CCS update in Eva Hoffmann Group, January 2016

New staff

Dr Jenny Gruhn
Jenny completed both her undergraduate and PhD work at Washington State University in the USA. Her PhD work in the lab of Drs. Terry Hassold and Pat Hut focused on sex-specific differences in human meiotic recombination via cytogenetic analysis of early meiotic events. After completing her doctorate, she joined Eva Hoffmann’s lab as a post-doc at the University of Sussex for a brief time, before following Dr. Hoffmann to the University of Copenhagen. She is currently working in collaboration with researchers at multiple fertility clinics, including Prof. Claus Yding Andersen at the Copenhagen University Hospital Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, to assess how recombination and age affect chromosome segregation in human female meiosis.

Becca Leask
Becca completed her BSc in Biochemistry in 2008 at the University of Sussex in the UK. She spent a year in Prof. Aiden Doherty’s lab at the Genome Damage and Stability Centre, looking at the regulation of NHEJ in yeast. She then took five years away from research to teach science to 11-18 year olds, before returning to the University of Sussex to complete an MSc in Cancer Cell Biology. Becca joined Eva’s lab in September 2015 and is currently in the 1st year of her PhD assessing recombination and chromosome segregation mechanisms in meiosis I.

Amruta Shrikhande
Amruta completed her undergraduate studies at Mumbai University in India, followed by a MSc in Genetic manipulation and molecular cell biology at the University of Sussex. After her MSc she worked as a research technician in Prof. Penny Jeggo’s lab, in university of Sussex. She joined Eva Hoffmann’s lab for her PhD in 2013 and is currently in 3rd year of her PhD. She is working on assessing genome-wide regulation of mutations rates in yeast and human