Team

Name
Valeriya Malysheva
Function
Group Leader
Extra info
Biophysicist by training, I am adopting a holistic systems biology approach to understand how normal and aberrant cellular decisions are made in the brain
Name
Helen Ray-Jones
Function
Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher
Extra info
I am developing and applying experimental and computational methods to study the genetic determinants of chromatin activity and connectivity in the neuroimmune context.
Name
Nam Nguyen
Function
Postdoctoral Researcher
Extra info
Nam is a computer scientist and will join our team in April 2024. He will work on the development of statistical approaches for analysis and multimodal integration of multiway chromatin interactions.
Name
Noémie De Broeck
Function
PhD student
Extra info
I am using chromatin organisation assays and other omics techniques to understand the regulatory logic underlying isoform choice upon cell fate acquisition
Name
Will Orchard
Function
PhD intern
Extra info
Will is an applied mathematician and is going to join our team in June 2024. He will be working on the development of single-cell causal networks.
Name
Soniya Lama
Function
Master's student
Extra info
Soniya is a joint computational Master's student (shared with Pasciuto Lab), reconstructing cell-cell regulatory networks with a focus on CD4+ T cells in the human brain.
Name
Ruoxin Li
Function
Master's student
Extra info
Ruoxin is a joint computational Master's student (shared with Pasciuto Lab), investigating immune cell states in the human brain using RNA and protein velocity concepts.
Name
Lai Ting Chan
Function
Senior Technician
Extra info
I am providing A-Z support with the generation of chromatin organization data, using 4C and (C)Hi-C approaches, as well as with the CRISPR-mediated perturbation assays.

Alumni

Master's students
Name
Aadam Basrai
Extra info
Aadam graduated from the University of Cambridge, developing a novel computational tool in our lab for reconstruction of cis-regulatory networks in our lab as part of his Systems Biology Part III Master's degree.