
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
2025 Thomas Mullin, BSc Biology (2nd year)
2025 Pachalo Sibakwe, BSc Biochemistry with Professional Placement (4th year)
Alumni, past supervised visiting scientists, daily mentoring, etc.
2025-: University of Bath
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)