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Memorable lab outings, Current and Past Lab Members
April 2024 Sofia Esteban-Serna, a PhD student in the lab, won a poster prize at the Microbiology Society conferences in Edinburgh presenting her awesome poster on Nrd1-Nab3 and how they reduce noise in gene expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Congratulations (again)!! Second award for this project (and this poster).	March 2024 Stuart McKellar, my former PhD student, and his partner came to visit us in Edinburgh and we went to our local watering hole, the Scottish Malt whisky society. Besides drinking a few single-malt and single cask whiskies, we also sampled some of the society's blends, which were very impressive .... So was the bill.....
March 2024 A wee lab wine tasting event to celebrate Niki's thesis submission! She will be moving on to working for a company soon. She has been with the lab for around 5 years and we are very sad to se her leave.	March 2024 After tasting wine one of course has to have some food! Off to the Greek in Leith!
May 2022 Party on the Kings Buildings Campus to celebrate our RBPome paper getting accepted in Nature Communications! Picture of all the members of my lab at that time and where they were from.	Loads of selfies made that day!
June 2021 The lab's first outing since the end of the many lockdowns we had!	September 2018 Erika Urdaneta's leaving party. We went to a Whisky tasting at the Scottish Malt Whisky society in Edinburgh!
December 2017 Granneman lab celebrating positive outcomes from MRCSRF (Sander) and EMBO LTF (Ross) fellowship applications. After the Christmas dinner we ended up in our favorite watering hole, the Scottish Malt Whisky society.	June 2017 Granneman lab retreat in York. Picture was taken using a film that generates very cool and high-quality black and white pictures.
March 2015 Granneman lab says goodbye to Christel Sirocchi. Last lab outing with Christel in a nice restaurant in Edinburgh.	December 2014 “Sjoelen” in the pub! Rob brought his Dutch shuffleboard to the pub when we went on a Granneman lab night out. Initially the locals were a bit confused..but after a couple of pints everybody was shuffling away! Not all of the stones landed where they should. It is obvious who dominated the game....
April 2013 Lab outing to Saint Andrews! On the left. Elena Burlacu and Alina Zaplatina. Right: Sander Granneman, Maarten Tuijtel and Ralph Hector.
Current lab members Sander Granneman Group Leader and lab bioinformatician and doing this and doing that.... Gabriele Bagusinskaite EASTBIO PhD student (2022 - present) Is working on RNases and the dynamics of RNA decay in S. aureus! Sofia Esteban Serna Wellcome Trust iCM PhD student (2021- present) Is working on understanding the role or RNA-binding proteins in regulating gene expression noise. Wei Li Darwin Trust PhD student (2021 - 2024) Post-doc (2024- present) Working on transcription factors from nasty bugs! Mehak Chauhan Darwin Trust PhD student (2021 - present) Working on nasty toxins! Hugh McCaughan Wellcome Trust ECAT PhD student (2019 - present) Is working on RBPs and antibiotic resistance! Has also made a phenominal contribution to COVID-19 research!!! Co-superviser Joshua Mareschal Wellcome Trust iCM Phd student (shared with Chris Sibley lab). Is working on CLIP, 2C and neuronal cells! Visitors Theresa-Marie Froehlich Visiting ERASMUS student from Tubingen Univerisity (2019 - 2020) Ross Cordiner Visiting post-doctoral fellow from Torben Heick Jensen’s lab (2017 - 2018). He obtained an EMBO and Marie Curie LTF fellowships for his project! Erika Urdaneta Another very talented visiting PhD student from Benedikt Beckmann's lab (2018) Funded by an EMBO short-term fellowship. Fredrik Lackmann A very talented visiting PhD student from Lars Wieslander's lab (2013 - 2014) Funded by an EMBO short-term fellowship Past lab members Niki Christopoulou Darwin Trust PhD student (2019 - 2024) Worked on RBPs and antibiotic resistance! Now working for a SynBio company in Edinburgh. Pedro Arede Rei MRC Research Assistant (2018 - 2023) Gave massive support to the projects in the lab and co-authored three papers! Now a research assistant in Little France. Liangcui Chu MRC Post-doctoral Research Associate (2018 - 2023) Found hundreds of new RBPs in S. aureus! Now a post-doc in Edinburgh focussing on bioinformatics. Holly Kay (Gerben van Ooijen's lab) (2018 - 2022) Mad about plants and UV cross-linking. Agata Wawszczyk (David Gally's lab) (2017 - 2022) Working on an awesome secretion system and learning all about RNA structure probing. Pujitha Raja (Thamarai Dorai-Schneider's lab) (2018 - 2023) UV cross-linking bugs that can cause nasty pneumonia! Ivayla Ivanova MRC Post-doctoral Research Associate (2018 - present) Loved post-transcriptional modifications and doing high-throughput sequencing studies. Currently working as an editor at Developmental Cell. Magnus Gwynne School of Biological Sciences MSc student (2020 - 2021). Is working with Hanne to develop new methods for fine-tuning heterologous gene expression in yeast! Now PhD student in York studying non-coding RNAs. Hanne Grosemans Wellcome Trust BioMed-SynBio Technician (2019 - 2021) Now senior research assistant in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Stuart McKellar Wellcome Trust PhD and MRC Post-doctoral Research Associate (2016-2020) Was CLASHing with pathogenic bacteria. Now post-doctoral researcher in Hannah Mischo's lab at the King's College in London. Tove Widén MSc student (2018-2019) Worked on RNA-binding proteins in yeast and doing some Synthetic Biology! Ira Iosub Wellcome Trust PhD student (2014 - 2018) Founds some very interesting ncRNAs connecting nutrient sensing and stress in E. coli! Now post-doctoral researcher in Nick Luscombe's lab at the CRICK institute in London. Alina Selega Shared EPSRC PhD student with Guido Sanguinetti (2015 - 2017) Did the hardcore mathematical modeling in the lab! Now a Post-doctoral researcher in Canada! Thomas Mourant Biochemistry honours student (2018) Was involved in setting up reporter assays in pathogenic bacteria. He is now going to London to do an MSc! Rob van Nues BBSRC & Wellcome Trust post-doctoral fellow (2014 - 2016) Is giving yeast and bacteria lots of UV! Is a hardcore Slackware Linux fan! Now Wellcome Trust Post-doctoral researcher in Liz Baynes’s lab. Elena Burlacu Wellcome Trust PhD student (2012 - 2016) Was applying ChemModSeq to yeast RNPs! Post-doctoral researcher in Torben Heick Jensen's lab in Aarhus, Denmark. Working on neuronal cells. Jule Karen Nieken ERASMUS student (2016 - 2017). Worked together with Ira on sRNAs in E. coli Now PhD student in Hiro Ohkura's lab Erica de Leau Wellcome Trust Research Associate (2014 - present) Was learning how to generically manipulate yeast and how to make RNASeq libraries. Now a technician in Justin Goodrich’s lab. Christel Sirocchi ERASMUS student (2014 - 2015) Was doing amazing work at the bench with bacteria and produced tons of awesome code! Another Linux fan! Is a co-author on a Nature Methods paper! Ralph Hector Wellcome Trust Research Associate (2011 - 2014) Probed the dynamics of 40S Ribosome assembly... He loved doing primer extensions..... could not get enough of them... Now a senior post-doctoral researcher in Edinburgh. Maarten Tuijtel ERASMUS student (2013) A physics student from Delft responsible for benchmarking the ChemModSeq pipeline... After his PhD in Leiden he came back to Edinburgh to take on the job as EM facility Manager. Alina Zaplatina ERASMUS student (2012-2013) Helped with probing the structure of the longest ncRNA in yeast... Now PhD student in Cologne. Matthew Pierce Biotechnology honours student (2012) Produced tons of >= 95% pure protein and got his first taste of cloning nightmares... Stamatina Fragkogianni Bioinformatics Masters student (2012) Made pyReadCounters 10x faster... Did her PhD in Edinburgh and is now a Post-doctoral fellow!

Memorable lab outings, Current and Past Lab Members

April 2024

Sofia Esteban-Serna, a PhD student in the lab, won a poster prize at the Microbiology Society conferences in Edinburgh presenting her awesome poster on Nrd1-Nab3 and how they reduce noise in gene expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Congratulations (again)!! Second award for this project (and this poster).

March 2024

Stuart McKellar, my former PhD student, and his partner came to visit us in Edinburgh and we went to our local watering hole, the Scottish Malt whisky society. Besides drinking a few single-malt and single cask whiskies, we also sampled some of the society's blends, which were very impressive .... So was the bill.....

March 2024

A wee lab wine tasting event to celebrate Niki's thesis submission! She will be moving on to working for a company soon. She has been with the lab for around 5 years and we are very sad to se her leave.

March 2024

After tasting wine one of course has to have some food! Off to the Greek in Leith!

May 2022

Party on the Kings Buildings Campus to celebrate our RBPome paper getting accepted in Nature Communications! Picture of all the members of my lab at that time and where they were from.

Loads of selfies made that day!

June 2021

The lab's first outing since the end of the many lockdowns we had!

September 2018

Erika Urdaneta's leaving party. We went to a Whisky tasting at the Scottish Malt Whisky society in Edinburgh!

December 2017

Granneman lab celebrating positive outcomes from MRCSRF (Sander) and EMBO LTF (Ross) fellowship applications.
After the Christmas dinner we ended up in our favorite watering hole, the Scottish Malt Whisky society.

June 2017

Granneman lab retreat in York.

Picture was taken using a film that generates very cool and high-quality black and white pictures.

March 2015

Granneman lab says goodbye to Christel Sirocchi. Last lab outing with Christel in a nice restaurant in Edinburgh.

December 2014

“Sjoelen” in the pub! Rob brought his Dutch shuffleboard to the pub when we went on a Granneman lab night out. Initially the locals were a bit confused..but after a couple of pints everybody was shuffling away! Not all of the stones landed where they should.

It is obvious who dominated the game....

April 2013

Lab outing to Saint Andrews!

On the left. Elena Burlacu and Alina Zaplatina. Right: Sander Granneman, Maarten Tuijtel and Ralph Hector.

Current lab members

Sander Granneman

Group Leader and lab bioinformatician and doing this and doing that....

Gabriele Bagusinskaite

EASTBIO PhD student (2022 - present)

Is working on RNases and the dynamics of RNA decay in S. aureus!

Sofia Esteban Serna

Wellcome Trust iCM PhD student (2021- present)

Is working on understanding the role or RNA-binding proteins in regulating gene expression noise.

Wei Li

Darwin Trust PhD student (2021 - 2024)

Post-doc (2024- present)

Working on transcription factors from nasty bugs!

Mehak Chauhan

Darwin Trust PhD student (2021 - present)

Working on nasty toxins!

Hugh McCaughan

Wellcome Trust ECAT PhD student (2019 - present)

Is working on RBPs and antibiotic resistance!

Has also made a phenominal contribution to COVID-19 research!!!

Co-superviser

Joshua Mareschal

Wellcome Trust iCM Phd student (shared with Chris Sibley lab).

Is working on CLIP, 2C and neuronal cells!

Visitors

Theresa-Marie Froehlich

Visiting ERASMUS student from Tubingen Univerisity (2019 - 2020)

Ross Cordiner

Visiting post-doctoral fellow from Torben Heick Jensen’s lab (2017 - 2018).

He obtained an EMBO and Marie Curie LTF fellowships for his project!

Erika Urdaneta

Another very talented visiting PhD student from Benedikt Beckmann's lab (2018)

Funded by an EMBO short-term fellowship.

Fredrik Lackmann

A very talented visiting PhD student from Lars Wieslander's lab (2013 - 2014)

Funded by an EMBO short-term fellowship

Past lab members

Niki Christopoulou

Darwin Trust PhD student (2019 - 2024)

Worked on RBPs and antibiotic resistance!

Now working for a SynBio company in Edinburgh.

Pedro Arede Rei

MRC Research Assistant (2018 - 2023)

Gave massive support to the projects in the lab and co-authored three papers!

Now a research assistant in Little France.

Liangcui Chu

MRC Post-doctoral Research Associate (2018 - 2023)

Found hundreds of new RBPs in S. aureus!

Now a post-doc in Edinburgh focussing on bioinformatics.

Holly Kay (Gerben van Ooijen's lab) (2018 - 2022)

Mad about plants and UV cross-linking.

Agata Wawszczyk (David Gally's lab) (2017 - 2022)

Working on an awesome secretion system and learning all about RNA structure probing.

Pujitha Raja (Thamarai Dorai-Schneider's lab) (2018 - 2023)

UV cross-linking bugs that can cause nasty pneumonia!

Ivayla Ivanova

MRC Post-doctoral Research Associate (2018 - present)

Loved post-transcriptional modifications and doing high-throughput sequencing studies.

Currently working as an editor at Developmental Cell.

Magnus Gwynne

School of Biological Sciences MSc student (2020 - 2021).

Is working with Hanne to develop new methods for fine-tuning heterologous gene expression in yeast!

Now PhD student in York studying non-coding RNAs.

Hanne Grosemans

Wellcome Trust BioMed-SynBio Technician (2019 - 2021)

Now senior research assistant in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Stuart McKellar

Wellcome Trust PhD and MRC Post-doctoral Research Associate (2016-2020)

Was CLASHing with pathogenic bacteria.

Now post-doctoral researcher in Hannah Mischo's lab at the King's College in London.

Tove Widén

MSc student (2018-2019)

Worked on RNA-binding proteins in yeast and doing some Synthetic Biology!

Ira Iosub

Wellcome Trust PhD student (2014 - 2018)

Founds some very interesting ncRNAs connecting nutrient sensing and stress in E. coli!

Now post-doctoral researcher in Nick Luscombe's lab at the CRICK institute in London.

Alina Selega

Shared EPSRC PhD student with Guido Sanguinetti (2015 - 2017)

Did the hardcore mathematical modeling in the lab!

Now a Post-doctoral researcher in Canada!

Thomas Mourant

Biochemistry honours student (2018)

Was involved in setting up reporter assays in pathogenic bacteria.

He is now going to London to do an MSc!

Rob van Nues

BBSRC & Wellcome Trust post-doctoral fellow (2014 - 2016)

Is giving yeast and bacteria lots of UV!

Is a hardcore Slackware Linux fan!

Now Wellcome Trust Post-doctoral researcher in Liz Baynes’s lab.

Elena Burlacu

Wellcome Trust PhD student (2012 - 2016)

Was applying ChemModSeq to yeast RNPs!

Post-doctoral researcher in Torben Heick Jensen's lab in Aarhus, Denmark. Working on neuronal cells.

Jule Karen Nieken

ERASMUS student (2016 - 2017).

Worked together with Ira on sRNAs in E. coli

Now PhD student in Hiro Ohkura's lab

Erica de Leau

Wellcome Trust Research Associate (2014 - present)

Was learning how to generically manipulate yeast and how to make RNASeq libraries.

Now a technician in Justin Goodrich’s lab.

Christel Sirocchi

ERASMUS student (2014 - 2015)

Was doing amazing work at the bench with bacteria and produced tons of awesome code!

Another Linux fan! Is a co-author on a Nature Methods paper!

Ralph Hector

Wellcome Trust Research Associate (2011 - 2014)

Probed the dynamics of 40S Ribosome assembly...

He loved doing primer extensions..... could not get enough of them...

Now a senior post-doctoral researcher in Edinburgh.

Maarten Tuijtel

ERASMUS student (2013)

A physics student from Delft responsible for benchmarking the ChemModSeq pipeline...

After his PhD in Leiden he came back to Edinburgh to take on the job as EM facility Manager.

Alina Zaplatina

ERASMUS student (2012-2013)

Helped with probing the structure of the longest ncRNA in yeast...

Now PhD student in Cologne.

Matthew Pierce

Biotechnology honours student (2012)

Produced tons of >= 95% pure protein and got his first taste of cloning nightmares...

Stamatina Fragkogianni

Bioinformatics Masters student (2012)

Made pyReadCounters 10x faster...

Did her PhD in Edinburgh and is now a Post-doctoral fellow!