Group Leader:
Karim Labib
I studied as a PhD student with Paul Nurse in the Department of Biochemistry at Oxford University. I then had a year as a postdoctoral fellow with Sergio Moreno at the University of Salamanca in Spain, two years with Stephen Kearsey in the Department of Zoology in Oxford, and five years with John Diffley at the Clare Hall laboratories in London. I joined the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in 2001 with a Senior Cancer Research Fellowship, and am currently a Senior Group Leader. Between 2005 and 2008 I was part of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Luis Garcia-Rodriguez
Alberto Sanchez-Diaz
Giacomo de Piccoli
Sugopa Sengupta
Scientific Officer
Ricky van Deursen
Pedro Junior Nkosi
Graduate Students
Asli Devrekanli
Magda Foltman
Timurs Maculins
Cell Cycle Group
Applications are now open for our PhD programme starting in September 2010.Our group has two main interests. The first concerns the molecular mechanisms and regulation of chromosome replication, by which eukaryotic cells preserve the integrity of their genomes from one generation of cells to the next. In addition, we also study the mechanisms and regulation of cytokinesis, the process by which cells divide at the end of the cell cycle. We work with the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which represents an excellent model system with which to study important aspects of cell biology that are highly conserved throughout evolution. For more details of our work, please visit the Cell Cycle Group website.
