CSCI welcomes new cohort of postgraduate students

A total of 26 new Postgraduate students started at CSCI in October 2022, under the supervision of 11 different 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
CCMR MRes + PhD Programme (currently doing rotations): 2 students
Barker lab: 1x MPhil student
Ghevaert lab: 1x MPhil student
Green lab: 2x MPhil students
Khaled lab: 2x PhD
Laurenti lab: 2x PhD
Mohorianu lab: 1x PhD
Sampaziotis lab: 2x PhD
Sinha lab: 2x PhD, 1x MPhil
Tzelepis lab: 1x PhD
Vassiliou lab: 2x PhD
Zilbauer lab: 1x PhD

After a week of induction sessions, they joined the PhD Symposium 2022, which took place on 3-4 November 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 former CSCI Director, Professor Austin Smith, titled: The Roadmap of Pluripotency.

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:

Proteintech CSCI PhD Symposium Talk Award (£500 Conference Travel Grant)

Winning final-year Talk: Frances England

Runner-Up final-year Talk: Ross McGinn

STEMCELL Technologies CSCI PhD Symposium Poster Award (£75 Love Cambridge Voucher)

Winning 1^st Year Poster: Mert Yucel

Winning 2^nd Year Poster: Jonathan Lee

Winning 3^rd Year Poster: Mariana Quiroga-Londono