We welcomed a total of 26 Postgraduate students to CSCI in October 2024, under the supervision of 14 PIs within the Institute.
These students are on a variety of PhD and Masters programmes, and are based in the following labs:
- Wellcome MRes + PhD Programme (currently doing rotations): 6 students
- Alcolea Group – 1 x PhD Student
- Barker Group – 1 x PhD Student
- Bulstrode Group – 1 x MPhil Student, 2 x PhD Students
- Duque-Correa Group – 1 x PhD Student
- Ghevaert Group – 1 x MPhil Student
- Gottgens Group – 1 x MPhil Student, 2 x PhD Students
- Hodson Group – 1 x PhD Student
- Huntly Group – 1 x PhD Student
- Laurenti Group – 1 x PhD Student
- Mendez-Ferrer Group – 1 x PhD Student
- Sinha Group – 2 x PhD Students
- Teichmann Group – 1 x MPhil Student, 1 x PhD Student
- Tyser Group – 1 x MPhil Student, 1 x PhD Student
- Vassiliou Group – 1 x PhD Student
After a week of induction sessions, they joined the PhD Symposium 2024, which took place on 24-25 October at the JCBC Lecture theatre. The Symposium is an annual event that features talks from existing PhD students and Industry sponsors, and a keynote talk from Group Leader at the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit and Professor of Haematology at the University of Oxford Professor Thomas Milne, titled: Aberrant enhancer activation drives transcriptional heterogeneity and impacts therapeutic outcomes in leukaemia.
In addition to talks, the students also present posters to Group Leaders and postdocs in the Institute, and are granted awards at the end of the event. This year's awards went to:
CSCI PhD Symposium Talk Award
Winning final-year Talk: Jethro Lundie-Brown
Runner-Up final-year Talk: Tasmin Sarkany
CSCI PhD Symposium Poster Award
Winning Poster Session One: Alex Kingston
Winning Poster Session Two: Gemma King
Interested in applying to do your PhD at The University of Cambridge?