PhD in Biomedicine @ University Pompeu Fabra, PRBB, Barcelona

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Berta studied cell cycle regulation and environmental stress responses in budding yeast during her PhD with Francesc Posas and Laia de Nadal. She joined the lab in 2019 and was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to study the nature of DNA replication fork stalling and restart. 

Lucy joined the lab in 1994. She has led several projects around the mechanism, regulation and misregulation of origin licensing. She also helps to support lab personnel and facilitate the smooth running of the lab.

Anne joined the lab in the year 2000, making the switch from developmental biology research to DNA replication. She has been involved with a variety of projects in the lab during that time and helps support the work of other lab members.

PhD in Medical Sciences @ CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge

Evelyn studied the mechanism of piRNA-dependent transcriptional silencing of transposons during her PhD in Greg Hannon's lab at CRUK Cambridge Institute. She joined the lab in January 2024 to work on the initiation of human DNA replication.

PhD in Chemical Biology @ The Rockefeller University

Nathan joined the lab in October 2025 to study the evolution of replicative helicase loading mechanisms. During his PhD, he studied the assembly of the mitochondrial small ribosomal subunit in Sebastian Klinge's lab at the Rockefeller University. 

PhD in Molecular & Cell Biology @ National Institute of Genetics

Yuki studied the relationship between DNA replication and the cell cycle in human cells during his PhD in Masato Kanemaki's lab at the National Institute of Genetics in Japan. He joined the lab in December 2025 to study replication-coupled checkpoint in human cells.

BA & MSci in Biochemistry @ University of Cambridge

Giselle joined the lab in October 2022 to study the mechanisms of chromatin replication. She is funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship.  

PhD in Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics @ Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

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Chew Theng studied bacterial Mre11-Rad50 and the behaviour of DNA replication forks on long inverted-repeats during her PhD with Hisaji Maki. She joined the lab in 2018 to study the biochemistry of eukaryotic DNA replication initiation.

BA & MSci in Biochemistry @ University of Cambridge

Tom joined the lab in October 2024 to study the mechanisms of heterochromatin replication and inheritance.​​​

PhD in Molecular Biology @ University of Groningen

Fernando joined the lab in September 2022. During his PhD in Dr Michael Chang's lab, he studied the role of Rap1 and G-quadruplexes at budding yeast telomeres. Currently, he is working on chromatin replication.

PhD in Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics @ Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

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Kang Wei joined the lab in 2020 to study how stressed DNA replication triggers checkpoint responses. Prior to this, he was a post-doc with Dr Phil Zegerman at the University of Cambridge, where he investigated the role of phosphatase in DNA initiation. 

PhD in Biochemistry @ Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) Vienna

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Florian studied the mechanisms of APC/C activation in mitosis during his PhD with Jan-Michael Peters. He joined the lab in 2018 to study how human DNA replication is initiated and is supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship.

PhD in Cancer Biology @ Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) London

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Sophie studied the effects of DNA secondary structures on replication during her PhD with Gideon Coster. She joined the lab in 2024 to study mechanisms of chromatin replication.