OUR TEAM
TIM DAVIES
PI/Assistant Professor
Tim started running his group at Durham in January 2020 and has worked on cell division since his PhD. He never gets bored of watching cells divide or talking over coffee.
ED O'NEIL
PhD student
Ed did a BA in biology at the University of Oxford, and an MSc in molecular biology at the University of Sussex, working on primase-polymerases. He then worked as a research assistant at MRC Harwell, generating and validating genetically engineered mice. He now focuses on how cytokinesis varies between cells in C. elegans.
Ellie Wu
MBiol student
For her MBiol project, Ellie is using mammalian tissue culture to study cell division in this (new to us) system.
Sam Debenham
MBioPhys student
Sam has been using microrheology to study the cytoplasm in C. elegans (co-supervised by Dr Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts).
Ben Whyatt
MRes student
Ben is using temperature senstive mutants to investigate myosin-independent contractility in C. elegans.
Bran Peng
PhD student
Bran is using a range of genetic tools to investigate cytokinesis in C. elegans and human cells.
FORMER MEMBERS
MBiol students
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Isabel Cormack - 2020-2021
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Jade Newbury - 2021-2022
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Rebecca Sandercock - 2021-2022
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Adam Rogerson - 2022-2023
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Elisa Lee - 2023-2024
Undergraduate students
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Robert Almqvist - 2021 Genetics Society Summer Studentship
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Sam Bennett - 2021
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Oswald Chan - 2021
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Adam Rogerson - 2022 Biosciences Summer Studentship
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Abi Dufeu - 2022
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Felix Breach - 2023
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Will Lovell - 2023
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Yixin Liu - 2024