Join the lab!
We are currently seeking highly motivated postdocs and MSc/PhD students with strong interest in curiosity driven research to join our diverse research team. We work highly interdisciplinary and collaborative and welcome scientist from diverse backgrounds (mol/cell/dev biology, computational, physics, engineering). For informal enquiries email michael[dot]smutny[at]warwick[dot]ac[dot]uk
Current Lab Members
At a lab function in 2023
Enduring the pandemic in 2021
Michael Smutny | Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor at Warwick Medical School and a Wellcome-Warwick Quantitative Biomedicine Programme (QBP) faculty member. I am interested in processes that shape the early zebrafish embryo.
Bridget Evans | Postdoc
I am investigating the role of cell extrusions and apoptosis in early embryonic tissue formation.
Sissi Spiritosanto | MIBTP PhD student
I am studying molecular and cellular mechanisms of collective cell migration.
Jack Petts-Lewis | ARAP PhD student
I am working on gene regulation and patterning of the early forebrain using multiplexed RNAseq in collaboration with Kok Hao Chen (Genome Institute of Singapore).
Laura Evers | INS student
I am studying the feedback between nuclear mechanics and cell fate specification.
Jacob Mudenge | MBio student
I am interested in the role of membrane dynamics in segregation of progenitor cells.
Alumni
Postdocs: Yanina Alvarez; Arthur King | PhD students: Angus Inman (MRC DTP); Emma Proctor (MAS-CDT) | MSc students: Jonatan Bennaroch (MRC-DTP); Hannah Burnage (MIBTP) | Internships: Ozdecan Darilmaz
