Our team

Prof. Kayla King
Dr. Mike Blazanin
CERC Post-doc (starting June 2024)
Dr. Melissa Chen
NSERC Banting Fellow



Juli Cohen
Lab Manager (Oxford lab)
Raina Dhesi
Directed Studies student



Manisha Dosanjh
Lab Manager (UBC lab)



Dr. Antoine Filion
CERC Post-doc



James Forward
Faculty of Science SURE Student
Leah Fulton
PhD Student
Samuel Greenrod
BBSRC DPhil Student
Dr. Toby Hector
NERC Post-doc
Chelsea Higgins
PhD student

Sarzana Hossain
PhD student
Serena Johnson
PhD student



Dr. Judy Li
CERC Post-doc (starting June 2024)
Dr. Cameron Smith
ERC Post-doc
Dominik Vinopal
PhD student




Carla Wagener
NERC DPhil student



Alex Wiebe
MSc student (starting Sept 2024)



Dr. Ian Will
ERC Post-doc





Past Lab Members

Kim Hoang (Oxford, US NSF fellow 2020-2024)
Judy Li (Oxford, DPhil 2024)
Emily Stevens (Oxford, ERC post-doc 2019-2023)
Kieran Bates (Oxford, St. Hilda’s Junior Research Fellow 2019-2023)
Georgia Drew (Oxford, ERC post-doc 2019-2023)
Duhita Sant (Oxford, NERC post-doc 2022-2023)
Andrea Gomez-Chamorro (Oxford, Swiss NSF fellow 2019-2021) 
Maria Ordovas-Montanes (Oxford, DPhil 2020)
Alice Ekroth (Oxford, DPhil 2020)
Charlotte Rafaluk-Mohr (Oxford, Leverhulme post-doc 2014-2019)
Jordan Sealey (Oxford, Technician 2017-2019)
Alex Betts (Oxford, DPhil 2017 and St. Hilda’s Junior Research Fellow 2017-2018)
Suzie Ford (Oxford, DPhil 2016 and Wellcome post-doc 2018-2020)
Dylan Dahan (Oxford, MA 2018)
Crystal Frost (Liverpool, post-doc 2012-2014)
Crystal Vincent (Oxford, technician 2014-2015)
Steve Parratt (Liverpool, PhD 2013)

Collaborators

Ben Ashby (SFU)  
Yossef Av-Gay (UBC)
Tim Barraclough (Oxford)
Tom Bell (Imperial)
Sarah Benson-Amram (UBC)
Alyssa Gehman (Hakai Institute)
Laura Grieneisen (UBC Okanagan) 
Cara Haney (Pittsburgh)  
Chris Harley (UBC) 
Ben Matthews (UBC)  
Thomas Richards (Oxford)
Selena Sagan (UBC) 
Carolina Tropini (UBC)
Justyna Wolinska (FU Berlin)
Alison Woollard (Oxford)