People

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)