The Raff Lab People Page
The Raff Lab People Page
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Jordan Raff Jordan was an undergraduate in the Department of Biochemistry, Bristol (1983-1986), a PhD student with David Glover at Imperial College London (1986-1990) and a post-doc with Bruce Alberts at UCSF (1990-1994). He then started his own lab at The Gurdon Institute in Cambridge. In August 2009 Jordan relocated his lab to sunny Oxford, at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. |
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Alan Wainman Alan was born in High Wycombe and did his degree in Cambridge. He worked for Maurizio Gatti (Rome) and James Wakefield (Oxford) before joining the Raff lab in Oct 2008.
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Helio D. Roque Helio did his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Sciences in Lisbon were he also worked as a trainee at Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He then went to Heidelberg - Germany to do his Ph.D. at the EMBL. In 2010 he joined the Raff Lab for his Post-Doc where he is studying several proteins involved in centriole duplication. |
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Janina Baumbach Janina did her undergraduate studies in Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany. After doing her masters project at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, she started her DPhil in the Raff lab in 2009. Her research focuses on understanding the regulation of PCM recruitment to the centrosome. |
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Catarina Vicente
Catarina did a Genetics degree at the University of York from 2005-2009, with a placement year at Imperial College. She started her PhD as part of the Wellcome Trust Chromosome and Developmental Biology PhD programme in Oxford in October 2009, and after a rotation year is now doing her D.Phil in the Raff lab. |
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Saroj Saurya Saroj Saurya Joined Raff group in February 2010 as a Research Assistant. Prior to joining us, she worked at Oxforbiodynamics on development of cancer diagnostic kits and at the Jenner Institute (Oxford) on development of Malaria, HIV and TB vaccines. She spent two years at the MRC-LMB (Cambridge), studying the Egf receptor pathway in Drosophila and then three years researching Shigella Type III systems here at the Dunn School of Pathology (Oxford). She started her career as Technical sales Executive for Promega products with Hysel India (Delhi) and then product specialist with LabIndia for Applied Biosystems products in India. Saroj earned MSc in Cell and Molecular biology from University of Delhi, India in 1995. |
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Jenny Richens Jenny did her BA and MSci at the University of Cambridge from 2000-2004. She then went on to do a PhD at the John Innes Centre in Norwich on the Medicago truncatula - Sinorhizobium meliloti nitrogen fixing symbiosis in the labs of Prof. Allan Downie, and Dr Giles Oldroyd. This was completed shortly before she joined the Raff lab in September 2008. Jenny is now interested in how various components of the centrosome interact with one another. |
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Paul Conduit Paul Conduit did his undergraduate degree at the University of Birmingham from 2001-2004 and went on to work with John Kilmartin at the LMB-MRC as a research assistant from 2004-2006. He did his PhD with Jordan Raff from 2006 to 2010 investigating the regulation of centrosome size in Drosophila and has continued in the lab as a post-doc investigating the regulation of PCM recruitment to the centrosome. |
Anna Franz Anna did her undergraduate studies in Heidelberg and went as an Erasmus student to Durham. She then moved to Cambridge to do do her PhD in the Raff lab as part of the Wellcome Trust 4 year PhD programme. She is studying the role of two novel centrosomal proteins in centriole duplication and centrosome maturation. |
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Nadine Muschalik Nadine did her PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. She joined the Raff lab as a post-doc in May 2011 and is looking forward to understanding the mysteries of the centrosome. |
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Matthew Cottee Matthew studied for an undergraduate MBiochem degree at Oxford. As part of his 4th year master's project, Matthew worked in the Dunn School under Professor Susan Lea, on structural characterisation of bacterial Type 3 Secretion System proteins. After sharing lab space with the Raff lab during this time, Matthew inevitably joined the group in late 2010 for a 4 year DPhil project, working closely with the Lea lab. He is currently investigating the structural biology of Centrosomal components of Drosophila. |
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Zhe (Violet) Feng Violet studied for a BSc in Biochemistry at Imperial College London. She recently joined the Raff lab as a 4 year DPhil student, working closely with Susan Lea's lab. She is going to investigate the structural biology of several key PCM components in Drosophila. |
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Zsofi Novak Zsofia did her MSc degree in Budapest, Hungary at Eotvos Lorand University and completed her diploma project in DNA repair in Matthew Whitby’s lab at the University of Oxford. She is now doing her DPhil in the Raff lab as part of the Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD Programme in Chromosome and Developmental Biology. Zsofia is studying the dynamics of centrosomal incorporation of different proteins. |
 | Kasia Kozyrska Kasia did her undergraduate BSc. in Molecular Genetics at Dundee. She recently joined the lab as a rotation student, as part of the Wellcome Trust Chromosome and Developmental Biology DPhil. Programme. She is hoping that the Raff lab won't scare her away from the fascinating subject of centrosomes! |
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Metta Pratt Metta did her undergraduate degree in Groningen in Pharmacy. She is currently studying for her Masters in Medical and Pharmaceutical Drug Innovation in Groningen, and recently joined the Raff lab as a visiting student. Metta is working with Paul to understand the regulation of PCM recruitment. |
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Richard Reschen Richard did his undergraduate degree at the University of Durham before completing his Masters degree in Bioscience Enterprise at the University of Cambridge. After 3 years as a Business Development Manager for the University of Cambridge he joined Jordan's lab as a PhD student. Richard worked on the link between DNA repair and centrosomes (he hopes there is one) and on the role of an enigmatic protein in PCM recruitment. Richard recently completed his PhD in the lab, and is now moving on to bigger and better things! |
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Kathrin Brunk Kathrin studied Biochemistry in Halle (Germany) (1997-2002) and after graduating moved to the UK to study for a PhD as part of the White Rose PhD Initiative at the University of Leeds (2003-2007). Working in the labs of Andrew Jackson (Leeds) and Phillip Ingham (Sheffield) she was studying the role of MCPH1 in Drosophila mitosis. In 2007 she joined the Raff lab as a post-doc and investigated the role of centrosome amplification in tumorigenesis in flies. |
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Naomi Stevens Naomi studied for a BA at Cambridge University from 2002-2005. She was accepted onto the Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD programme in Developmental Biology and after 3 rotation projects she chose the Raff lab for her PhD thesis. She recently completed her PhD, having worked both on the molecules involved in regulating centriole duplication and on the functions of the centriole in early Drosophila development. Naomi is now working with Dr. Jennifer Zallen at the Sloan-Kettering institute in New York. |
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Jeroen Dobbelaere After studying Biochemistry in Belgium, in 2000 Jeroen went to the ETH Zürich (Switzerland) to do a PhD in the lab of Yves Barral studying the role of septins in cytokinesis in budding yeast. In 2005, he moved to the UK to work on centrosomes and in particular on centrosome maturation. Jeroen left the lab at the end of 2009 to move to Vienna, where he is continuing his work at the IMP. |
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Renata Basto Renata now runs her own group at the Institut Curie in Paris. Her lab are interested in understanding how centrosomes and cilia regulate various cellular processes and how these influence development, proliferation and the establishment of diseases. |
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Jun-yong Huang Jun-Yong did his PhD at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China from1986-1990 and was a Post-Doc with Trevor Jowett at the University of Newcastle from 1992-1995, and then stayed in Jordan's lab from 1995-2003 as a Post-Doc. He set up his own lab at the University of Newcastle, UK in 2003. His laboratory focuses on mitosis and is currently trying to understand and dissect the mechanism of spindle checkpoint using Drosophila as model organism. |
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Fanni Gergely Since summer 2006 Fanni has run her own lab at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute. Her group aim to understand the normal behaviour of the microtubule cytoskeleton both in cell division and tissue organisation, and its perturbation in cancer. |
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Mike Lee After completing his PhD in 2003 Mike took up a position as a Senior Research Scientist at AstraZeneca in Loughborough, UK. His current research focuses on early stage drug discovery in the area of respiratory and inflammatory disorders. |
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Maruxa Martinez-Campos Maruxa left Jordan's lab after obtaining her PhD to spend two years in London working as an Editor for Genome Biology. She enjoyed it nearly as much as being in the Raff lab, but decided it was time to move back to sunny Spain. She is currently working as a science communicator/editor in front of the beach, at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB). She is in charge of writing the monthly newspaper el·lipse, which she highly recommends you to read. |
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Teresa Barros Teresa studied Microbiolgy and Genetics at University of Lisbon. After graduating in 2001 she began her PhD studies as part of the GABBA Program (Graduate Program in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology) at University of Porto. She was awarded a PhD scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and joined the Raff lab to study D-TACC involvement in microtubule stabilization. Teresa completed her PhD in 2006. She then joined Summit plc (formerly DanioLabs), a drug discovery company. Teresa now works in the department of genetics in Cambridge. |
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Eliana Lucas e-mail: eliana.lucas(@)cancer.org.uk |
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Joyce Lau Joyce graduated in University of Southampton in 2002 and was a technician in Jordan Raff's lab from 2003-2007. She did an MPhil in Jordan's lab from 2005-2006. She has returned to Hong Kong and is doing leukemia research in the University of Hong Kong. |
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Nina Peel Nina was awarded her MSci from the University of Glasgow in 2002. She subsequently joined the Wellcome Trust PhD programme in Cambridge, doing her thesis work with Jordan Raff from 2003-2007. In 2007 Nina moved to the NIH, Bethesda, USA to take up a post-doc position with Kevin O'Connell. She is currently recovering from the culture shock, and pursuing cytoskeletal research in C. elegans. |
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Juliet Barrows Juliet's working life has encompassed the voluntary sector, town planning and the arts world. She has a degree in Fine Art and an NVQ in architectural carving. She has worked for the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge since 1997. |
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Gill Howard Gill did her FIMLS in Cellular Pathology and MSc in Applied Immunology whilst working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1978-1988) and has also worked at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and Baxter AG in Vienna. Was a member of the Raff lab from July 2007- Sept. 2008. Gill is now working at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge. |
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Carly Dix Carly was born in Essex, UK and did her undergraduate studies at UCL in London. After graduating in 2003 she began her PhD studies as part of the Wellcome Trust four year PhD programme in Developmental Biology. In 2004 Carly joined the Raff lab full-time for her PhD, which she completed in August 2008. Carly's research focused on understanding how factors required for PCM recruitment co-operate to build a mature centrosome in mitosis. Carly is now working as a Post-Doc in the lab of Simon Bullock at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge. |
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