Our Team
Our lab members are working on a range of projects to understand mitotic entry and cancer and to develop new tools to study cell cycle control.
Helfrid Hochegger
Lab Head
Research Interests:
Leading research on cell cycle control mechanisms and their implications in cancer biology. Likes microscopes, large datasets and coding.
Robert Zach
Postdoc
Research Interests:
Rob is an expert on Greatwall kinase inhibition and studies how to target the mitotic entry network in cancer therapy.
Sam Dias
Postdoc
Research Interests:
Sam is screening for new mitotic regulators and venturing into unchartered metabolism territory.
Megan Meredith
Lab Technician
Research Interests:
Megan holds the world record in stable cell line generation and likes setting up complicated high content genetic assays.
Georgios Kalogiannis
PhD Student
Research Interests:
Georgios is exploring new cell cycle regulators and moving towards the P53 universe.
Sam Jones
PhD Student
Research Interests:
Sam is exploring the activation mechanisms of Greatwall Kinase.
Lisandra Gadelkarim
MSc Student
Research Interests:
Lisa is analysing splicing variants of a new cell cycle regulator.
Daniella Ee
MSc Student
Research Interests:
Dani is investigating the consequences of induced expression of a putative oncogene.
Valentina Braila
MSc Student
Research Interests:
Valentina is studying the consequences of ENSA/ARPP19 loss in acute myeloid leukaemia.
Alumni
Jo Renaut
—Jo passed her viva in January 2026 and now works full-time teaching programming.
Fabio Echegaray Iturra
—PhD graduate (2020). Postdoc at Columbia University in the Aydogan lab, studying oscillators in Drosophila embryos. [link]