People
Gordon Simpson
With a first degree in Marine Biology, Gordon has spent (more than) 6 months in a leaky boat. After a PhD in Dundee and a move to RNA, Gordon won a Royal Society Fellowship to study at the Friedrich Miescher Institut, Basel, Switzerland, before returning to the UK to work with Arabidopsis at the John Innes Centre. Gordon is a Principal Investigator and Reader within the College of Life Sciences and his position is jointly funded by Dundee University and The James Hutton Institute.
Céline Duc
Céline is from France. She studied for her PhD at Montpellier, working with Arabidopsis mutants that affect circadian clock function. Céline is studying the mechanism by which FPA controls gene expression.
c.duc@dundee.ac.uk
Vasiliki Zacharaki
Vicky is from Greece. She has a Masters degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and trained in Paris before joining us. Vicky is a PhD student and is studying FPA and RNA 3' end formation.
v.z.zacharaki@dundee.ac.uk
Emily Lishak
Emily graduated from Bristol University, England. Emily is a PhD student studying FPA and RNA 3' end formation.
e.lishak@dundee.ac.uk
Samir Watson
Samir is carrying out his Molecular Genetics Honours Research Project in our Lab, discovering new RNAs.
s.z.watson@dundee.ac.uk
Position Available
As a result of major new funding from the BBSRC, we will shortly be recruiting a molecular biologist to join our collaboration with Prof. Geoff Barton's group on RNA sequencing.
Honorary Lab Member
Sandie Gray
There from day 1, unpacking the very first PCR machine, and doing the first mutant screens in Arabidopsis and barley. Sandie is now the Lab Manager of Dundee University Division of Plant Sciences, but as she still looks after the lab, she is an honorary lab member.
s.f.gray@dundee.ac.uk
Funded collaboration with Geoff Barton's Group
Alexander Sherstnev
Sasha is from Russia and he is a former nuclear physicist. Sasha joins us from Oxford University. As a post-doc based in Prof. Geoff Barton's group Sasha is part of our team elucidiating mechanisms and roles of alternative polyadenylation. Sasha is analysing our wealth of RNA sequencing data.
a.sherstnev@dundee.ac.uk
Position Available
As a result of major new funding from the BBSRC, we will shortly be recruiting a computational biologist to join our collaboration with Prof. Geoff Barton's group on RNA sequencing.
Funded collaboration with Carol MacKintosh's Lab
Namrata Reetoo
Namrata is from Mauritius and is funded by a Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award for outstanding students from developing countries. Namrata is jointly supervised by Carol MacKintosh of the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit.
n.reetoo@dundee.ac.uk
Funded collaboration with Claire Halpin's Lab
We have US$2 million funding from GCEP for basic research using Arabidopsis to optimise the release of sugars from plant cell walls for second generation biofuel production.
Yuguo Xiao
Yuguo is from China. He obtained his PhD in Beijing working with a developmental mutant of rice and joined this project as a Post-Doc in October 2009.
Christopher McClellan
Chris is from the USA. He obtained his PhD at the University of Maryland where he studied ethylene signaling in Arabidopsis. Chris is a Post-Doc on the GCEP project carrying out Arabidopsis mutant screens.
Kasia Rataj
Kasia did her Masters degree at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland and obtained her PhD in our lab studying FPA.
k.z.rataj@dundee.ac.uk
The Diaspora
Pauline Verdier
Pauline completed her Masters Research Project in our Lab before returning to Universite Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Sirja Yli-Seppanen
Sirja was from Finland and completed her undergraduate research project in our lab. Sirja graduated with an Honour's degree in Molecular Genetics in 2011.
Kirsty Graham
Kirsty was a graduate from Dundee University who worked on the GCEP collaboration with Claire Halpin's lab. Kirsty went on to win a PhD place.
Csaba Hornyik
Csaba joined us after obtaining his PhD for studies in RNA silencing in Josef Burgyan's lab and having won an EU Marie Curie Fellowship to come to SCRI. Csaba uncovered a role for FPA in regulating RNA 3' end formation and won the Massalski Prize 2010 (for the best scientist under the age of 36 working at SCRI). Csaba now has an independent position within SCRI (The James Hutton Institute) studying potato development.
Michael Skelly
Michael, a graduate of Dundee University, worked as a technician on the lignin project that is a collaboration with Claire Halpin's lab. In 2010, Michael went on to start a PhD in Gary Loake's lab at Edinburgh University.
Marie Durand
Marie studied in our lab in 2010 as part of her Masters degree. She returned to Montpellier, France, to complete her degree and another research rotation.
Lionel Terzi
Lionel was our first post-doc funded on our first BBSRC grant in Dundee. Lionel developed a method to isolate intact RNA-protein complexes from plant cells (Plant J) and worked closely with Csaba to make the first breakthroughs on FPA function (Developmental Cell). Lionel returned to his native Switzerland to take up a position in a pharmaceutical company.
Jacqui Marshall
Jacqui was a technician from 2006-2009 and went on to another technician position in Plant Sciences at Dundee University.
Lang Dou
Lang carried out his honours research project in our lab and graduated with an honours degree in Molecular Biology and Pharmacology in 2009. Lang then won a place on the Immunology MSc course at Imperial College, London.
Saira Ashraf
Saira won a Carnegie Trust Fellowship to study in our lab in the summer of 2008. Saira went on to graduate with an honours degree in Biochemistry in 2009.
Stephen Holland
After winning a Genetics Society Fellowship to study in our lab over the summer vacation of 2006, Stephen went on to the Wellcome Trust PhD Program at Imperial College, London.
Will Brockie
Our first student, Will graduated with an honours degree in Molecular Genetics in 2006 and returned to the family farm in the Scottish Borders.
