Staff & students
A/Prof Guillaume Méric (he/him)
Group leader; Senior Lecturer in Human Microbiome
Dr Camila Gazolla Volpiano (she/her)
Postdoctoral researcher; based at Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne
Phoebe Cheong
June 2024-now; PhD student; Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Co-supervised with Prof Francine Marques (main supervisor), Dr Camargo Tavares, Dr Li
Zak Bishop-Wright
2026; Final year project student; BSc Biochemistry, University of Bath
Jake Isherwood
2026; Masters student; MSc Molecular Biosciences (Bioinformatics)
Co-supervised with Prof Tom Williams, University of Bath
Past lab members, visiting scientists, daily mentoring, etc.
2025-now, University of Bath, UK
- 2025 Thomas Mullin, Final year BSc student
- 2025 Pachalo Sibakwe, Final year BSc student
2018-2025, Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute, Australia (within Inouye lab, then independent)
- 2024 Dr Viktoria Weinberger, Visiting PhD student from Graz, Austria
- 2023-2024 Dr Myo Naung, Postdoctoral researcher
- 2022-2023 John-Luis Moretti, Administrative Officer
- 2018-2020 Dr Youwen (Owen) Qin, as PhD student, mentee & collaborator
- 2019-2023 Dr Fachrul Muhamad, as PhD student, mentee & collaborator
- 2018-2022 Dr Yang Liu, as PhD student, mentee & collaborator
- 2018-2021 Dr Jason Grealey, as PhD student, mentee & collaborator
2016-2018, University of Bath, UK (within Sheppard lab)
- 2016-2018 Dr Evangelos Mourkas, PhD student, co-supervised with Sam Sheppard
- 2017 Dr Patrick Hooper, BSc project student
- 2016 Prof Gabriel Rossi, as Visiting DVM/PhD student from São Paulo State University, Brazil
- 2017 Dr Diana Espadinha, as visiting PhD student from ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal
- 2016-2017 Dr Amandine Thépault, as visiting PhD student from ANSES, Ploufragran, France
- 2017-2018 Dr Diego Flórez Cuadrado, as visiting PhD student from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
- 2017 Dr Karina Frahm Kirk, as visiting MD/PhD from Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
2012-2016, Swansea University Medical School, UK (within Sheppard lab)
- 2013-2016 A/Prof Leonardos Mageiros, as PhD student, co-supervised with Sam Sheppard
- 2015-2016 Hannah Evans, as BSc project student in Medical Genetics
- 2014-2015 Dr Jake Ireland, as BSc project student in Medical Genetics
- 2012-2013 Kasonde Chibelushi, as BSc student in Medical Genetics
- 2012-2013 Dr Alicia Torralbo Montoro, as visiting PhD student from Universidad de Córdoba, Spain
- 2012-2013 Huw Barton, as BSc project student
