projects in our lab!
March 2025: Congratulations to Lucy for completing her PhD!
Dec. 2024: PhD opportunity starting Oct. 2025 - applications now open!
Oct. 2024: Welcome to new HPGH doctoral training programme students Trisha and Iris, who will be doing their first rotation projects with us
June 2024: Welcome back to Katie Hardwick, who is re-joining the lab as a research technician this summer
May 2024: New paper led by Lucy out now in PLoS Computational Biology!
May 2024: Congratulations to Amy and Ellie for completing their Honours projects!
Apr. 2024: Grace, Lucy and Helen attended the Microbiology Society annual conference in Edinburgh
Oct. 2023: We're hosting Lindi Wahl from Western University, Canada, for the Institute of Ecology and Evolution seminar (4 Oct.)
Apr. 2023: Pierre and Helen are giving talks at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (Ploen, Germany) workshop, "Modelling Resistance Evolution: Theoretical Methodology Symposium".
Apr. 2023: Grace is presenting her research at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference in Birmingham.
Feb. 2023: Welcome to Amalia Bogri, who is a visiting PhD student from the Technical University of Denmark, and Katie Hardwick, who is doing her Honours project in the lab this semester.

research group members outside Ashworth building — Research group members, Feb. 2024

Research group members — Group members out for lunch in March 2023 (L-R: Katie, Amalia, Pierre, Grace, Helen, Kiran). Photo courtesy of S. Wadhawan.

Sept.-Oct. 2022: More conferences! Lucy gave a talk at ECMTB and Pierre presented a poster at the "Microbial Communities" workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute.
Sept. 2022: Kiran presented her PhD work at the SPPIRIT symposium in Edinburgh - and won the poster prize! Congratulations!
Sept. 2022: Helen gave invited talks at a Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology workshop and at the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Evolutionary Rescue.
Aug. 2022: Summer conference time! Lucy attended ESEB and Helen attended ISME, both presenting posters.
May 2022: Welcome to Grace Taylor-Joyce, who joins us as a postdoc.
Apr. 2022: Lucy and Pierre presented posters at the Edinburgh AMR Forum poster day.
Mar. 2022: We held our first in-person lab retreat!
Feb. 2022: Now recruiting a postdoc! Apply by 14 March.
Feb. 2022: Helen is speaking in the Edinburgh AMR seminar series on 23 Feb.

Group photo at lunch — Lunch on our inaugural lab retreat, March 2022. (Photo credit: H. Langshaw)

Oct. 2021: A warm welcome to Kiran Wadhawan! Kiran is starting a PhD with us, co-supervised by Dr. Pedro Vale.
Sept. 2021: Helen is speaking (in person!) at the SEEM seminar series in Montpellier.
June 2021: Congrats to Lucy and Pierre for excellent first poster presentations on their PhD work at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, and to Lucy for winning a poster prize in the Population Dynamics subgroup!
May 2021: We are delighted to host Ben Kerr from the University of Washington as our virtual speaker for the IEB seminar on 19 May
Mar. 2021: Helen is a "virtual visitor" at the University of Toronto Ecology & Evolutionary Biology department
Jan. 2021: Helen, Lucy, and Pierre are attending the virtual IHP program "Ecology and co-evolution: from models to data and back"
Nov. 2020: Now advertising one PhD project for Oct. 2021 start (update Jan. 2021: applications now closed)
Nov. 2020: Helen spoke at this year's virtual Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Symposium (recordings now available)
Oct. 2020: Welcome to new PhD students Lucy Lansch-Justen and Pierre Lafont!

Kiran at her poster — Kiran presenting her poster at the SPPIRIT symposium 2022

Group members with a life-size cardboard cut-out of Darwin — Helen and Pierre with cardboard Darwin at the MPI Ploen, April 2023

Lucy and Pierre presenting posters at the Edinburgh AMR Forum poster day, April 2022

Our first post-lockdown group meeting, April 2021

research group photo on Zoom — Virtual group meetings, 2020-21

This article was published on Monday 17 June 2024