News

May 2025
Elena at C31: Genomics Mechanisms of Disease
Elena presented at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Science Cluster Conference: Genomics Mechanisms of Disease - lots of excellent scientific interactions and feedback, in the beautiful Favrholm campus close to Copenhagen.

May 2025
Welcome to the lab!
Tanzila Harun joins the lab as the first PhD student in the group, supported by QMUL S&E New Talent Research Enabling Scheme: stay tuned for exciting science!

Apr 2025
AMS Springboard Award
The lab was awarded the
Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard award. It will support our research on the genetic and epigenetic regulation of cell behaviours in melanoma.

Mar 2025
Welcome to the lab: Bioinformatics MSc projects!
Three students from QMUL's MSc in Bioinformatics join the lab: they will integrate different data types (genomics/ histopathology/.. ) to understand disease mechanisms.

Jan 2025
The website is live!
We look forward to connecting with gene regulation enthusiasts, cell plasticity lovers, everyone intersted in understanding disease development with a molecular lens, and more.

Oct 2024
First semester teaching students from the
Molecular Cell Biology MSc, plus grant deadlines.. Busy times in the lab.

July 2024
The engineered melanocytes arrived from Boston, safe and frozen: horray!

June 2024
Elena becomes the lead of the Genomics of Diseases Theme in the QMUL Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics.


April 2024
Setting up the wet lab: the pipettes started arriving.. and a fridge!

March 2024
The lab becomes a Core Member of QMUL Centre for Epigenetics - check out our page on its website

Feb 2024
It begins! The lab opens up in the Blizard Institute, part of Queen Mary University of London. We are in the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences,
and associated with the Centre for Cell Biology and Cutaneous Research, part of the Blizard Institute. Stay tuned!