Our Team
Elena Torlai Triglia, PhD
Group leader
Elena trained as a computational and molecular biologist in the group of Prof. Ana Pombo at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (Germany), where she studied gene regulation in stem cells and during neuronal development. After her PhD, she moved to Boston (MA, US), where she studied how healthy cells change during disease development as a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, mentored by Prof. Brad Bernstein and Prof. Aviv Regev. Since Feb 2024, she is a Group Leader and Lecturer in Genetics, Genomics and Fundamental Cell Biology at QMUL.
Email: e.torlaitriglia@qmul.ac.uk
Tanzila Harun
PhD student - QMUL
Tanzila joined as a PhD student in the ETT Lab in May 2025 after completing a Masters in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences Research at King’s College London, where she characterised murine head and neck squamous carcinomas post fractionated radiotherapy. Her current research focuses on using computational and experimental approaches to study genetic and epigenetic regulation in melanomas.
Email: t.harun@qmul.ac.uk
Abhishek Mangroo
Bioinfomatics MSc student - QMUL
Abhishek earned his bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Kent before pursuing a master's in Bioinformatics at Queen Mary University of London. His interest in machine learning has grown throughout his studies, leading him to undertake a research project at the ETT Lab, where he is using convolutional neural networks to investigate links between cancer driver genotypes and tissue structure in melanoma cells.
Email: a.mangroo@se24.qmul.ac.uk
Hoi Yan Harriet Lee
Bioinfomatics MSc student - QMUL
Harriet is pursuing an MSc in Bioinformatics at Queen Mary University of London, after completing her BSc in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior at University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on developing computational tools for gene expression analysis, with her current project investigating expression patterns in single cell data.
Email: h.y.h.lee@se24.qmul.ac.uk
Isabella Maya Stewart
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholar
Isabella is currently pursuing a degree in Biomedical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London, with a strong interest in genetics and bioinformatics. She has joined the ETT lab for the summer, working on a research project focused on single-cell RNA sequencing analysis. Her work reflects a growing passion for computational biology and its applications in understanding complex genetic data.
Email: i.stewart@se23.qmul.ac.uk