Principal Investigator
I joined the NSG in 2020 following its award of funding to one of my PhD students. In May 2022 I organised a public engagement event “Celebrating 30 years of NSG Support” during which talks about their research work were given by five of my colleagues and three PhD students who have benefitted from NSG financial support.
I studied Natural Science as an undergraduate, and did an MRes in Neuroscience and a PhD in Psychiatric Genetics at Edinburgh University. Subsequently I held post-doctoral positions at the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Cambridge University, and at the MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Oxford University, before coming to Nottingham University and the Queen’s Medical Centre to start my own group. My lab’s current focus is on genomic, epigenetic and RNA-regulated processes contributing to neurodevelopmental and cognitive disorders. I am passionate about research and finding advances which will help improve treatments for, for example, people with forms of dementia.
In my spare time I write (more) papers, potter in my garden and visit garden centres in the Cotswolds.
