PEOPLE
Iva Tchasovnikarova, PhD
Principal Investigator
PhD: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, UK
Post-doc: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
e-mail: it257[at]cam.ac.uk
Sri Lestari
Lab Manager
e-mail: sal65[at]cam.ac.uk
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Akhila Gungi, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Joined October 2023
PhD: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
Post-doc: Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
e-mail: ag2261[at]cam.ac.uk
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Sofia Beltrame
PhD student
BBSRC Doctoral Training Programme
Joined April 2025
e-mail: sb2719[at]cam.ac.uk
Joshua Danac
PhD student
CRUK Cambridge Cancer Centre PhD Programme
Joined October 2023
e-mail: jmcd3[at]cam.ac.uk
Rachael Matthews
PhD student
SBS-DTP Programme
Joined October 2021
e-mail: rem75[at]cam.ac.uk
Oliver Mowforth
PhD student
CRUK Cambridge Cancer Centre Clinical PhD Programme
Joined October 2025
e-mail: om283[at]cam.ac.uk
Emily Naden
PhD student
CRUK Cambridge Cancer Centre PhD Programme
Joined October 2025
e-mail: eln37[at]cam.ac.uk
Rachel Doran
Masters student
October 2024 - August 2025
Destination: The Francis Crick Institute
Emma Lee
Summer student
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives
June 2024 - August 2024
Destination: MIT
Ruyuan Yang
Part II student
January 2024 - March 2024
Destination: University of Oxford
Laura Farleigh Smith, PhD
Lab Manager
August 2021 - June 2023
Destination: Cardiff University
Chuyan Qin
PhD student
CSC Cambridge Scholar
October 2021 - September 2025
Lynn Froggett
Lab Administrator
July 2020 - January 2022
Sreyoshi Mitra, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher
September 2020 - February 2021
Destination: AstraZeneca
Interested in joining?
Funding for new PhD students is available through a variety of sources, and we are always eager to hear from highly motivated postdoctoral researchers keen to join the lab to exploit genetic tools to study chromatin regulation.