Lab news

Here you can read are some recent events and news from the lab

PhD position available!

Prof Joe Marsh and I have a PhD project as part of the 2025 Edinburgh Doctoral College Scholarship: “Integrating AI, Biophysical Modelling and Experimental Validation for Enhancer Variant Interpretation”. Closing date for applications is 25 April 2025. Please get in touch if you are interested! 🧬🧠


Preprint posted!

Kirsty Uttley*, Hannah J Jüllig*, Carlo De Angelis, Julia MT Auer, Ewa Ozga, Hemant Bengani, Hannah K Long. Neanderthal-derived variants shape craniofacial enhancer activity at a human disease locus (2024) – read it here on BioRxiv.


Research Technician Appreciation Week 2024
This week we celebrated the technicians who make our research easier every day! Hannah spoke about her experiences “Starting a research group with wide-ranging technical support from across the IGC”.


Science Insights Day 2024
This year the lab had an opportunity to host two secondary school students for a research taster session. You can read more about the day in our lab here.



DMM2024 Conference
Kasia Milto and Hannah Long presented a poster and attended the Pre-clinical Modelling of Human Genetic Disease and Therapy you can read about here.



Parliamentary Reception for Rare Disease Day 2024
We had the pleasure to discuss our research with charities, patients, and parliamentary members you can read more about it in the IGC Blog and here.