Research Group Leaders
There are 19 research groups in the Wellcome Centre; the leaders are listed below. Click on a link to read more details about their research.
Robin Allshire | Epigenetic inheritance: establishment and transmission of specialised chromatin domains |
Jeyaprakash Arulanandam | Structural biology of cell division |
Jean Beggs | Regulation of splicing and functional links between splicing, transcription and chromatin |
Adrian Bird | Understanding proteins that interpret the genome to stabilise cell states |
Dhanya Cheerambathur | Role of microtubule cytoskeleton in building and regenerating the neural connectome |
Atlanta Cook | Structural biology of macromolecular complexes in RNA metabolism and transcriptional silencing |
Owen Davies | Structural biology of meiosis |
Bill Earnshaw | The role of non-histone proteins in chromosome structure and function during mitosis |
Patrick Heun | Establishment and maintenance of chromatin identity |
Georg Kustatscher | Proteome dynamics: The role of synthesis and degradation in regulating protein levels |
Adele Marston | Orienting chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis |
Donal O'Carroll | Regulation of gene expression by non-coding RNA and RNA modification |
Hiro Ohkura | The meiotic spindle and chromosomes in oocytes |
Juri Rappsilber | Cellular tomography |
Ken Sawin | Cell polarity and cytoskeletal organisation |
David Tollervey | RNA Processing and Quality Control |
Malcolm Walkinshaw | Molecular recognition and ligand discovery in biological systems |
Julie Welburn | Microtubule motor cooperation in cell division |
Marcus Wilson | Investigating the reading writing and erasing of epigenetic marks |