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Institute of Cell Biology staff list

Head of Institute

Name Email Address Telephone
Professor David Finnegan David.Finnegan@ed.ac.uk +44 (0) 131 650 5377

Institute Secretary

Name Email Address Telephone
Julie Fyffe J.Fyffe@ed.ac.uk +44 (0) 131 650 5366

Building Manager

Name Email Address Telephone
George McMillan George.McMillan@ed.ac.uk +44 (0) 131 650 5438

Administrative Staff

Name Position Email Address Telephone
Louise Bishop Institute Secretary Louise.Bishop@ed.ac.uk +44 (0) 131 650 5366
Lara Crossland Public Engagement Group lara.crossland@ed.ac.uk
Alexandra Fraser Darwin Trust Secretary Alix.Fraser@ed.ac.uk +44 (0) 131 650 5382
Toni Jenkins Postgraduate Programme Administrator Toni.Jenkins@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 7366
Sarah Keer-Keer Outreach and Communication Manager skkeer@staffmail.ed.ac.uk +44 (0) 131 650 5384
Janet Paterson Public Engagement Group Janet.Paterson@ed.ac.uk
Heather Rea Public Engagement Group h.j.rea@ed.ac.uk
Susan Ryan Public Engagement Group sryan1@staffmail.ed.ac.uk +44 (0) 131 650 7042
Christine Struthers PA to Adrian Bird/Secretary for Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology Christine.Struthers@ed.ac.uk +44 (0) 131 650 5668
Karen Traill EU Adminstrator/Wellcome PhD Administrator Karen.Traill@ed.ac.uk +44 (0) 131 650 5933

Academic Staff and Principal Investigators

Name Research Interest Email Address
ALLSHIRE, Robin Professor Chromosome segregation: centromeric chromatin and kinetochore assembly Robin.Allshire@ed.ac.uk
ARULANANDAM, Jeyaprakash Dr Structural Biology of Cell Division Jeyaprakash.Arulanandam@ed.ac.uk
BAYNE, Elizabeth Dr Non-coding RNAs and chromatin modification in genome regulation elizabeth.bayne@ed.ac.uk
BEGGS, Jean Professor mRNA splicing and links to transcription jbeggs@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
BIRD, Adrian Professor Reading the DNA methylation signal A.Bird@ed.ac.uk
BLAKELY, Garry Dr Senior Lecturer Garry.Blakely@ed.ac.uk
BOWNES, Mary Professor Sex differentiation in Drosophila and oogenesis in Drosophila and mouse Mary.Bownes@ed.ac.uk
CAI, Patrick Yizhi Dr synthetic genomics; design automation; caiyizhi@gmail.com
EARNSHAW, Bill Professor Mitotic chromosome transactions Bill.Earnshaw@ed.ac.uk
EL KAROUI, Meriem Dr Chancellors Fellow and Reader Meriem.Elkaroui@ed.ac.uk
FINNEGAN, David Professor Transposable elements David.Finnegan@ed.ac.uk
FREE, Andrew Dr Microbial communities and their applications in biotechnology and medicine Andrew.Free@ed.ac.uk
FRENCH, Chris Dr Biosensors, biomass conversion, gene assembly C.French@ed.ac.uk
GALLAGHER, Maurice Dr Bacterial physiology and vaccine development MP.Gallagher@ed.ac.uk
GORYACHEV, Andrew Dr Spatial aspects of cell signalling Andrew.Goryachev@ed.ac.uk
HARDWICK, Kevin Dr Mitosis and the spindle checkpoint Kevin.Hardwick@ed.ac.uk
HORSFALL, Louise Dr Lectureship in Biotechnology Louise.Horsfall@ed.ac.uk
INTERTHAL, Heidrun Dr Repair of covalent protein-DNA complexes heidrun.interthal@ed.ac.uk
LEACH, David Professor Replication, Recombination and Genome Stability D.Leach@ed.ac.uk
MACLEOD, Donald Dr Donald.Macleod@ed.ac.uk
MAKOVETS, Svetlana MRC Fellowship smakovet@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
MARSTON, Adele Dr Mechanisms of chromosome segregation adele.marston@ed.ac.uk
MCQUEEN, Heather Dr Dosage compensation, epigenetics and sex determination H.McQueen@ed.ac.uk
OHKURA, Hiroyuki Professor Professor of Cell Biology H.Ohkura@ed.ac.uk
PILIZOTA, Teuta Dr Chancellor's Fellow Teuta.Pilizota@ed.ac.uk
RAPPSILBER, Juri Professor Protein organisation and composition of chromatin in normal and breast cancer cells juri.rappsilber@ed.ac.uk
READ, Nick Professor Hyphal growth and morphogenesis Nick.Read@ed.ac.uk
SAWIN, Kenneth Dr Microtubule organisation and cell polarity Ken.Sawin@ed.ac.uk
SCHIRMER, Eric Dr Influence of the nuclear envelope on cell differentiation and genome architecture E.Schirmer@ed.ac.uk
STANCHEVA, Irina Dr Epigenetic gene silencing in normal cells and cancer I.Stancheva@ed.ac.uk
TELFER, Evelyn Dr Ovarian development Evelyn.Telfer@ed.ac.uk
TOLLERVEY, David Professor RNA processing and degradation D.Tollervey@ed.ac.uk
WELBURN, Julie Dr Julie.Welburn@ed.ac.uk
WEST, Steven Dr WT Fellowship Steven.West@ed.ac.uk

Honorary and Visiting Staff

Name Position Email Address
Dr James Allan Honorary Fellow J.Allan@ed.ac.uk
Professor W D Donachie Professor Emeritus
Professor Lea Harrington Visiting Professor l.harrington@ed.ac.uk
Professor Brian J Kilbey Professor Emeritus
Dr John March Honorary Fellow John.March@bigdna.co.uk
Professor Kenneth Murray Professor Emeritus K.Murray@ed.ac.uk
Professor D S Saunders Professor Emeritus
Professor Ian W Sutherland Professor Emeritus
Professor Michael Tyers Visiting Professor m.tyers@ed.ac.uk
Dr Bruce Ward Honorary Fellow Bruce.Ward@ed.ac.uk

Research Staff

Name Group / Position Email Address
Dr Dariusz Abramczyk Beggs Group (Research Associate) dabramcz@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Ross Alexander Beggs Group Ross.Alexander@ed.ac.uk
Dr Bonnie Alver Research Associate balver@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Flavia Alves Rappsilber Group flavia.alves@ed.ac.uk
David Barrass Beggs Group David.Barrass@ed.ac.uk
Dr Dzmitry Batrakou Postdoctoral Research Associate D.Batrakou@ed.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth Bayne Research Fellow elizabeth.bayne@ed.ac.uk
Robin Beaven Postdoctoral Research Associate rbeaven@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Julie Blyth Marston Group Julie.Blyth@ed.ac.uk
Dr Daniel Booth Earnshaw Group (Post Doc) dbooth@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Manuel Breuer Ohkura Group mbreuer@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Kyla Brown Bird Group (ECAT Clinical Research Fellow) Kyla.Brown@ed.ac.uk
Alessia Buscaino Allshire Group Alessia.Buscaino@ed.ac.uk
Maria Carmena Earnshaw Group Mar.Carmena@ed.ac.uk
Zhuo Chen Rappsilber Group s0685440@sms.ed.ac.uk
Helene Cheval Bird Group helene.cheval@ed.ac.uk
Justyna Cholewa-Waclaw Bird Group (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) jcwaclaw@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Thomas Clouaire Bird Group thomas.clouaire@ed.ac.uk
Nathalie Colombie Ohkura Group ncolombi@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Olivier Cordin Beggs Group ocordin2@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Cronshaw Rappsilber Group Andrew.Cronshaw@ed.ac.uk
Fiona Cullen Ohkura Group F.Cullen@ed.ac.uk
Elise Darmon Leach Group Elise.Darmon@ed.ac.uk
Jose De Las Heras Stancheva Group J.delasHeras@ed.ac.uk
Dina De Sousa Bird Group d.desousa@ed.ac.uk
Jennifer Dorrens Harrington Group jennifer.dorrens@ed.ac.uk
Dr Tatiana Dudnakova Research Fellow tdudnako@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Eris Duro Marston Group Eris.Duro@ed.ac.uk
Aziz El-Hage Aziz.Elhage@ed.ac.uk
Josefin Fernius Marston Group josefin.fernius@ed.ac.uk
Lutz Fischer Rappsilber Group l.fischer@ed.ac.uk
Laura Gardano Harrington Group laura.gardano@ed.ac.uk
Katrina Gordon Stancheva Group K.Gordon@ed.ac.uk
Richard Grainger Beggs Group Richard.Grainger@ed.ac.uk
Jacqueline Guy Bird Group J.Guy@ed.ac.uk
Georgina Hamilton Allshire Group Georgina.Hamilton@ed.ac.uk
Aleksandra Helwak Tollervey Group ahelwak@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Rebecca Holmes Tollervey Group rholmes@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Steve Innocente Beggs Group steve.innocente@ed.ac.uk
Dr Alexander Kagansky Earnshaw Group Alexander.Kagansky@ed.ac.uk
Dr David Kelly WTC Microscopy Research manager dkelly2@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Sadie Kemp Stancheva Group Sadie.Kemp@ed.ac.uk
Dr Alastair Kerr WTC Bioinformatician Alastair.Kerr@ed.ac.uk
Martha Koerner Bird Group (Research Fellow) M.Koerner@ed.ac.uk
Grzegorz Kudla Tollervey Group gkudla@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Georg Kustatscher Post Doc georg.kustatscher@ed.ac.uk
Sabine Lagger Bird Group (Research Fellow) s.lagger@ed.ac.uk
Simon Lebaron Tollervey Group slebaron@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Marcin Leda Goryachev Group mleda@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Erwan Lejeune Allshire Group erwan.lejeune@ed.ac.uk
Chao Li Stancheva Group cli4@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Benjamin Loh Ohkura Group bloh@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Manuel Lopez-Vernaza Leach Group M.A.Lopez-Vernaza@sms.ed.ac.uk
Matthew Lyst Bird Group mlyst@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Vaso Makrantoni Postdoctoral Research Associate Vasso.Makrantoni@ed.ac.uk
Dr Stefan Mann Postdoctoral Research Associate Stefan.Mann@ed.ac.uk
Karen May Hardwick Group karen.may@ed.ac.uk
Marie McLaughlin McQueen Group mmclaug1@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Bethan Medina Research Assistant Bethan.Medina@ed.ac.uk
Cara Merusi Bird Group cmerusi@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Alberto Munoz Read Group (Post Doc) amunoz@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Hiromi Ogawa Earnshaw Group hiromi.ogawa@ed.ac.uk
Dr Lauri Peil Rappsilber Group lpeil@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Elisabeth Petfalski Tollervey Group E.Petfalski@ed.ac.uk
Dr Alison Pidoux Allshire Group Alison.Pidoux@ed.ac.uk
Melpomeni Platani Earnshaw Group m.platani@ed.ac.uk
Fiona Pryde Harrington Group Fiona.Pryde@ed.ac.uk
Timo Quante Postdoctoral Research Associate tquante@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr David Radford Post Doc dradford@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Pierre Rome Postdoctoral Research Associate Pierre.Rome@ed.ac.uk
Sandrine Ruchaud Earnshaw Group s.ruchaud@ed.ac.uk
Itaru Samejima Earnshaw Group Itaru.Samejima@ed.ac.uk
Kumiko Samejima Earnshaw Group Kumiko.Samejima@ed.ac.uk
Dr Emanuela Sani Postdoctoral Research Associate Ema.Sani@ed.ac.uk
Dr Claudia Schaffner Post Doc cschaffn@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Gabrielle Schweikert Bird Group (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) gschweik@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Jim Selfridge Bird Group Jim.Selfridge@ed.ac.uk
Cathy Shields Biology Teaching Project Officer cshields@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Vlastimil Srsen Schirmer Group V.Srsen@ed.ac.uk
Lakxmi Subramanian Allshire Group lakxmi.subramanian@ed.ac.uk
Heather Syred Ohkura Group hsyred@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Salman Tahir Rappsilber Group salman.tahir@ed.ac.uk
Dr Sandeep Talapatra Postdoctoral Research Associate S.Talapatra@ed.ac.uk
Dr Harish Thakur Postdoctoral Research Associate hthakur@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Dr Anthony Travis Research Associate tony.travis@ed.ac.uk
Dr Jai Tree Postdoctoral Scientist Jai.Tree@ed.ac.uk
Paola Vagnarelli Earnshaw Group P.Vagnarelli@ed.ac.uk
Sjaak Van Der Sar Hardwick Group sjaak.vandersar@ed.ac.uk
Dr Kirstin Verzijlbergen Kitty.Verzijlbergen@ed.ac.uk
Dr Prerna Vohra Post doc prerna.vohra@ed.ac.uk
Dr Sakharam Waghmare Post Doc swaghmar@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Shaun Webb shaun.webb@ed.ac.uk
Sharon White Allshire Group Sharon.A.White@ed.ac.uk
Martin White Leach Group mwhite4@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Karen Wills Rappsilber Group Karen.Wills@ed.ac.uk
Judith Zich Hardwick Group Judith.Zich@ed.ac.uk
Juan Zou Rappsilber Group j.zou@ed.ac.uk

Technical Staff

Name Group / Position Email Address
Gregory Anderson Wellcome Centre Lab Manager greg.anderson@ed.ac.uk
Michael Capeness Research Technician Michael.Capeness@ed.ac.uk
Dr Colin Combe Technician colin.combe@ed.ac.uk
Lee Davidson Steve West Group Lee.Davidson@ed.ac.uk
Aileen Greig Tyers Group Aileen.Greig@ed.ac.uk
Ewa Okely Leach Group Ewa.Okely@ed.ac.uk
Kathleen Pullen Public Engagement Group k.pullen@ed.ac.uk
Rinku Rajan MacDonald Group rinku.rajan@ed.ac.uk
Sarah Young Research Technician Sarah.Young@ed.ac.uk
Nikolaj Zuleger Schirmer Group nikolaj.zuleger@ed.ac.uk

This article was published on Feb 8, 2012


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