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Current lab members
Katy Boswell
Postdoctoral researcher
Role of chromosomal copy number alterations on neural crest development and neuroblastoma
James Birch
PhD student (MRC DiMeN DTP)
(jointly with Ivana Barbaric group, School of Biosciences)
Cell competition, neural crest development and neuroblastoma initiation
Fay Cooper
Postdoctoral researcher
Enteric nervous system development/cell therapy development for treatment of Hirschsprung disease
Eldriena D'Silva
Research Assistant
Development of hPSC-based models of paediatric tumours
Andreas Kosteletos
Postdoctoral researcher
Development of hPSC-based models of paediatric tumours
Eloise Moore
PhD student (MRC DiMeN DTP)
(jointly with Deborah Tweddle's group, University of Newcastle)
ALK regulation in trunk neural crest and neuroblastoma initiation
Isabelle Parker
PhD student (MRC DiMeN DTP)
(jointly with Elena Rainero's group, School of Biosciences)
Metabolic reprogramming and neuroblastoma initiation
Keiko Takemoto Ruiz
PhD student (Yorkshire Bioscience BBSRC DTP in Mechanistic Biology)
(jointly with Chris Toseland's group, School of Medicine and Population Health)
The role of biomechanical cues in neural crest
development/tumour initiation
Nikolas Stefanidis
PhD student (White Rose BBSRC DTP in Mechanistic Biology)
(jointly with Alex Fletcher's group, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences)
Computational modelling of stem cell fate decisions/dissecting the role of Notch signalling
Sude Uyulgan
PhD student (White Rose BBSRC DTP in Mechanistic Biology)
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(jointly with Matt Towers' group, School of Biosciences)
Lateral plate mesoderm/early human limb development
Anestis Tsakiridis (Group Leader)/Denver (Rotation student)
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Emails
Group photo (October 2025)
Alumni/next destinations
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Tom Frith: PDRA (2017-2020)/Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, James Briscoe group (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
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Oliver Bower: Research Technician (2019-2020)/PhD student, Kathy Niakan group (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
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Bethany James: Research Technician (2019-2020)/PhD student
Ivana Barbaric group (Centre for Stem Cell Biology,
University of Sheffield)
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Sophia Tarelli: Research Technician (2019-2020)/Higher Medical
Laboratory Assistant (NHS)
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Larissa Butler: Research Assistant (2021)/Research scientist
(Charles Rivers)
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Celine Souilhol: Research assistant-Lab Manager (2020-2021)/Senior technical specialist (Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University)
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Matt Wind: PhD student (2017-2021)-PDRA (2020-2021)/Deputy General Manager (NHS)
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Brittany Ellis: Research Technician (2021-2022)/PhD student, Tatyana Shelkovnikova group (Sheffield Institute for
Translational Neuroscience)
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Rebecca Lea: PDRA (2022-2023)/PDRA, Ivana Barbaric group (Centre for Stem Cell Biology,University of Sheffield)
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Ingrid Maricel Saldana Guerrero: PhD student-PDRA (2018-2023) /Research Scientist (Stem Cell Technologies)
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Antigoni Gogolou: Erasmus student-PhD student-PDRA(2018-2023)/Research Associate (The Milner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge)
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