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Matthew Murray, PhD then Post Doctoral Associate 2015-2022 

Matt joined the lab as a PhD rotation student then stayed for his PhD and a subsequent Post Doc. He is currently residing in Denmark where he works on all things proteomics in the laboratory of Niels Maitland.

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Ilona Baraniak PhD & Post Doctoral Associate 2013-2018

Ilona joined as a lowly PhD student and subsequently stayed on as a Post Doc.

After PNAS, 2x JID paper and EbioMedicine papers Ilona decided the bench life was not for her and, instead, has moved to Munich to begin life as a Biosciences Consultant and a doting wife! ilona is currently a Senior consultant.

Ariane Cruz Gomes Post Doctoral Associate 2018-2020

Ariane leaves us after a productive time investigating the mechanism of protection of HCMV vaccine.

She is the co-founder of a start-up company, baseimmune, that looks to use bioinformatic approaches to identify novel strategies for vaccine development.

Henry Barrow Student & Research Technician 2016-2018

Henry leaves us after joining us an undergraduate summer student, project student and then researcher technician.

Henry is another one from the lab who is on the Cambridge Wellcome Trust PhD programme and is now a fully paid up member of Dr. Stephen Graham's lab at Cambridge.

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Nick Peters Post Doctoral Associate 2015-2017

Nick joined us as when he was an F2 academic for 3 years. Nick trained in Geoff Smith's lab at Imperial (now at Cambridge) identifying  DNA-PK as a DNA sensor of the Vaccinia Virus genome and, importantly, identified the viral protein that countered it.

Nick has moved with his new family to Edinburgh where he will complete his medical training and maybe return to the bench one day.

Sneha Anand Post Doctoral Research Associate 2017

Sneha joined us to work on HCMV and cyclosporins for a short time before moving to a new position with Prof. Terry Rabbits at Oxford.

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Liane Dupont Research Technician 2014-2015

Liane stayed on after her undergraduate project to continue her studies of CMV biology.

She then moved to Cambridge on a Wellcome Trust PhD studentship to study host defence mechanisms against viral infection in Prof. Paul Lehner's laboratory. Liane then moved to be a Post Doctoral researcher with Prof. Mike Malim at Kings, London and is now in Copenhagen where she is using her skills to work with the Lundbeck Foundation to identify and support exciting new research projects.

Gokhan Tut Research Technician 2013-2014

Gokhan joined us from Imperial instantly tuning the lab radio to Magic FM. We finally worked out how to change it when Gokhan left to start his PhD at Warwick University and is currently a Post Doctoral researcher in Prof. Paul Moss's lab in Birmingham.

Amy Jacob Wellcome Summer Student 2014

Amy worked for 8 weeks with us after winning a Wellcome Trust Summer studentship which supports students between the second and third years of their undergraduate studies to carry out original research in a host lab. Amy went back to get her degree and an MSc and is now studying for a PhD with NIBSC/Imperial in the HSV laboratory of Mike Nicol.

PhD

Ruairi McErlean (2022 Rotation)

Oliver Thomas (2021 Rotation)

Jessica Allen-Hytinnen (2018 Rotation)

Scott Layzell (2018 Rotation)

Matthew Murray (2015-2019)

Ilona Baraniak (2013-2017)

Master's

2021-22

Mahrukh Ali, Aisha Fakhroo, Sara Foukroun, Dionas Maroulis

2020-21

Callum Angus, Rahinat Muhammad

2019-20

Rebecca Matthews, Kavita Patel

2018-19

Rebecca Mason

2017-18

Madeleine Poulter; Toby Langstone

2016-17

Femke Grute (Erasmus student), Manivel Lodha, Kevin Kiesworo

2015-16

Henry Barrow, Michaela Antoni, Paula Olaizola Rebe, Olivia Gravito

2014-15

Janusha Panchalingham

2013-14

Tolu Ayeni

Bachelor's

2021-22

Oenone Bodman-Harris, Dagny Reese

2020-21

James Dawa, Yivon Ng

2019-20

Delia Cretu, Louisa Harding-Perrott, Cherilyn Lee, Zach Moulder

2018-19

Karen Serrano Arevalo, Teresa Mergia, Nathaly Bonilla Medrano

2017-18

Lily Du, Stephanie Choi, Declan Brogan

2016-17

Bethany Schneiderman, Chinedu Onyerindu, Charles Katz-Summercorn

2015-16

Maria Shamin, Jamal Seddougui

2014-15

Daisy Newberry

2013-14

Liane Dupont, Jessica Hill

Visiting Scientists/Summer Interns

2019-2020

Yumna Begum (Nuffield Foundation)

2018-2019

Cherilyn Lee, Saima Siddiqui, Ernest Abaya (Nuffield Foundation)

2017-2018

Isabella Sodi, Joshua Ho, Emily Ambrose

2016-2017

Henry Blest, Lauren Woodburn

2015-2016

Nathan Moore

2014-2015

Ryan Koh

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