Our team

Prof. Kayla King
Dr. Mike Blazanin
CERC Post-doc


Dr. Melissa Chen
NSERC Banting Fellow


Juli Cohen
Lab Manager (Oxford)
Manisha Dosanjh
Lab Manager (UBC)


Dr. Antoine Filion
CERC Post-doc

Samuel Greenrod
BBSRC DPhil Student
Dr. Toby Hector
NERC Post-doc
Chelsea Higgins
PhD student


Sarzana Hossain
PhD student
Serena Johnson
PhD student
Dr. Judy Li
CERC Post-doc


Luna Li
BBSRC DPhil Student

Dr. Luis Macedo da Silva
CERC Post-doc
(starting August 2024)
Dr. Cameron Smith
ERC Post-doc
Dominik Vinopal
PhD student



Carla Wagener
NERC DPhil student



Alex Wiebe
MSc student
(starting Sept 2024)



Dr. Ian Will
ERC Post-doc


Past Lab Members

Kim Hoang (Oxford, US NSF fellow 2020-2024)
Judy Li (Oxford, DPhil 2024)
Duhita Sant (Oxford, NERC post-doc 2022-2023)
Emily Stevens (Oxford, ERC post-doc 2019-2023)
Kieran Bates (Oxford, St. Hilda’s Junior Research Fellow 2019-2023)
Georgia Drew (Oxford, ERC post-doc 2019-2023)
Andrea Gomez-Chamorro (Oxford, Swiss NSF fellow 2019-2021)
Maria Ordovas-Montanes (Oxford, DPhil 2020)
Alice Ekroth (Oxford, DPhil 2020)
Jordan Sealey (Oxford, Technician 2017-2019)
Charlotte Rafaluk-Mohr (Oxford, Leverhulme post-doc 2014-2019)
Alex Betts (Oxford, DPhil 2017, St. Hilda’s Junior Research Fellow 2017-2018)
Suzie Ford (Oxford, DPhil 2016 and Wellcome post-doc 2018-2020)
Dylan Dahan (Oxford, MA 2018)
Crystal Vincent (Oxford, technician 2014-2015)
Crystal Frost (Liverpool, post-doc 2012-2014)
Steve Parratt (Liverpool, PhD 2013)

Collaborators

Ben Ashby (SFU)  
Tim Barraclough (Oxford)
Tom Bell (Imperial)
Sarah Benson-Amram (UBC)
Alyssa Gehman (Hakai Institute)
Laura Grieneisen (UBC Okanagan) 
Cara Haney (Pittsburgh)  
Chris Harley (UBC) 
Ben Matthews (UBC)  
Thomas Richards (Oxford)
Selena Sagan (UBC) 
Carolina Tropini (UBC)
Justyna Wolinska (FU Berlin)
Alison Woollard (Oxford)