Sofia is a PhD student from the Wellcome Trust's programme in Integrative Cell Mechanisms. Before joining the Swain group, she studied Biochemistry at University College London. Her work is co-supervised by Sander Granneman and focuses on a mechanism of co-transcriptional regulation of noise in gene expression during the adaptive response of budding yeast.
Arin is a PhD student jointly funded by the School of Biological Sciences and the Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship. He completed a BSc in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) at the University of Cambridge in 2019. Arin's project examines the metabolic cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae — defined by oscillations in intracellular metabolite levels — using single-cell microfluidics and incorporates time series analysis and classification, in collaboration with Diego Oyarzún at the School of Biological Sciences and School of Informatics. Arin's further research interests include systems and synthetic biology, and computational approaches to biological systems.
Yu is a PhD student funded by the Darwin Trust of Edinburgh. He completed a BSc in the Integrated Science Program (Biology) at Peking University in 2018 and is now working on the decision-making of budding yeast cells in mixtures of carbon sources, as well as on how cells regulate their ribosome levels in different nutrients.
Francois obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Paris-Orsay. Since then, he has worked on many multidisciplinary projects at the Curie Institute and the University of Edinburgh, mixing biology, engineering, microscopy, data analysis, and modelling. He is now investigating how yeast cells sense their environment to make decisions.
Ivan obtained his PhD in Molecular Genetics at Edinburgh and worked in the US, Dundee and Edinburgh on topics in the genetics and developmental biology of Drosophila. His research on embryonic development led to an interest in microscopy, particularly live cell imaging. He joined the lab in 2009 and has set up most of the experimental infrastructure. He manages the lab and researches several topics including fungal drug resistance, cellular decision-making, and the roles of cellular pH.
After a PhD in Mathematical Physics with Andy Parry at Imperial College, I postdoc'd with Reinhard Lipowsky at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, including a winter at Tel Aviv University with David Andelman, and then with Eric Siggia at the Rockefeller University. In 2002, I held my first faculty position at McGill University in the then Centre for Non-linear Dynamics under the wise mentorship of Leon Glass, Michael Guevara, and Mike Mackey. I returned to the UK late in 2008.