Rosana Collepardo
Group Leader
Associate Professor—Depts. of Genetics and Chemistry
Winton Advanced Research Fellow—Dept. of Physics
Rosana studied chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and obtained an MSc and DPhil in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof David Manolopoulos. She then did postdoctoral work at New York University as a Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellow with Prof Tamar Schlick, at the Institute for Biomedical Research-Barcelona Supercomputing Centre as a Marie Curie Fellow with Prof Modesto Orozco, and at the University of Cambridge joining the groups of Prof Daan Frenkel and David Wales. In 2016 she started her group as a Winton Advanced Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, and in 2019 obtained an ERC starting grant. Soon after, she moved to the Departments of Chemistry and Genetics as an Assistant Professor.
Rosana's main research interests lie in understanding the molecular mechanisms that determine the packaging of DNA insides cells, DNA structure, epigenetic phenomena, and the relationship between the structure of the genome and gene expression regulation. Her technical expertise is on molecular modelling, coarse-grained model development, atomistic simulations, and multiscale modelling.
Independent Research Fellows
Jorge R. Espinosa
Oppenheimer Research Fellow (2019-present)
Roger Ekins Fellow at Emmanuel College (2019-present)
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2018-2019)
Doctor in Physics, Complutense University of Madrid
Jorge works on liquid-liquid phase separation of protein mixtures
Jerelle A. Joseph
Junior Research Fellow at King's College (2020-present)
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2019-2020)
Doctor in Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Jerelle works on liquid-liquid phase separation of DNA/RNA-protein mixtures
Jan Huertas
Herchel Smith Fellow (2022-present)
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2021-2022)
Phd, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Jan works on liquid-liquid phase separation of transcription factors and chromatin
Postdocs
Rob Welch
https://robwel.ch
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2021-present)
PhD in Physics, University of Leeds
Rob works on nucleosome-resolution chromatin coarse-grained modelling and phase separation
Dr Stephen Farr
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2021-present)
EPSRC-funded PhD student of the CDT in Computational Methods for Materials Scholar (2017-2020)
MPhil in Scientific Computing (2016-2017)
Steve has now developed a high-resolution coarse-grained model of chromatin with near-chemical accuracy that is unique and very powerful....stay tuned! He also develops Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, and Hybrid Monte Carlo simulation codes.
Graduate Students
Kieran Russell
PhD Student (2021-)
EPSRC-funded PhD student in Chemistry (2021-2024)
Co-supervised by Jerelle A. Joseph
Pin Yu Chew
PhD Student (2021-)
Winton and Oppenheimer-funded PhD student in Chemistry (2021-2024)
Co-supervised by Aleks Reinhardt
Ignacio Sanchez Burgos
PhD Student (2020-)
EPSRC-funded PhD student in Physics (2020-2023)
Co-supervised by Jorge R. Espinosa
Maria Julia Maristany
PhD Student (2020-)
Winton-funded PhD student in Physics (2020-2023)
Co-supervised by Jerelle A. Joseph
Esmae Woods
PhD Student (2019-)
EPSRC-funded PhD student in Physics (2019-2022)
Co-supervised by David Wales
Anne Aguirre
CDT Student (2019-)
ERC-funded student of the CDT (MPhil+PhD) in Computational Methods for Materials (2019-2023)
Charles Phillips
CDT Student (2019-)
ERC-funded student of the CDT (MPhil+PhD) in Computational Methods for Materials (2019-2023)
Undergraduate Students
Our collaborators
- Tuomas Knowles (University of Cambridge)
- Srinjan Basu (University of Cambridge)
- Ernest Laue (University of Cambridge)
- Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge)
- David Wales (University of Cambridge)
- Tamar Schlick (New York University, USA)
- Shankar Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge)
- Debayan Chakraborty (University of Texas at Austin)
- Sergei Grigoryev (Penn State University, USA)
- Modesto Orozco (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain)
- Guillem Portella (University of Cambridge)
- Michele Vendruscolo (University of Cambridge)
- Richard Friend (University of Cambridge)
Previous collaborators
- David Manolopoulos (University of Oxford)
- Thomas Markland (Stanford University)
Past Members
Dr Adiran Garaizar
Currently: Postdoc at Bayer
EPSRC and Winton-funded PhD student in Physics (2018-2022)
MPhil in Scientific Computing (2016-2017)
Dr Akshay Sridhar
Currently: Postdoc at Erik Lindahl's lab
Winton-funded PhD student in Physics (2017-2020)
MPhil in Scientific Computing (2016-2017)
Zahra Fahmi
Currently: Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2019-2021)
Doctor in Computational Biology, The Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge
Sophie Merchant
Visiting Summer Student (2019)
Part II Physics Student
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Sivapalan Chelvaniththilan
MPhil in Physics (2016-2018)
Gates Scholar
Co-supervised by Prof. Daan Frenkel
Miguel García Ortegón
MPhil in Scientific Computing (2015-2016)
La Caixa Scholar
Co-supervised by Prof. Ulrich Keyser
Currently: PhD student in Data Science at Cambridge University