People
Principal Investigator: João Pedro de Magalhães
I graduated in Microbiology from the Escola Superior de Biotecnologia in my hometown of Porto, Portugal, in 1999. My first experience in a research environment was as an intern (1998-1999) in the UnIGENe research group at the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology in Porto, where I worked on Machado-Joseph disease, a neurological disorder, under the supervision of Jorge Sequeiros.
As a doctoral fellow, I pursued my dream of unravelling the mechanisms of ageing by joining the Ageing and Stress Group at the University of Namur in Namur, Belgium. With Olivier Toussaint as my advisor, my work from 1999 to 2004 spanned molecular mechanisms of cellular senescence and response to oxidative stress, evolutionary models of ageing, and analyses of gene networks.
Fascinated by the genome and by the opportunities its sequencing opened, I then did a postdoc from 2004 to 2008 with genomics pioneer George Church at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. Succinctly, we developed high-throughput approaches for studying ageing, including computational tools and databases, statistical models of mortality, and comparative genomics methods for investigating the evolution of longevity.
In 2008, I joined the School of Biological Sciences (now called Institute of Integrative Biology) at the University of Liverpool to develop my own group on genomic approaches to ageing. Please browse this website for more information about our work.
You can find more about me in my personal website.
Current Lab Members
| Name | Join date | Position | E-mail (# = @) | Web |
| Shaun Calvert | Sep 2012 | PhD student | sc704#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Rui Cordeiro | Nov 2010 | Research assistant; Undergrad + Masters student (from U Aveiro) | rui.cordeiro#ua.pt | |
| Thomas Craig | Sep 2009 | Web programmer | thomas.craig#theramblingchronicles.co.uk | URL |
| J Pedro de Magalhães | Sep 2008 | Senior Lecturer | aging#liv.ac.uk | URL |
| Andrew Holmes | Sep 2009 | PhD student | andyholmes666#gmail.com | URL |
| Michael Keane | Aug 2011 | PhD student | mkeane#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Yang Li | Aug 2008 | Virtual intern; Masters student (2009-2010) | goldenflaw#gmail.com | URL |
| Mario Pinto | May 2013 | PhD student (from U Seville) | mariofa_#hotmail.com | |
| Joao Ribeiro | Feb 2013 | Masters student (from U Minho) | joaowuis#gmail.com | |
| Robi Tacutu | Nov 2011 | Postdoc | robi.tacutu#gmail.com | |
| Sipko van Dam | Sep 2009 | PhD student; Masters student (2009-2010) | sipkovandam#gmail.com | |
| Ana Viegas | Jan 2013 | PhD student | atbviegas#gmail.com | |
| Jingwei Wang | Jan 2013 | PhD student | jing_wei_wang#yahoo.com | |
| Daniel Wuttke | Oct 2009 | PhD student | age#liverpool.ac.uk |
Alumni
| Name | Dates | Position | Current affiliation | E-mail (# = @) | Web |
| Naki Adjirackor | 2009-2010 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | bs0u714c#student.liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Sven Berres | 2011 | Undergrad student (from Bingen U) | Bingen U | sven.bca#googlemail.com | |
| Conor Clafferty | 2009 | Summer student | U Liverpool | C.Clafferty#student.liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Susan Clarke | 2009-2010 | Masters student (from U Exeter) | U Exeter | susiexclarke#yahoo.co.uk | URL |
| Attila Csordas | 2009-2010 | Virtual intern | EBI | attilacsordas#gmail.com | |
| João Curado | 2007-2008 | Undergrad student (from ESB) | PhD student, CRG, Barcelona | joao.curado#gmail.com | |
| Lisa Downey | 2012-2013 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | hlldowne#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Christa Eekhuis | 2011-2012 | Masters student (from Utrecht U) | Utrecht U | c.a.eekhuis#students.uu.nl | |
| Ana Fonseca | 2009 | Undergrad student (from ESB) | IGC, Oeiras | ana18marta#gmail.com | |
| Alex Freitas | 2009-2010 | Visiting scholar (U Kent) & Masters student | Reader, U Kent | A.A.Freitas#kent.ac.uk | URL |
| Dale Gaskill | 2012-2013 | Masters student | Recruitment Management Group | dale_gaskill@hotmail.co.uk | |
| Pratul Ghosh | 2010-2011 | Virtual intern | IISER-Kolkata | ghosh.pratul#gmail.com | URL |
| Patrick Guest | 2010-2011 | Undergrad student | PhD student, St Andrews | P.Guest#student.liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Emily Hesketh | 2009-2010 | Undergrad student | PhD student, U Edinburgh | E.E.Hesketh#sms.ed.ac.uk | |
| Jordan Humphries | 2011-2012 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | bs0u9180#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Georges Janssens | 2009 | Masters student (from Utrecht U) | PhD student, U Groningen | georgesej#gmail.com | |
| Kyriacos Karmiotis | 2011-2012 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | bs0u912a#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Gerald Keil | 2012 | Summer student | U Liverpool | bs0u913b#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Holly Knight | 2012-2013 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | hlhknigh#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Kirthiga Kumar | 2010-2011 | Masters student | U Liverpool | kritika.sk#live.com | |
| Joana Lourenço | 2010 | Summer student | Masters student, UBI | joanalourenco7#gmail.com | |
| André Macedo | 2010-2012 | Masters student (from U Lisbon) | U Lisbon | linkin_andre#hotmail.com | |
| Nurulfiza Mat Isa | 2011-2012 | Postdoc | Lecturer, Universiti Putra Malaysia | nurulfiza#biotech.upm.edu.my | |
| Alex Matsuda | 2007-2008 | Undergrad student (from ESB) | Brigham & Women's H | alexjmats#gmail.com | |
| Ashley Mckenna | 2010-2011 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | bs0u81bd#student.liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Ricardo Miragaia | 2012 | Graduate intern | PhD student, MIT Portugal | rjudicemiragaia#gmail.com | |
| Caolan O' Carroll | 2009 | Summer student | U Liverpool | cs0u73b9#student.liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Venkatesh Patel | 2011 | Summer intern | Institute of Cancer Research | vgernekei#gmail.com | |
| Francisco Pinho | 2013 | Graduate intern | U Aveiro | fpinho#ua.pt | |
| Pedro Pinto | 2012-2013 | Graduate intern | U Aveiro | pedromiguel#ua.pt | |
| Michael Plank | 2009-2010 | Diploma student (from U Vienna) | PhD student, U Oxford | michael84p#web.de | |
| Sarah Power | 2012-2013 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | hlspower#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Simon Richardson | 2012-2013 | Graduate intern | U Liverpool | simonprichardson#live.com | |
| Joanne Rigby | 2009-2010 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | bs0u71e0#student.liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Kathryn Robert | 2010-2011 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | kat.robert#yahoo.co.uk | |
| Neidy Rodrigues | 2012 | Masters student (from U Aveiro) | U Aveiro | a36972#ua.pt | |
| Shraddha Sankhe | 2009-2010 | Virtual intern | U Leicester | sankhe.shraddha#yahoo.co.uk | |
| A Sofia Silva | 2010 | Summer student | PhD student, MIT Portugal | a.sofiag#hotmail.com | |
| Henry Stanley | 2011 | Graduate intern | College Hill | henry#henrystanley.com | URL |
| Soren Stirling | 2009-2011 | Undergrad student (from OU) | Birkbeck C | soren-stirling#hotmail.com | |
| Rute Teixeira | 2010-2011 | Masters student (from U Lisbon) | U Lisbon | rute.m.t#gmail.com | |
| Chintan Vora | 2009 | Virtual intern | Xcelris Labs | prof_bioinformatician#yahoo.co.uk | URL |
| Charlotte Whitehouse | 2010-2011 | Undergrad student | Masters student, U Liverpool | charlie_whitehouse#hotmail.co.uk | |
| Shona Wood | 2010-2013 | Postdoc | Postdoc, U Manchester | shona.wood#manchester.ac.uk | URL |
| Zaki Yunsi | 2011-2012 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | bs0u9204#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Jian Zhang | 2011-2012 | Undergrad student | U Liverpool | hljzhang#liverpool.ac.uk |