News

Sep 2025

Emily passed her transfer viva with flying colours and Jakob has joined us for his DPhil. Congratulations, Emily, and welcome back, Jakob! 

June 2025

Callum won the best poster prize and Anjali gave an invited talk at the EMBO Meiosis conference in Switzerland. Congratulations, Callum! 

May 2025

Anjali gave an invited talk at the GRC Germinal Stem Cell Biology conference in Barcelona. 

April 2025

We are delighted to welcome Jakob to the lab for his GMS rotation. 

March 2025

Callum gave a standout talk at the Dunn School Postdoc Symposium. 

February 2025

We are thrilled to welcome Bella to the lab for her postdoctoral work. 

October 2024

We are delighted to welcome Callum to the lab for his postdoctoral work. Anjali gave an invited talk at the Frontiers in Human Genetics conference (Columbia University, New York).

September 2024

We are so proud of Abed and Qianer. Following his very successful MPhil Thesis, Abed is heading to London for a PhD at Kings College. Qianer has been awarded a distinction on her MSc in Statistics project. Congratulations to you both! 

August 2024

Emily is joining the lab for her DPhil following her rotation project on human mutation. Welcome back, Emily!

July 2024

We are going to FASEB Recombination. Anjali is giving an invited talk on germline mutations and Martin is presenting his poster on the missing link between PRDM9 and DNA breaks.

June 2024

Congratulations to Martin for winning the prestigious EPA Postdoc Research Grant! Exciting research to follow, watch this space.  

May 2024

We are recruiting! We are looking for an enthusiastic mathematician, statistician, computer scientist, or physicist to join us. See here for more details or drop Anjali a line. 

April 2024

Abed has joined our lab for his MSc in Genomic Medicine. Welcome, Abed! 

March 2024

Two amazing talks given by members of the team: 

Martin on "Homologous recombination during mouse meiosis: where to cut and how to fix it" 

Emily on "Recombination, mutations, and hotspot death" 

January 2024

Emily has joined our lab for a GMS project. Welcome, Emily! 

December 2023

We are delighted to share the news that our lab will soon be moving to the Dunn School of Pathology. Exciting times ahead! 

October 2023

Our methodology for generating gene knockouts has been accepted for publication in Genome Research. Congrats to the team and collaborators! 

September 2023

Our work on human de novo mutations and meiotic recombination has been accepted for publication in Science. Congrats to the team and collaborators! 

June 2023

We are going to EMBO Meiosis. Anjali will give a talk on the nature and impact of mutations arising due to meiotic DNA breaks.

May 2023 

Callum gave an excellent talk on the evolution of particular types of mutations in the human lineage. 

Mar 2023

Callum has joined the lab for a GMS rotation. Welcome, Callum! 

Feb 2023

We're going to the Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics meeting. Anjali will co-chair the session on "Population and statistical genetics".

July 2022

Gang Zhang has joined our lab. Welcome!

May 2022

We're going to the GRC. Anjali will give a talk on de novo mutations due to meiotic breaks.

April 2022

We're going to the Rank Symposium. Ipsita, Zach, and Anjali will be giving talks.

March 2022

We're starting our new lab investigating germline DNA at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University.