Participating Research Groups
| Supervisor | Department | Area of Research Interest |
| Dr Richard Adams | PDN | Visualising morphogenetic mechanisms |
| Dr Boris Adryan | CSBC & Genetics | Computational and genomics approaches to Drosophila transcriptional regulation |
| Dr Julie Ahringer | Gurdon Institute | Chromatin regulation and cell polarity in C. elegans development |
| Prof Michael Akam | Zoology | Evolution of developmental mechanisms in arthropods |
| Dr Clare Baker | PDN | Development and evolution of vertebrate neurogenic placodes |
| Dr Howard Baylis | Zoology | Mechanisms encoding specificity in developmental signalling pathways, using C. elegans as a model system |
| Prof Paul Brakefield | Zoology | Evo-devo in ladybird beetles and butterflies |
| Prof Andrea Brand | Gurdon Institute | Asymmetric cell division and axon guidance in the central nervous system |
| Prof Sarah Bray | PDN | Neural and epidermal development in Drosophila: from signalling to morphogenesis |
| Dr Nick Brown | Gurdon Institute | Molecular analysis of morphogenesis |
| Prof Graham Burton | PDN | Placental development and function |
| Dr Rafael Carazo-Salas | Gurdon Institute | The regulatory networks of cell morphogenesis |
| Prof Mark Carrington | Biochemistry | The molecular and cell biology of trypanosomes |
| Prof Bill Colledge | PDN | Transgenic mouse models of human disease: reproductive physiology, cystic fibrosis, and cardiac physiology |
| Prof Anne Ferguson-Smith | PDN | Genomic imprinting in mammalian development & human disease, and epigenetic control of genome function |
| Prof Abby Fowden | PDN | Comparative developmental physiology, with particular emphasis on intrauterine development |
| Dr Jenny Gallop | Gurdon Institute | Signalling pathways important for gastrulation movements |
| Prof David Glover | Genetics | Developmental regulation of cell division in model organisms and in cancer cells |
| Prof Sir John Gurdon | Gurdon Institute | Mechanisms of somatic cell nuclear reprogramming |
| Prof Bill Harris | PDN | Molecular embryogenesis of the visual system |
| Prof Christine Holt | PDN | Axon guidance in the developing brain |
| Dr Chris Jiggins | Zoology | Evo-devo of pattern formation in butterfly wings |
| Prof Roger Keynes | PDN | Development and repair of the nervous system, and vertebral segmental patterning |
| Dr Matthias Landgraf | Zoology | Morphogenesis and patterning of dendrites |
| Dr Rick Livesey | Gurdon Institute | Development of the mammalian forebrain |
| Prof Alfonso Martinez Arias | Genetics | Information processing by cells during development: – interactions between signalling pathways – generation and control of transcriptional noise in development – cell and tissue dynamics during morphogenesis |
| Dr Juan Mata | Biochemistry | Global role of RNA-binding proteins |
| Dr Irene Miguel-Aliaga | Zoology | Formation and function of visceral neurons in Drosophila |
| Dr Eric Miska | Gurdon Institute | Control of gene expression through non-coding RNA |
| Dr Cahir O'Kane | Genetics | Drosophila neuronal cell biology |
| Dr Isabel Palacios | Zoology | Function of motor proteins and the mechanism of mRNA localisation during development |
| Dr Eugenia Piddini | Gurdon Institute | Competitive cell interactions in normal physiology and cancer |
| Dr Emma Rawlins | Gurdon Institute | Cellular mechanisms of mammalian lung development |
| Dr John Rogers | PDN | Neural injury and regeneration |
| Dr Steve Russell | Genetics | Genomics approaches to transcriptional regulation in Drosophila |
| Dr Benedicte Sanson | PDN | Morphogenesis of the epithelium in Drosophila embryos |
| Dr Marisa Segal | Genetics | Cell cycle control of spindle morphogenesis in S. cerevisiae |
| Prof Daniel St Johnston | Gurdon Institute | mRNA localisation and the origin of polarity in Drosophila |
| Dr Nancy Standart | Biochemistry | Regulation of maternal mRNA in early development by translation and localisation |
| Prof Azim Surani | Gurdon Institute | Germ cells: a genetic programme regulating epigenetic modification |
| Dr Octavian Voiculescu | PDN | Early development and morphogenesis of the chick neural plate |
| Dr Rob White | PDN | Genomic approaches to transcriptional regulation and chromosome organisation in Drosophila |
| Dr Phil Zegerman | Gurdon Institute | Regulation of the timing of the early embryonic divisions of Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Dr Magda Zernicka-Goetz | Gurdon Institute | Cell fate, plasticity and pluripotency in the development of the early mouse embryo |