Dr. Michalis Barkoulas
Principal Investigator
Michalis completed his PhD at the University of Oxford working on plant developmental genetics. He was introduced to C. elegans research while being a post-doc at the Félix lab in Paris. He started his own group at Imperial Life Sciences in 2014.
Alicja Brozek
PhD student
Alicja did her Bsc at Imperial in Biochemistry with a year of research abroad at ETH Zurich. After her MRes in systems and synthetic biology at Imperial she joined as a PhD student in October 2020.
Jonathan Saunders
PhD student
Jon completed a BSc in Biological Sciences and an MRes in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at Imperial. He joined the group as a PhD student in October 2021.
Dr. Manish Grover
Post-Doc
Manish joined the group in January 2018 from ENS Lyon, where he worked on development and aging using C. elegans as a model. His PhD was focused on host-pathogen interactions in malaria.
Ming Yi
PhD student
Ming completed a BSc in Biological Sciences at Anhui University and an MRes in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at Imperial. She joined the group as a PhD student in October 2022.
Shuxiao (Amelia) Lin
PhD student
Amelia obtained her bachelor and master's degree in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Bristol. She joined the lab as a PhD student in October 2022.
Mar Ferrando Marco
PhD student
Mar completed a BSc in Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at University of Valencia and an MRes Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at Imperial. She joined the group as a PhD student in October 2020.
Kenneth Liu
PhD student
Ken studied Biological Sciences at Imperial with a year of research in the industry. He joined the lab in October 2020 as a PhD student.
Dr. Domenica Ippolito
Post-Doc
Domenica completed her BSc and MRes in Biological Sciences at the University of Naples "Federico II". She obtained a PhD in Biology at the University of Fribourg, working on the molecular mechanisms regulating thermo-sensory plasticity in C. elegans. She joined the lab as post-doc in January 2023
Lab alumni
We host and train a number of students every year coming from Imperial College or other Universities.
Thank you everyone for your contributions and please keep in touch !
Post-docs (PD) / Research Technicians (RT) / Undergraduate students (UG) / Postgraduate students (PG) / Visitors and Interns (VI)
PhD students:
Florence Drury
Dimitris Katsanos
Sneha Koneru
Guled Ali Osman
Staff:
Iqrah Razzaq (RT)
Rito Ghose (RT, UG, VI)
Mark Hintze (PD)
Michael Fasseas (PD)
Lamia Mestek-Boukhibar (PD)
Sophie Gilbert (PD)
Students: Fangzi Zha (PG, VI), Ziqi Lu (VI), Mingke Pan (UG, PG), Jia Woo (UG, VI), Fu Xiang Quah (UG), Amy Salter (UG), Stephanie Norwood (UG), Julia Spindel (UG), Eric Rutten (UG), Milena Pavlickova (UG), Emily Read (UG), Ioanna Morianou (UG), Sara Curcio Lamas (UG), Gemma Pitotti (UG), Vivian Feng (UG), Diane Cheng (UG), Xinyu Wang (UG), Ashley Stearn (UG), Cera Mai (UG, PG), Gauri Saini (UG), James Philpott (UG), Jasmine Ho (UG), Pablo Carbajal Martin (UG), Xiatong Lu (UG), Yang (Sabrina) Lu (UG), Umar Ishaque (UG), Rebecca Wang (UG), Julia Barret Joly (UG), Vincent Chua (UG), Yuanzhi Wang (PG), Nneka Nhadi (PG), Munan Du (PG), Kyros Kyrou (PG), Pete Taylor (PG), Judy Ghalayini (PG), Maximus Rex (PG), Nefeli Skoufou Papoutsaki (PG), SoYoung Jo (PG), Xenia Karlsson (PG), Maximilien Biguet (PG), Mahmood Al-Hinai (PG), Lin Luo (PG), Lingkun Li (PG), Kai Ren (PG), Harry Evers (PG), Tiannuo Li (PG), Benedetta D'Elia (PG), Charis Constantinou (PG), Jingyi Tian (PG), Mingyu Xue (PG), Shannon Edwards (PG), Yifan Zhao (VI), Harriet Oliver (VI), Julien Lambert (VI), Alexander Steamers (VI), Christos Nicolaou (VI), Davin Lee (VI), Sodai Lotharukpong (VI), Rui Huang (VI), Yiran Shi (VI),