Location

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Lab Info

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Lab Retreat and Reunion

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Our Institute

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Lab Members

• Location:
We are situated in the centre of Cambridge, on the Old Addenbrookes site, near to many of the other science departments of Cambridge University (map). Lab address and contact details:

• About the Lab
Our lab is funded mostly by grants from Cancer Research UK (the biggest cancer charity in the world). The lab has a maximum number of 14 researchers. The ratio varies between PhD students and postdocs but the majority tends to be postdocs. Members of the lab come from all over the world. We have had lab members from France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Cyprus, Albania, Turkey, South Africa, USA, Australia, Canada, Italy, Poland, Brazil and Indonesia as well as from the UK. If you want to know where these people ended up after they left the lab please look at here. The vast majority of postdocs have gone on to get their own lab or equivalent and most PhD students have gone on to do postdocs. Find out more about Tony Kouzarides

Our research focuses on the regulation of chromatin during the process of transcription (See Research and Publications). We have regular Friday lab meetings where we discuss the science currently going on, and annual retreats where we discuss the type of science questions we should be addressing.

• Annual Lab Retreat
We have an annual lab retreat were we discuss new strategies, new directions and new techniques. Retreats often take place abroad. Stansted airport and St Pancras International station are within easy reach of Cambridge therefore many European destinations are accessible and affordable. We usually go for four days. In recent years we have been to Italy, Portugal, Spain, Holland, France and Belgium. We practice the principle of: work hard, play hard! Click HERE for a list of past retreats and on the links to see some pictures.

• Lab Reunion
In 2001 we instigated the TK lab reunion. The concept is that all past lab members are invited back to a reunion. This includes a scientific section in which anyone who wants can present their current work, and also a party. Almost all past members who were in the lab from 1991-2001 came to the first reunion. The intention is to have a reunion every five years. The second reunion was held in 2006 and the third in January 2011. Click HERE to see reunion pictures.

• The Gurdon Institute
As a place to work, the Institute is a wonderful environment. It has an international feel with many nationalities involved. It has an easy-going, relaxed atmosphere with many inter-lab collaborations taking place. The major themes are Cancer (funded by Cancer Research UK) and Development Biology (funded by The Wellcome Trust).
As a group, we belong to the Cancer Research UK side of the Wellcome Trust / Cancer Research UK Institute. Other groups in this section are Steve Jackson’s (interested in DNA repair mechanisms), Jon Pines' (interested in the cell cycle), Jordan Raff's (interested in the centrosome) and Eric Miska's (interested in regulatory micro RNAs). The Institute also has a number of groups studying Developmental Biology issues in C. elegans, Drosophila, frogs and mice.
There are seminars each Wednesday lunchtime given by members of groups within the Institute, in order to inform others of scientific progress in each lab. There is also an annual Institute Retreat where everyone goes away to a destination at least two hours away from Cambridge (so none can get back). There are talks by each group leader and posters by lab members. At the retreat there are also many fun events such as a treasure hunt, sports and a band for evening entertainment.

• Current Laboratory Members: (Click HERE for more lab member info)

Prof Tony Kouzarides	(British)	t.kouzarides@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Alistair Cook	(British)	aac22@cam.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Bannister	(British)	a.bannister@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Dr Helena Santos-Rosa	(Spanish)	hsrs2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Maria Christophorou	(Cypriot)	m.christophorou@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Dr Emma Viré	(Belgian)	ev252@cam.ac.uk
Dr Gonçalo Castelo-Branco	(Portuguese)	gc399@cam.ac.uk
Dr Peter Tessarz	(German)	p.tessarz@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Dr Mark Dawson	(Australian)	mafd2@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Dr Sam Robson	(British)	s.robson@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Dr Marc Schneider	(German)	m.schneider@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Isaia Barbieri	(Italian)	i.barbieri@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Beata Wyspianska	(Polish)	b.wyspianska@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Paulo Amaral	(Brazillian)	p.amaral@gurdon.cam.ac.uk
Sri Lestari	(Indonesian)	sal65@cam.ac.uk