Welcome to Dr. Julie Jerber
The Merkle lab welcomes Julie Jerber, who will work as a joint postdoc with Dan Gaffney (WT-Sanger Institute) and Oli Stegle (EMBO-EBI) to analyse the contributions of common genetic variants to neurodegenerative …
Florian awarded the CJ Herrick award in neuroanatomy
Florian was honoured to receive the Charles Judson Herrick award in Neuroanatomy at the American Association of Anatomists conference (Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2017): http://www.anatomy.org/annual-meeting-2017.html Previous awardees have included Mark Tessier-Lavigne, Cori …
Florian to present CamBioScience keynote 21/11
Florian will give the Keynote presentation at the upcoming CamBioScience intensive course on Genome Editing on Monday, November 21 at 6PM GDT.
Florian to deliver whole exome sequencing webinar 22/11
Florian and Kevin Eggan will present a webinar sponsored by StemCell Technologies on Tuesday, November 22 at 11AM EST entitled “Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals Selective Pressures and Dominant Negative Mutations …
Frances defends M.Phil successfully
Congratulations to Frances St. George-Hyslop, who successfully defended her M.Phil. project from the Farooqi and Merkle laboratories. Frances is now pursuing her Ph.D. in brain evolution at the University of …
Bas Brouwers receives EMBO Fellowship
Bas Brouwers received an EMBO Fellowship for his project to study obesity-associated mutations in the serotonin 2C receptor, to be performed with Prof. Sadaf Farooqi and in the Merkle Lab.