Team and News

 

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Anjali Hinch

Anjali is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow and a recipient of the Wellcome-Beit prize. She studied maths and computer science at IIT Bombay and MIT and worked as a Strategist at Goldman Sachs. She has a DPhil in Statistics and Genomic Medicine from Oxford. Outside of work, she enjoys cryptic crosswords, spin cycling, and family board games.

 

Callum Henfrey

Bio coming soon. 

 

Martin Houlard

Martin has an abiding interest in chromatin organisation and its regulation during meiosis. He is a senior postdoc and leads the experimental work in collaboration with Myers lab. He is especially interested in uncovering the mechanisms underlying the roles of PRDM9 in meiotic break induction and repair. 

 

Bella Maudlin

Bio coming soon. 

 

Emily Print

Within the lab, Emily is most interested in the complex process of ageing and its influence on de novo mutation. Outside the lab, you’ll likely find her indulging in one too many cappuccinos at a coffee shop, seeking sunlight in any green space she can find, recharging through yoga, or transforming from computational scientist to expressive artist in the kitchen.

 

Jakob Weiss

Bio coming soon. 

 

 

Lab alumni

Qianer Lu 

MSc in Statistics 2024 

Abed Mosa Al Refaee

MPhil in Genomic Medicine and Statistics 2024 

Gang Zhang

 

 

News

April 2025
We are delighted to welcome Jakob to the lab for his GMS rotation. 
March 2025
Callum gave a standout talk at the Dunn School Postdoc Symposium. 
February 2025
We are thrilled to welcome Bella to the lab for her postdoctoral work. 
October 2024
We are delighted to welcome Callum to the lab for his postdoctoral work. Anjali gave an invited talk at the Frontiers in Human Genetics conference (Columbia University, New York).
September 2024
We are so proud of Abed and Qianer. Following his very successful MPhil Thesis, Abed is heading to London for a PhD at Kings College. Qianer has been awarded a distinction on her MSc in Statistics project. Congratulations to you both! 
August 2024
Emily is joining the lab for her DPhil following her rotation project on human mutation. Welcome back, Emily!
July 2024
We are going to FASEB Recombination. Anjali is giving an invited talk on germline mutations and Martin is presenting his poster on the missing link between PRDM9 and DNA breaks.
June 2024
Congratulations to Martin for winning the prestigious EPA Postdoc Research Grant! Exciting research to follow, watch this space.  
May 2024
We are recruiting! We are looking for an enthusiastic mathematician, statistician, computer scientist, or physicist to join us. See here for more details or drop Anjali a line. 
April 2024
Abed has joined our lab for his MSc in Genomic Medicine. Welcome, Abed! 
March 2024
Two amazing talks given by members of the team: 
Martin on "Homologous recombination during mouse meiosis: where to cut and how to fix it" 
Emily on "Recombination, mutations, and hotspot death" 
January 2024
Emily has joined our lab for a GMS project. Welcome, Emily! 
December 2023
We are delighted to share the news that our lab will soon be moving to the Dunn School of Pathology. Exciting times ahead! 
October 2023
Our methodology for generating gene knockouts has been accepted for publication in Genome Research. Congrats to the team and collaborators! 
September 2023
Our work on human de novo mutations and meiotic recombination has been accepted for publication in Science. Congrats to the team and collaborators! 
June 2023
We are going to EMBO Meiosis. Anjali will give a talk on the nature and impact of mutations arising due to meiotic DNA breaks.
May 2023 
Callum gave an excellent talk on the evolution of particular types of mutations in the human lineage. 
Mar 2023
Callum has joined the lab for a GMS rotation. Welcome, Callum! 
Feb 2023
We’re going to the Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics meeting. Anjali will co-chair the session on “Population and statistical genetics”.
July 2022
Gang Zhang has joined our lab. Welcome!
May 2022
We’re going to the GRC. Anjali will give a talk on de novo mutations due to meiotic breaks.
April 2022
We’re going to the Rank Symposium. Ipsita, Zach, and Anjali will be giving talks.
March 2022
We’re starting our new lab investigating germline DNA at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University.