News
June 2024
Congratulations to MSc student Abirami Kannan for winning a poster prize at the BCGB symposium!
May 2024
Eva will speak at the Genome Damage and Stability Centre 21st Birthday Symposium, 12-13 September 2024
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/schools/life-sciences/news-events-seminars/events/gdsc-symposium
May 2024
We have been involved in a new paper now on BioRxiv!
USP50 suppresses alternative RecQ helicase use and deleterious DNA2 activity during replication
July 2023
Congrats to our MSci student Zenon for graduating with a first class degree.
June 2023
Welcome to Abirami Kannan who is starting an MSc by Research in our lab!
March 2023
Congratulations to PhD student Rosanna Wilkins for winning Best Year 3 Student Talk at the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences PGR festival! Well deserved Rosie, we're super proud!
January 2023
We say goodbye to Dr Ann Liza Piberger,. Liza is a food chemist and toxicologist by training and has been interested in DNA damage and its repair since her PhD. Liza joined our lab in 2016, and is now moving to the lab of Jo Morris.
September 2022
Richard speaks at the UK DNA Replication meeting 2022 in Birmingham.
August 2022
Eva speaks at the Japan-UK Regulation through Chromatin Conference 2022 in Leicester.
June 2022
Welcome to Kexin Ma and Devanshi Brahmbhatt, who'll be doing summer projects in our lab!
May 2022
Our lab has been awarded part of a £1 million MRC grant to study the bigger picture of oncogene-induced replication stress in cancer-relevant models:
https://www.ukri.org/news/integrated-human-disease-research-projects-awarded-7-million/
This is a multi-scale collaboration with the labs of Prof Joanna Parish (University of Birmingham), Dr Sarah McCellland (Queen Mary University London) and Dr Michael Boemo (University of Cambridge).
April 2022
Our new review on R-loops is out in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology!
January 2022
Welcome to new lab members Khadija Sabat and Mansi Patel. Khadija is a joint PhD student with the University of Leicester, and Mansi is doing her BMedSci Year3 project in our lab.
December 2021
MRC DiMEN-DTP studentship avaliable as part of a collaboration project on a novel player in replication stress and based in our collaborator's lab in Liverpool, with visits to Birmingham.
"Exploring roles for the novel USP7 interactor TCEAL4 in transcription-replication conflicts and its impact on targeted therapies in cancer"
June/July 2021
Congrats to Sophie Riddell for passing the viva for her MSci and graduating first class!
May 2021
Congrats to Siobhan Plass for completing her Master of Research!
March 2021
Eva will be speaking at this virtual symposium: Friend or Foe: Transcription and RNA Meet DNA Replication and Repair - 9 - 12 March 2021
https://www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2021/EES21-02/programme/index.html
November 2020
October 2020
Welcome to our new starters: Rosanna Wilkins (PhD) and Sophie Riddell (MSci). Also welcome back to the lab Siobhan Plass (MRes).
Sep 2020
We ARE in the lab - we have now space for up to 5 people working in our lab space.
June 2020
Congratulations to our former Intercalating BMedSci student Magnus Yap for securing a highly competitive Cancer Research UK MB-PhD studentship!
June 2020
Our group is getting ready to resume some restricted oprations in the lab - some of us will soon be back on campus!
Mar 2020
Our lab pace is now closed as the University of Birmingham has suspended its on-campus activities. The group continues to operate online. You can contact us by email as before, but please be patient!
Mar 2020
Eva was invited to speak at two meetings in France this year, sadly both have been cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis.
3rd course on Genome Instability and Human Disease. 20-24 April, Institut Curie, Paris
DINGO Meeting "Diversity of DNA damage signaling pathways". 19-20 May 2020, Marseille
Jan 2020
Apply here for a fully funded PhD in the lab (UK/EU applicants):
Jan 2020
Postdoc Liza to speak at the UK Genome Stability Network meeting in Cambridge.
Sept 2019
New paper out on BioRxiv: PrimPol-dependent single-stranded gap formation mediates homologous recombination at bulky DNA adducts
Sept 2019
Eva presents a talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting Eukaryotic DNA Replication & Genome Maintenance, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Aug 2019
"Investigating the effects of a de-regulated transcription machinery on replication stress in cancer"
We are excited to have been awarded a CRUK Programme Foundation Award worth £1,243,213!
July 2019
Congrats to Akhil for successfully defending his PhD!
May 2019
Congratulations to Akhil for submitting his PhD thesis!
March 2019
"Characterising novel recombination pathways at DNA adducts of the environmental mutagen BDPE"
We are thrilled to have been awarded an MRC project grant worth £364,836 to continue Liza's work!
Special congratulations to Liza for her continued success in obtaining funding. Liza is Researcher co-investigator (RCoI), a status is aimed at researchers who are currently not eligible to be a principal investigator (PI), but who provide significant intellectual input to grant writing and design.
February 2019
Lab outing to Ghetto Golf
December 2018
Christmas lunch
October 2018
PhD student Akhil and Eva present at the EMBO Workshop "RNA and genome maintenance", Mainz, Germany
Poster prize for the work of former MRes student Claire Tang at the EMBO Workshop "RNA and genome maintenance" !
September 2018
Postdoc Liza presents at the 2018 UKEMS Conference, University of Oxford and gives a talk at the 2018 German DNA Repair Meeting, Karlsruhe , Germany
June 2018
Lab outing to Golden Putter Mini Golf - Akhil wins yet again!
June 2018
PhD student Akhil presents a talk at the BCGB Symposium, University of Birmingham
Postdoc Liza wins a poster prize at the BCGB Symposium
March 2018
Postdoc Liza presents at the 2018 EEMGS Meeting, Potsdam, Germany
Jan 2016
Postdoc Becky's amazing leaving cake - she's been with the lab for 5 years!
Sep 2015
Congratulations to Postdoc Liza for being awarded a DFG Postdoctoral Research Fellowship!