Ian is a PhD student funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). He completed both an MChem in Medicinal and Biological Chemistry and an MSc in Bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh. Ian is studying time-series analysis using data from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and is co-supervised by Ramon Grima.
Julien earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Lille, focusing on mathematical modelling of cellular responses to oxidative stress. He is currently employed at AMOLF in the Netherlands, working with Pieter Rein ten Wolde, and is a long-term visitor investigating how cells predict in fluctuating environments.
Lidya is a PhD student funded by the Darwin Trust of Edinburgh, working on the sugar-sensing networks of budding yeast in mixtures of carbon sources. She completed her MSc in Biochemical Engineering at Addis Ababa University.
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.
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.
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.