Department of Genetics, Genomics and Cancer Sciences

Academic and emeritus staff

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Name Position Telephone Email Location
Professor Jacqui Shaw Head of Department 252 3148 js39@le.ac.uk ADR 213A
Dr Richard Badge Lecturer in Bioinformatics 252 5042 rmb19@le.ac.uk HB ---
Professor Christopher D Bayliss Professor in Bacterial Genetics 252 3465 cdb12@le.ac.uk ADR 121/119
Dr Sandra Beleza Lecturer in Genetics 294 4548 sdsb1@le.ac.uk ADR 111
Professor Anthony J Brookes Professor of Genetics 252 3401 ajb97@le.ac.uk ADR G25
Dr Moya Burns Lecturer 252 3939 mlb40@le.ac.uk HWB ---
Dr Ko-Fan Chen Lecturer in Neurogenetics - kc280@le.ac.uk -
Professor Martha Clokie Professor of Microbiology 252 2959 mrjc1@le.ac.uk MSB 106
Dr Sinéad Drea Senior Lecturer 252 3468 sd201@le.ac.uk HWB ---
Dr Roberto Feuda Associate Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow  252 3428 rf190@le.ac.uk ADR 127
Dr Fabian Freund Lecturer of Population Genomics - ff95@le.ac.uk ADR 131
Dr Ed Galyov Reader 252 2980 eg98@le.ac.uk MSB 107
Professor Flaviano Giorgini Professor of Neurogenetics 252 3485 fg36@le.ac.uk ADR 105
Dr Sarah Gretton Associate Professor of Natural Sciences
Programme Director
Admissions Tutor
252 2534 sng8@le.ac.uk HWB ---
Dr David Guttery Associate Professor 252 3181 dsg6@le.ac.uk ADR 103 
Dr Melissa Haines Academic Clinical Lecturer - mh508@le.ac.uk MSB 230
Dr Rob Hammond Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology 252 5302 rh225@le.ac.uk HB ---
Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison Professor 252 5079 phh4@le.ac.uk MSB 339
Professor James Higgins Professor of Plant Genetics 223 1296 jh555@le.ac.uk MSB 350B
Professor Edward J Hollox Professor of Genetics 252 3407 ejh33@le.ac.uk ADR G6
Dr Cheryl Hurkett Teaching Lecturer 373 6279 cph9@le.ac.uk MSB 333a
Dr Christian Jenul Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology 229 7537 cwj2@le.ac.uk ADR 121/112
Professor Mark A Jobling Professor of Genetics 252 3427 maj4@le.ac.uk HB 105
Professor Julian Ketley Professor of Bacterial Genetics 252 3434 ket@le.ac.uk ADR 118/121
Professor Charalambos P Kyriacou Professor of Behavioural Genetics 252 3430 cpk@le.ac.uk ADR 132
Professor Eamonn Mallon Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology 252 3488 ebm3@le.ac.uk ADR 220
Dr Hollie Marshall Lecturer in Genomics - hjm32@le.ac.uk ADR 108
Dr Tom Matheson Reader (Associate Professor) in Neurobiology 223 1263 tm75@le.ac.uk HWB ---
Dr Celia A May Lecturer in Genetics 252 3032 cam5@le.ac.uk HB ---
Dr Jonathan McDearmid Associate Professor in Neurobiology 252 3913 jrm33@le.ac.uk HWB ---
Dr Spyridon Megremis Lecturer in Microbial and Phage Biology 252 3477 sm1219@le.ac.uk MSB 121
Dr Andrew Millard Associate Professor in Bacteriophage Bioinformatics 252 5743 adm39@le.ac.uk MSB 235
Professor Julie Morrissey Professor in Microbial Genetics 252 3422 jam26@le.ac.uk ADR 120
Dr Will Norton Associate Professor of Animal Biology 252 5078 whjn1@le.ac.uk HWB ---
Professor Marco Oggioni Professor of Microbial Genetics 252 2261 mro5@le.ac.uk ADR 115
Dr Swidbert Ott Lecturer in Animal Biology
252 3479 so120@le.ac.uk HWB ---
Professor Ezio Rosato Professor 252 3351 er6@le.ac.uk ADR 124/129
Dr Katrin Schilcher Lecturer in Microbial Molecular Biology 252 3439 ks665@le.ac.uk
ADR 121/114
Dr Nicola Suter-Giorgini Associate Professor in Genetics and Education 252 5097 nms2@le.ac.uk HWB ---
Professor Christopher Talbot Professor of Radiotherapy Genetics 252 3433 cjt14@le.ac.uk ADR G9A
Professor David Twell Professor of Plant Biology 252 2281 twe@le.ac.uk MSB 350A

Emeritus and honorary

Name Position Telephone Email Location
Professor Julian Barwell Consultant in Clinical Genetics
Honorary Professor in Genetic Medicine
258 5697 julian.barwell@uhl-tr-nhs.uk LRI
Dr Tim Beck Honorary Lecturer - timbeck@le.ac.uk -
Professor Rhona Borts Emeritus Professor - rhb7@le.ac.uk -
Dr Carlo Breda Honorary Lecturer  - cb172@le.ac.uk
Dr Chris Cane Honorary Lecturer - crc@le.ac.uk -
Dr Peter Causey-Freeman Honorary Lecturer - pjf9@le.ac.uk  -
Dr Wen Chung  Honorary Senior Lecturer - wyc19@le.ac.uk  -
Professor Raymond Dalgleish Professor of Human Genetics - raymond.dalgleish@le.ac.uk -
Dr Richard J Gornall Honorary Associate Professor 252 3394
271 2933
rjg@le.ac.uk -
Professor Colin Hewitt Emeritus Professor - crah1@le.ac.uk -
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS Emeritus Professor - ajj@le.ac.uk -
Dr Marina Kriajevska  Honorary Lecturer - mk108@le.ac.uk -
Professor Ed Louis Emeritus Professor - ejl21@le.ac.uk -
Dr Peter Meacock Emeritus Reader - mea@le.ac.uk -
Professor Carlo Rivolta Honorary Visiting Professor - cr280@le.ac.uk -
Dr Nicola J Royle Honorary Associate Professor - njr@le.ac.uk -
Dr Trude Schwarzacher Honorary Associate Professor 252 2276 ts32@le.ac.uk -
Dr Eugene Tulchinsky Honorary Associate Professor - et32@le.ac.uk -
Dr Pradeep Vasudevan Honorary Reader - pcv2@le.ac.uk -
Dr Benjamin Warren Honorary Lecturer - bw120@le.aac.uk  -

Location key

  • ADR:  Adrian Building
  • HB:  Hodgkin Building
  • HWB:  Henry Wellcome Building
  • GDC:  George Davies Centre
  • LRI:  Leicester Royal Infirmary
  • MSB:  Maurice Shock Building

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