
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.
Franziska Trusch
Post-Doc
Franzi joined the lab in February 2023 having a PhD from RKI Berlin and post-doctoral experience in biochemistry using both plant and animal infecting oomycete models.
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:
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Guled Osman
Registration: 2014-2018
PhD awarded 2019
Sneha Koneru
Registration: 2014-2018
PhD awarded 2019
Dimitris Katsanos
Registration: 2015-2019
PhD awarded 2020
Florence Drury
Registration: 2018-2022
PhD awarded 2022
Alicja Brozek
Registration: 2020-2024
PhD awarded 2024
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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), Claire Ye (UG), Joe Bland (UG), Yueming Zhao (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), Cheung Lok To Curtis (PG), MinJung Kim (PG), Barr Leo (PG), Daniela Vladimirova (PG), Halbach Alicia (PG), Hanslibrery Simanjuntak (PG), Shetty Aniket (PG), Megha Nair (PG), Siddharth Ramesh (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), Christine Wei (VI)
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