People

Philip Zegerman

Born in London. My undergraduate degree was in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge. I stayed in Cambridge for my PhD in the lab of Tony Kouzarides at the Wellcome/CRC Institute, working on chromatin modifying factors in human cells. For my postdoc work I switched field and organism to work on DNA replication in budding yeast with John Diffley at CRUK Clare Hall in London. I started at the Gurdon Institute on 1st April 2009.

philip.zegerman@gurdon.cam.ac.uk

Davide Mantiero

Born in Italy. I obtained my M.Sc. at the University of Milan. For my PhD, I worked on the DNA damage response in yeast in Maria Pia Longhese’s lab in Milan. After spending one and half years in Johannes Walter’s Lab at Harvard Medical School working on recombination in Xenopus, I joined Philip Zegerman’s lab as a postdoc at the Gurdon in October 2009.

d.mantiero@gurdon.cam.ac.uk

Vincent Gaggioli.

From France. I did my PhD at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris with Olivier Hyrien where I studied the effect of Topoisomerase inhibition on DNA replication in Xenopus egg extracts. I joined Philip Zegerman’s lab as a postdoc at the Gurdon in February 2010.

v.gaggioli@gurdon.cam.ac.uk

Barbara Schöpf

From the city of Wemding in Germany, I studied at the University of Freiburg. For my PhD I moved to Switzerland to work with Joe Jiricny at the ETH in Zurich where I studied DNA repair and chromatin assembly in human cells. I joined Philip Zegerman’s lab as a postdoc in September 2010.

b.schoepf@gurdon.cam.ac.uk

Christine Hänni

The first Zegerman lab PhD student. Christine is from the town of Murten in Switzerland. Christine studied at the ETH in Zurich. She joined the Zegerman lab in May 2011.

c.hanni@gurdon.cam.ac.uk

Oleg Kovalevskiy

Oleg was born in the city of Izhevsk, 1000 km East of Moscow. A city famous for being the home of Mikhael Kalashnikov and still the most important manufacturing centre of ammunition in Russia. Oleg turned down a career making AK-47s to instead do a PhD in the Russian academy of science in Pushchino. He then moved to York, UK for a 2 year postdoc with Dr Fred Antson, determining the structure of RNA binding proteins. Oleg joined the Zegerman lab in August 2011.