Principal Investigator - Arno likes fly-farming and developmental genetics. In his spare time he entertains his wife, two daughters and one dog or goes for fishing or Scuba diving (DUSAC)

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Post Doctoral Fellow - Daniels stamping ground is sub-cellular. If he`s not taking pictures with the confocal microscope he uses his DSLR to investigate Scotlands flora and fauna.

Graduate Student (Wellcome Trust 4 Year fellow) - Before joining the lab, I did my undergraduate degree in Genetics at the University of Glasgow. I am working on the dop phenotype, and am involved in looking for its binding partners and investigating the molecular nature of wing and chorion defects found in dop mutants. Outside the lab, I play hockey and am interested in hillwalking.

Postdoc - Daniel graduated at the Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore, under supervision of Prof. P. Seshagiri. Daniel combines genetics and biochemistry to address the function of novel players in FGF-signalling and mesoderm spreading. When not in the lab he is entertaining his son Rishabh together with his wife Lalitha.

Postdoc - Olivia graduated in Biomedical Sciences (Pharmacology) at the University of Aberdeen and did a PhD on the "Mechanisms of Dendritic Peptide Release" at the University of Edinburgh. In continuing her scientific career as a post doctoral researcher Olivia decided to switch from neurobiology to Drosophila developmental genetics.

Post Doctoral Fellow - VillÕ moved from Budapest to Dundee and switched her subject of research from uracil to E-cadherin. Outside the lab, she explores munroes and practices tai chi.

Lab Manager and research assistant - Ryan is our 'man for everything' with excellent connections to everyone. Ryan is involved in all projects in the laboratory. Ryan teaches us the essentials about life in Scotland and he likes to play golf. In his free time Ryan enjoys family life with his wife Claire, their daughter Lucy and their son Finn. Ryan likes the Football, both on the field himself and on the stands in Tannadice.

Graduate Student (BBSRC fellow) - Maggy moved from Dusseldorf with us after a Diplomathesis in Prof. E. Knust's laboratory. She tries to understand the role of Pbl by identifying genetic modifiers using EMS screens. When not pushing flies or fixing embryos, Maggy enjoys Dundee and improves her Badminton skills.

Maggy is now a postdoc with Prof. Kevin Hiom

Lab Student - Katja is a Leonardo Da Vinci project students from the University of Potsdam in Germany.

Postdoctoral Research in the laboratory of Dr.Andrew Jackson at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh. Jackson Lab

Graduate Student - Anna, a long standing member in the laboratory moved with us from Dusseldorf. Her thesis investigates the functions of two FGF8-like ligands by loss and gain of function experiments. Despite being too cold for Anna, she appears to love Scotland.

Present Position: CSBE Centre for systems Biology, University of Edinburgh. (link: http://swainlab.bio.ed.ac.uk/ )

Present position:
post Doc with Dr. Stefan Schulte-Merker
(Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology
Diploma and graduate student 2004-2009

Research Assistant, Winter 2008

Jana Friedrich is now a PhD student with Dr. Ingrid lohmann at the University of Heidelberg