People
Dan Bose
I started my lab at Sheffield in March 2017. Before moving to Sheffield, I worked as a Post-doc in Prof. Shelley Berger’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and with Prof Xiaodong Zhang and Prof. Dale Wigley at Imperial College London.
I was awarded a Sir Henry Dale Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society in 2018.
2017-present: Research Fellow, SInFoNiA, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
2011-2016: Postdoctoral Research, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
2009-2011: Research Associate, Imperial College London, London, UK.
2004-2008: PhD Student, Imperial College London, London, UK
Katie Gelder
I started my PhD in the Bose Lab in October 2019. Previously, I completed an Integrated Master’s degree at the University of Sheffield studying Biochemistry and Genetics. As part of my Master’s year I completed a year in industry working at Eli Lilly, researching Alzheimer’s disease. I also previously undertook a summer research project at the University of Sheffield Medical School working with Professor Endre Kiss-Toth studying immunology.
2019 - present: PhD student, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
2018 - 2019: Master’s student in Industry, Eli Lilly, Erl Wood, Windelsham, Surrey.
2015 - 2019: Undergraduate student, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Nicola Carruthers
I joined the Bose lab in October 2019 as a PhD student. Before this I completed my undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Genetics, here in Sheffield. For my third year project I worked in Dr. Ewald Hettema’s lab where I studied protein orthologs in yeast.
2019 - present: PhD student, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield
2016 - 2019: Undergraduate student, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield
Laura Harrison
I joined the Bose lab in October 2020 as a PhD student. Previously, I completed a BSc in Biochemistry and Genetics and an MSc in Human and Molecular Genetics at the University of Sheffield. During my MSc I studied the role of RNA-binding proteins in motor neurone disease and undertook a work placement in the oncology department at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a laboratory technician at the University of Surrey.
2020 – Present: PhD student, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield
2020: Laboratory Technician, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
2018- 2019: Postgraduate Taught student, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
2015 – 2018: Undergraduate student, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Alumni
Molly John
I joined the Bose Lab in October 2020 for my Master’s year, studying Biochemistry and Genetics. In my project I’m working on developing Cas13 systems for targeting eRNAs, hopefully giving a reliable method to study them and their role at enhancers.
Previously I’ve worked on tagging proteins in a summer project in the Department of Chemistry, looked at mutations in malaria in Dr. Odom’s lab at WUSTL, and studied ribosomal proteins just next door with Dr. Emma Thomson in my 3rd year project.
Luc Costello-Heaven
I am a 4th year MBiolSci Molecular Biology student at Sheffield, working with the Bose Lab on developing nascent RNA sequencing with Oxford Nanopore Technology.
I completed my 3rd year lab project in NMR with Prof. Mike Williamson and prior to this undertook a summer placement in the Cell Fate & Gene Regulation lab at the Francis Crick Institute.
Monika Olejnik
I joined the Bose lab in October 2020. For my MBiolSci degree, I am working on visualising transcription factor binding at enhancers using reconstituted nucleosomes and the magic of Electron Microscopy.
I’ve been learning to tame proteins (with varying success) since my summer placement in Dr Bergeron’s lab back in 2018, and throughout my 3rd year research project in the Casson lab here in MBB.
I enjoy afternoon walks in Bole Hills, preferably with a hot beverage in hand.
Peyton Goddard, Georgie Hulme, Harry Heath
Peyton, Harry and Georgie joined us in October 2019 to work on their 3rd year lab placement.
For their project they are purifying histones and reconstituting chromatin arrays for functional assays and negative-stain electron microscopy.
Christopher Callaghan
Chris joined us for his 4th year MBiolSci project. He developed methods for probing RNA structure with single molecule FRET as part of our collaboration with Tim Craggs.
Chris graduated in 2019 with a 1st class degree, and was awarded the Mike Fowler Medal for creative science! Since graduation, Chris has been working as a science teaching assistant; he plans to go on a journey of self-discovery in South East Asia in the new year.
Naimah Hameed
Naimah joined the lab in March for her project placement as part of the MBB genomic medicine masters.
Since graduating with a 1st (Distinction), she has been working for Source Biosystems and is planning to start a PhD. Naimah still visits us regularly, and has added the word ‘fuddle’ to our vocabulary!
Sabina Musial
Sabina joined us as on a highly competitive Genetics Society UK summer studentship at the end of her 1st year of undergraduate studies. The studentship also included a two day symposium in Edinburgh where Sabina presented her data.
Since finishing her project, Sabina has been working on her 2nd year undergraduate course in MBB and has since completed a summer placement at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
Morgan Rustidge, Josh Zilate, James Taylor
Morgan, James and Josh joined us for their 3rd year lab placement projects at the end of 2018.
Morgan graduated in 2019 with a 2:1 honours degree and is now completing an MSc; James and Josh are completing 4th Year MBiolSci degrees.
Imogen Gatehouse
Imo joined us as a SURE undergraduate rotation student in June 2018 at the end of her second year as an undergraduate in MBB.
Since leaving the group, she has graduated with a 2:1 degree and is completing an MSc degree in Medical Genetics.
Christian Todaro
Christian joined the lab as a 4th Year MBiolSci student, following on from a 3 year undergraduate at the University of Sheffield. Christian is originally from just down the road in Derby, and will be working on in vitro assembly of transcriptional co-actvator complexes. In his spare time he is actively involved in charity work with the University students union.
Since Graduating, Chris has been travelling around Australia.