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We’d like to highlight Dr Dagmara Korona this week, whose work in the Clinical Genetics Group is helping to advance our understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying human craniofacial disorders.

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April 29, 2026 at 8:26 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Laura Ciacchi, a postdoctoral scientist at the #MRCWIMM and a recent recipient of an HFSP early career fellowship.

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February 10, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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This week we’re featuring Antonio Rodríguez Romera, a postdoctoral researcher in Beth Psaila’s lab at the #MRCWIMM.

@antoniorromera.bsky.social @bethpsaila.bsky.social @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky #Haematology #CancerResearch #CellBiology #Megakaryocytes
April 21, 2026 at 8:51 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Hans Ng, a postdoctoral researcher in the Anne Goriely Lab at the #MRCWIMM.

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January 13, 2026 at 10:09 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re introducing Yuqi Shen, a postdoctoral researcher at Beth Psaila Group here at the #MRCWIMM.

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March 24, 2026 at 10:03 AM
#ScientistSpotlight: This week we’re introducing Verena Körber, one of the newest Group Leaders at the MRC WIMM.

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November 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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This week we’re featuring Anna Aulicino, a postdoctoral researcher in the Simmons Group at #MRCWIMM.

#WIMMSpotlight #WIMMCommunity #Microbiology #GutBiology #InfectiousDisease #Salmonella #Organoids #AcademicSky @ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
May 5, 2026 at 8:29 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Katie Croft, a #DPhil Student in the Claus Nerlov Lab at the #MRCWIMM.

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February 17, 2026 at 10:08 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Carla Cohen, a computational researcher based in the David Sims Lab at the #MRCWIMM and Professor Sarah Snelling’s Lab at the Botnar Institute.

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April 14, 2026 at 9:08 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Robert Watson, an Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Oncology, University of Oxford.

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February 3, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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This week we’re featuring David Fawkner-Corbett, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Surgery.

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February 24, 2026 at 10:19 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Paula Gomez Castro, a #DPhil student in the Simmons Group at #MRCWIMM.

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March 10, 2026 at 9:56 AM
March 3, 2026 at 10:09 AM
#ScientistSpotlight
This week we’re introducing Anna Li, a postdoctoral researcher in the Yin Dong Lab at the #MRCWIMM.

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#WIMMSpotlight #WIMMCommunity #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #IonChannels #Neuroscience

Photo credit: Susan Maxwell
December 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Verena Lentsch, an SNSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Simmons Group at the #MRCWIMM. 🧬

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June 16, 2026 at 9:06 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Bora Özcan, a DPhil student jointly supervised by the Chakraverty and Davies Groups at #MRCWIMM. His research uses CRISPR based platforms to explore how DNA and gene activity are regulated.

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October 6, 2026 at 9:01 AM
June 19, 1994 - The Independent - A profile on Dr. Richard Dawkins and his bride, Lalla Ward.
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August 18, 2026 at 7:00 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Emily Neil, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the #MRCWIMM

Emily is working on a particularly aggressive and treatment resistant subtype of childhood B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B ALL), defined by the TCF3::HLF gene fusion.
June 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Vy Wien Lai, a #DPhil student jointly supervised by the Antanaviciute and Simmons labs at the #MRCWIMM.

#SingleCellBiology #WomenInScience #MRCWIMM @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky @vywien-lai.bsky.social
May 26, 2026 at 9:18 AM
#ScientistSpotlight
This week, we’d like to give a special shout-out to Dr Abdullah Khan who recently started his own research group after being awarded a Wellcome Career Development Award! 🎉

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November 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪
This week we’re featuring Svea Wupper. Svea first joined the WIMM from January to March 2023 as a Master’ student, completing a lab rotation. In October 2024, she returned as a #PhD student to work in the laboratory of Jan Rehwinkel.
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May 19, 2026 at 9:13 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re delighted to feature Pramila Rijal. Pramila is a Principal Investigator at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford

#AkademicSky #Immunology #InfluenzaResearch #Vaccines #AntibodyResearch #InfectiousDisease #EarlyCareerResearch #MRCWIMM
June 9, 2026 at 9:07 AM
#ScientistSpotlight 🧪
Meet Alison Kay, a health experience researcher at the #MRCWIMM. Alison works with scientists to understand how molecular discoveries affect clinicians, patients, and families in real life.

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January 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM
#ScientistSpotlight
This week we’re introducing Benjamin McMaster, a DPhil student at Hashem Koohy's Group here at the #MRCWIMM.

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January 6, 2026 at 9:16 AM