For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
Our nascent RNAs contain over a million transposable elements, genetic migrants with a vast potential for evolutionary innovations. Their interactions with RNA-binding proteins are largely behind such innovations, which take place in many small steps.
Inspired by insights gained from RNA, we migrate and collaborate across research fields, backgrounds, and nationalities. We bring together our different perspectives, as it is the spirit of connecting and sharing that counts the most.
Primary collaborators
Computational RNA Biology
Nicholas Luscombe - The Francis Crick Institute & UCL, London
Tomaž Curk - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Genialis - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Experimental RNA Biology
Rickie Patani - The Francis Crick Institute & UCL IoN, London
Sila Ultanir - The Francis Crick Institute, London
Louise Walport - The Francis Crick Institute, London
Gill Bates - UCL Institute of Neurology
Francesco Muntoni - UCL Institute of Neurology
Pietro Fratta - UCL Institute of Neurology
Andres Ramos - UCL, Department of Structural & Molecular Biology, London
Faraz Murdakheh - Barts Cancer Institute, London
Chris Shaw - KCL Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London
Giovanna Malucci - University of Cambridge
Kathryn S Lilley - University of Cambridge
Chris Smith - University of Cambridge
Tony Kouzarides - University of Cambridge
Michael Kiebler - Department of Cell Biology, LMU Munich
Marisol Soengas - CNIO, Madrid
Andrzej Dziembowski - Warsaw University, Poland
Dalibor Blazek - Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Our work is supported by the generous funding of the following agencies:
Primary funding:
1/2020 – 12/2024 Wellcome Trust; Senior Investigator Award, jointly with Nicholas Luscombe
10/2019 – 9/2024 European Research Council; ERC Advanced Grant
2014 – 2019 Wellcome Trust; Senior Investigator Award, jointly with Nicholas Luscombe
2014 – 2019 European Research Council; ERC Consolidator Grant
2008 – 2013 European Research Council; ERC Starting Grant
2006 - 2013 Medical Research Council (MRC); LMB core funding
Other funding:
2015 – 2017 European Commission; Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to Paulo Gameiro
2015 – 2017 European Commission; EMBO postdoctoral fellowship to Cristina Militti
2014 – 2016 European Commission; Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to Lorea Blazquez
2013 – 2015 European Commission; Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to Lilach Soreq
2012 – 2015 European Commission; FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) (16 groups)
2011 – 2013 Swiss National Foundation; Synergia grant supporting collaboration between 3 groups
2010 – 2013 Wellcome Trust/MRC; Strategic Award supporting collaboration between 16 groups
2008 – 2011 Human Frontiers Science Program, HFSP Program Grant supporting collaboration between 4 groups