Alumni of the lab
Daniel Dodd
As a postdoc and IGC PhD student in the lab, Dan focused on understanding the role and requirement of TUBB4B in cilia as well as the complex assembly of axonemal dynein proteins, the machines responsible for cilia movement. Dan has moved onto industry at AskBio to pursue his interest in gene therapies.
Tom Gutman
An ERASMUS internship student from University Paris Diderot, Tom was using genome editing in zebrafish to model human ciliopathy disease candidates. He is currently doing a master's degree in Bioinformatics in Université Paris VII Diderot.
Margaret Keighren
Transgenic technologist. Magic hands and microinjection-meister retired in April 2019.
Manon Rivagorda
The immensely talented Manon joined the lab for a summer as an ERAMUS internship from University Paris Diderot. She completed her PhD in Franck Oury’s lab at the Necker Institute in Paris studying the physiological role of autophagy and cilia in regulation of cognition in healthy and aging brain.
Peter Tennant
Peter was a postdoctoral fellow and lab manager working on CRISPR-based therapies for rare genetic diseases and ways to track editing outcomes in vivo, with an emphasis on targeting the rare respiratory disease primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD). Peter has moved on to become the IGC Service Manager.
Scott Waddell
After a very successful MRC HGU PhD shared with the Boulter lab, Scott’s continues to work on characterising the role of primary cilia in liver homeostasis and polycystic liver disease (PLD) and cancer. He has been awarded an independent CSO fellowship and PKD Foundation fellowship to continue to explore how cilia control tissue biomechanics, inflammation and cystic growth.
Rob Foster
MRC IGMM PhD graduate who developed a reporter system for monitoring and quantitating different outcomes of genome editing in real time and space, towards developing robust and reproducible protocols for somatic genome editing therapies for airway diseases. He did a postdoc with David FitzPatrick (HGU) before landing R&D technical posts within Edinburgh Genomics, now Edinburgh Gene Core.
Melissa Jungnickel
After helping us establish genome editing in the postnatal eye, Melissa continues her odyssey in genome editing across town at Roslin in a very high-throughput manner.
Girish Mali
University of Edinburgh PhD graduate whose thesis work focused on novel genes involved cytoplasmic dynein preassembly. Girish was a postdoc investigating the dynein assembly pathway using biochemical and structural biology methods in the lab of Andrew Carter at the MRC LMB. Girish runs his own independent group to the Dunn School University of Oxford!
Tooba Quidwai
Tooba was completed her PHD as part of the Edinburgh Super Resolution Imaging Consortium (ESRIC) program. She did a short post doc with Yanick Crow (IGMM), before heading to UMASS where she did postdocs in the Witman and Nandadasa labs.
Elena Sou
Elena joined the lab as a Biomedical Sciences Masters in Research candidate where she developed genome editing-based strategies in our models of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD). She did a joint PhD candidate in the lab of Urszula McClurg (Liverpool) and Wee Wei (A* Signapore).
Melinda Van Kerckvoorde
Melinda was awarded a BSCB Summer Studentship to come to the lab to explore how cilia content with cell cycle but 2020 had other plans! Instead she worked with Pleasantine and Richard Mort (Lancaster) to develop new scripts for image analysis of Arl13bCerulean-Fucci2a biosensor, which we are writing up as a Methods chapter. She is currently working in industy in venture capital.