Lab Members

Our team.

Principal Investigator

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Prof. Sander Granneman

Group Leader

Lab bioinformatician and doing this and doing that...

Current Lab Members

Ian Liddle

BBSRC-funded post-doc (2026 - present)

Post-doc working with the Granneman and Cockroft lab on developing new high-throughput sequencing methods.

Dina Nahhas

Medical Research Council post-doc (2025 - present)

Is working on mice, metabolomics and RNA.

 

Sara Pintar

Medical Research Council post-doc (2024 - present)

Is working on transcription factors, RNA and is doing structural biology!

 

Hong Duong Ngo

Darwin Trust PhD student (2024 - present)

Studies the dynamic binding of ribonucleases to RNA.

 

Toby Coombe-Tennant

iBioIC PhD student (2023 - present)

Studies RNA-binding proteins in Taxus

 

Gabriele Bagusinskaite

EASTBIO PhD student (2022 - present)

Is working on RNases and the dynamics of RNA decay in S. aureus.

 

Hugh McCaughan

Wellcome Trust ECAT PhD student (2019 - present)

Is working on RBPs and antibiotic resistance! Has also made a phenominal contribution to COVID-19 research!!!

Maxeen Major

Biological Sciences MRes student (2026 - present)

Is working on MRSA Ribonucleases and doing loads of cross-linking!!!!

Co-superviser

Joshua Mareschal

Wellcome Trust iCM Phd student

Shared with Chris Sibley lab. Is working on CLIP, 2C and neuronal cells!

Chris Sibley

 

Quang Huy Le

Wellcome Trust iCM Phd student

Shared with Matthew Schwaffer lab. Is working on RNA-binding proteins and cell size in yeast!

Matthew Schwaffer

Visitors

  • Theresa-Marie Froehlich - Visiting ERASMUS student from Tubingen Univerisity (2019 - 2020)
  • Erika Urdaneta - Visiting PhD student from Benedikt Beckmann's lab (2018). Funded by EMBO short-term fellowship.
  • Ross Cordiner - Visiting post-doctoral fellow from Torben Heick Jensen’s lab (2017 - 2018). Obtained EMBO and Marie Curie LTF fellowships!
  • Fredrik Lackmann - Visiting PhD student from Lars Wieslander's lab (2013 - 2014). Funded by EMBO short-term fellowship.

  • Mehak Chauhan (2021 - 2025) - Darwin Trust PhD student.
  • Sofia Esteban-Serna (2021 - 2025) - Wellcome Trust iCM PhD student. Now a post-doc at Harvard University
  • Wei Li (2021 - 2025) - Darwin Trust PhD student and Post-doc.
  • Magnus Gwynne (2020 - 2021) - Now PhD student in York studying non-coding RNAs.
  • Niki Christopoulou (2019 - 2024) - Now working for a SynBio company in Edinburgh.
  • Hanne Grosemans (2019 - 2021) - Now senior research assistant in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Pedro Arede Rei (2018 - 2023) - Now a research assistant in Little France.
  • Liangcui Chu (2018 - 2023) - Now a post-doc in Edinburgh focussing on bioinformatics.
  • Holly Kay (2018 - 2022) - Mad about plants and UV cross-linking.
  • Pujitha Raja (2018 - 2023) - UV cross-linking bugs that can cause nasty pneumonia!
  • Ivayla Ivanova (2018 - present) - Currently working as an editor at Developmental Cell.
  • Tove Widén (2018-2019) - Worked on RNA-binding proteins in yeast.
  • Thomas Mourant (2018) - Now doing an MSc in London.
  • Agata Wawszczyk (2017 - 2022) - Working on an awesome secretion system.
  • Stuart McKellar (2016-2020) - Now post-doctoral researcher in Hannah Mischo's lab at King's College London.
  • Jule Karen Nieken (2016 - 2017) - Now PhD student in Hiro Ohkura's lab.
  • Alina Selega (2015 - 2017) - Now a Post-doctoral researcher in Canada!
  • Ira Iosub (2014 - 2018) - Now post-doctoral researcher in Nick Luscombe's lab at the CRICK institute.
  • Rob van Nues (2014 - 2016) - Now Wellcome Trust Post-doctoral researcher in Liz Baynes’s lab.
  • Erica de Leau (2014 - present) - Now a technician in Justin Goodrich’s lab.
  • Christel Sirocchi (2014 - 2015) - Co-author on a Nature Methods paper!
  • Maarten Tuijtel (2013) - Now EM facility Manager in Edinburgh.
  • Elena Burlacu (2012 - 2016) - Post-doctoral researcher in Torben Heick Jensen's lab in Aarhus.
  • Alina Zaplatina (2012-2013) - Now PhD student in Cologne.
  • Matthew Pierce (2012) - Biotechnology honours student.
  • Stamatina Fragkogianni (2012) - Did her PhD in Edinburgh and is now a Post-doctoral fellow!
  • Ralph Hector (2011 - 2014) - Now a senior post-doctoral researcher in Edinburgh.

 

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