Our Team

Dr. Daniel 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.

2025-present: Co-director: Nucleic Acids Institute, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

2017-2025: Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow, 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

he/him, @danbose.bsky.social

Team Members

Grace Gilbert

2022 - present: PhD student, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK.

Rabiatul Adawiyah

2023 - present: PhD student, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK.

Owen Godwin

2024-present

Brychan Evans

Alumni

Alumni: Postdocs

Dr. Katie Gelder, PhD.

2023- 2025: PDRA, Bose Lab, University of Sheffield, UK.

Dr. Nicola Carruthers, PhD.

2023- 2025: PDRA, Bose Lab, University of Sheffield, UK. Nicola left us in Autumn 2025 and is now working as a postdoctoral research scientist at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Archna Shah, PhD

2021 - 2024: PDRA, Bose Lab, University of Sheffield, UK. Working on cryoEM of chromatin regulatory complexes. Archna left us in summer 2024, and is now working as a PDRA at Imperial College London.

Alumni: PhD students

Dr. Rajpinder Singh, PhD.

2023-2025: PhD Student, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Raj joined the lab to complete his PhD after her former supervisor Izzy Jayasinghe left the University. He graduated in spring 2025.

Dr. Laura Harrison, PhD

2020 - 2025: PhD student, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Laura graduated in 2025 and is now working as a postdoctoral research scientist at Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin, Erlangen in Germany.

Dr. Katie Gelder, PhD.

2019 - 2024: PhD student, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Katie graduated in 2024 and transferred to a postdoctoral position with our team.

Dr. Nicola Carruthers, PhD.

2019 - 2023: PhD student, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Nicola graduated in 2024 and transferred to a postdoctoral position with our team.

Dr. Petra Celadova, PhD.

2017-2022: PhD student, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Petra graduated in Summer 2022.

Dr. Alex Parker, PhD.

2021-2022: PhD student, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Alex joined the lab to complete her PhD in cryoEM after her former supervisor Julien Bergeron left the University. She graduated in 2022.

Alumni: 4th Year MBiolSci (Integrated Masters) students

Thomas Evans

2024-2025: Graduated with a 1st class degree in 2024. 4th Year MBiolSci extended lab project.

Vic Ferdinand

2023-2024: Graduated with a 1st class degree in 2024. 4th Year MBiolSci extended lab project.

Eve Dixon

2022-2023: 4th Year MBiolSci, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK.

Tomás Rocha-Lawrence

2022-2023: 4th Year MBiolSci, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK.

Connie Treanor

2022-2023: 4th Year MBiolSci, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK.

Sophie Ball

2021-2022: 4th Year MBiolSci, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Graduated Summer 2022 with a 2:1 honours degree.

Molly John

2020-2021: 4th Year MBiolSci, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Graduated Summer 2021 with a 1st class degree.

Monika Olejnik

2020-2021: 4th Year MBiolSci, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Graduated Summer 2021 with a 2:1 honours degree.

Luc Costello-Heaven

2019-2020: 4th Year MBiolSci, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Chris graduated in Summer 2020 with a 1st class degree, and was awarded the Mike Fowler Medal for creative science.

Christopher Callaghan

2018-2019: 4th Year MBiolSci, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Chris graduated in Summer 2019 with a 1st class degree, and was awarded the Mike Fowler Medal for creative science.

Christian Todaro

2017-2018: 4th Year MBiolSci, School of Biosciences, MCB, University of Sheffield, UK. Chris graduated in Summer 2018 with a 1st class degree

Alumni: MSc students

Naimah Hameed

Naimah joined the lab in March 2018 for her project placement as part of the Genomic Medicine MSc program. She graduated in January 2019 with a 1st (Distinction).

Alumni: Final Year Undergraduate Students

2019: Peyton Goddard, Georgie Hulme, Harry Heath

2018: Morgan Rustidge, Josh Zilate, James Taylor

Alumni: Summer Research Projects

We often accept and support undergraduate students on funded summer placements. Please get in touch if you are interested in discussing a summer placement.

Summer 2022:

Polly Dowdle (University of Leeds, Generation Research Summer Studentship)

Beckie Hunt (SURE summer studentship)

Summer 2018:

Sabina Musial (Genetics Society Summer studentship)

Imogen Gatehouse (SURE summer studentship)

Summer 2017:

Jonathan Ridgway (SURE summer studentship)