Lab Members
Eric Ward - Principle Investigator
Eric served most recently CEO of Cropsolution, Inc, a crop protection chemical discovery company. Prior to that, he was Co-President of Novartis (now Syngenta) Agribusiness Biotechnology Research. He received his PhD in plant biology from Washington University in St Louis in 1988, and his BSc in biology from Duke University in 1982.
Brande Wuff - TSL+ Research Manager
Brande graduated in plant biology from the University of East Anglia in 1997 and received his PhD from The Sainsbury Laboratory in 2002. He worked as a postdoc on plant pathogen interactions at the IBMCP (Spain), and most recently on plant epigenetics at the IBMP (France), before making the full circle back to The Sainsbury Lab in 2010.
Cintia Kawashima, Research Associate
Cintia graduated in Biological Sciences from the North Fluminense State University, Brazil, in 1997, and received her MSc in plant biotechnology from the same university in 2000. She was granted a Mombukagakusho scholarship and carried out her PhD on sulphur metabolism in Arabidopsis in the group of Kazuki Saito at Chiba University, Japan. Cintia moved to the UK in 2004 and worked, as an academic visitor, on polyamine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis (Institute of Food Research, Norwich), and as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Tamas Dalmay, working on the role of miRNAs in the regulation of sulphate assimilation in Arabidopsis (University of East Anglia, Norwich), prior to taking up her current position in TSL+.
Nicolas Champouret, Research Associate
Nico just graduated in Plant Breeding from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. During his PhD he identified and characterized resistance genes from wild Solanum species for durable resistance against late blight. Prior to that, he worked as a trainee in the group of Tomas Boller at the University of Basel and as a visiting scholar in the group of Sophien Kamoun at the Ohio State University. He received his MSc in fungal biotechnology from The University of Bordeaux II in 2002, and his BSc in cell biology and physiology from Burgundy University in 2000.
Costas Bouyioukos, Bioinformatics Specialist
Costas recently submitted his PhD thesis on Computational Systems Biology at the University of East Anglia. Prior to that, he was a visiting student at the University of Pennsylvania working on sequence analysis of microRNAs. He earned a diploma (MSc equivalent) in Agricultural Biotechnology and an MSc in Advanced Biotechnology from the Agricultural University of Athens.
Inma Hernandez-Pinzón, Research Assistant
Inma graduated in Biology from the University of Seville in 1991 and received her PhD in Biochemistry from the same University in 1997. Before joining TSL+, she worked on Plant Biology at the John Innes Centre, the University of East Anglia and the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomes (Spain).
