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 as a Lecturer 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 |
| Thomas Craig | Sep 2009 | Web programmer | thomas.craig#theramblingchronicles.co.uk | URL |
| Rui Cordeiro | Nov 2010 | Masters student (from U Aveiro); Undergrad student (2010-2011) | rui.cordeiro#ua.pt | |
| J Pedro de Magalhães | Sep 2008 | Lecturer | aging#liv.ac.uk | URL |
| Christa Eekhuis | Dec 2011 | Masters student (from Utrecht U) | c.a.eekhuis#students.uu.nl | |
| Andrew Holmes | Sep 2009 | PhD student | andyholmes666#gmail.com | URL |
| Jordan Humphries | Oct 2011 | Undergrad student | bs0u9180#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Kyriacos Karmiotis | Oct 2011 | Undergrad student | bs0u912a#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Michael Keane | Aug 2011 | PhD student | mkeane#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Yang Li | Aug 2008 | Virtual intern; Masters student (2009-2010) | goldenflaw#gmail.com | URL |
| André Macedo | Sep 2010 | Masters student (from U Lisbon) | linkin_andre#hotmail.com | |
| Ricardo Miragaia | Jan 2012 | Graduate intern | rjudicemiragaia#gmail.com | |
| Nurulfiza Mat Isa | Nov 2011 | Postdoc | arissa#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Robi Tacutu | Nov 2011 | Postdoc | robi.tacutu#gmail.com | |
| Sipko van Dam | Sep 2009 | PhD student; Masters student (2009-2010) | sipkovandam#gmail.com | |
| Shona Wood | May 2010 | Postdoc | swood#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Daniel Wuttke | Oct 2009 | PhD student | age#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Zaki Yunsi | Oct 2011 | Undergrad student | bs0u9204#liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Jian Zhang | Oct 2011 | Undergrad student | hljzhang#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 | |
| 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 |
| Pratul Ghosh | 2010-2011 | Virtual intern | IISER-Kolkata | ghosh.pratul#gmail.com | URL |
| Patrick Guest | 2010-2011 | Undergrad student | Masters student, U Liverpool | P.Guest#student.liverpool.ac.uk | |
| Emily Hesketh | 2009-2010 | Undergrad student | PhD student, U Edinburgh | E.E.Hesketh#sms.ed.ac.uk | |
| Georges Janssens | 2009 | Masters student (from Utrecht U) | PhD student, U Groningen | georgesej#gmail.com | |
| Kirthiga Kumar | 2010-2011 | Masters student | U Liverpool | kritika.sk#live.com | |
| Joana Lourenço | 2010 | Summer student | Masters student, UBI | joanalourenco7#gmail.com | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Michael Plank | 2009-2010 | Diploma student (from U Vienna) | PhD student, U Oxford | michael84p#web.de | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | UCL | 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 | U Liverpool | charlie_whitehouse#hotmail.co.uk |