
A/Prof Guillaume Méric (he/him)
Group Leader

Dr Camila Gazolla Volpiano (she/her)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Phoebe Cheong
PhD student; Monash University; June 2024-now
Co-supervised with Prof Marques (main supervisor), Dr Camargo Tavares, Dr Li
Final year undergraduate and MSc project students
2026 Jake Isherwood (MSc Bioinformatics student, co-supervised with Prof Tom Williams)
Alumni, past supervised visiting scientists, daily mentoring, etc.
2025-: University of Bath
2025 Thomas Mullin, BSc Biology (2nd year)
2025 Pachalo Sibakwe, BSc Biochemistry with Professional Placement (4th year)
2018-2025: Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute (within Inouye Lab, then independent group)
- Dr Viktoria Weinberger (as visiting PhD student from Graz, Austria, 2024)
- Dr Myo Naung (as postdoc, 2023-2024)
- Mr John-Luis Moretti (as Administrative Officer, 2022-2023)
- Dr Youwen (Owen) Qin (as PhD student, 2018-2020); mentoring & collaboration
- Dr Fachrul Muhamad (as PhD student, 2019-2023); mentoring & collaboration
- Dr Yang Liu (as PhD student, 2018-2022); mentoring & collaboration
- Dr Jason Grealey (as PhD student, 2018-2021); mentoring & collaboration
2016-2018: University of Bath, UK (within Sheppard Lab)
- Dr Evangelos Mourkas (as PhD student); co-supervised with Sam Sheppard; now post-doc Uppsala University
- Dr Patrick Hooper (as BSc student in Biology; 2017); now PhD student National History Museum London & University of Bath
- Prof Gabriel Rossi (as Visiting DVM/PhD student from São Paulo State University, Brazil; 2016); now Universidade Vila Veilha, Boa Vista, Brazil
- Dr Diana Espadinha (as Visiting PhD student from ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; 2017), now Public Health Laboratory HSE Dublin, Ireland
- Dr Amandine Thépault (as Visiting PhD student from ANSES, Ploufragran, France; 2016-2017)
- Dr Diego Flórez Cuadrado (as Visiting PhD student from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; 2017), now at ROVI Pharma, Spain
- Dr Karina Frahm Kirk (as Visiting MD/PhD from Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark; 2017)
2012-2016: Swansea University Medical School, UK (within Sheppard Lab)
- A/Prof Leonardos Mageiros (as PhD student; 2013-2016); co-supervised with Sam Sheppard; now The American College of Greece, Athens
- Hannah Evans (as BSc student in Medical Genetics; 2015-2016)
- Dr Jake Ireland (as BSc student in Medical Genetics; 2014-2015); now UNSW Sydney, Australia.
- Kasonde Chibelushi (as BSc student in Medical Genetics; 2013-2012)
- Dr Alicia Torralbo Montoro (as Visiting PhD student from Universidad de Córdoba (Spain); 2012-2013)
- Huw Barton (as BSc student; 2012-2013)