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I have supervised or co-supervised a number of excellent students during the course of their Doctoral and Masters studies.

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Shanti Sibuea (PhD, Directing A9 and A10 differentiation from pluripotent stem cells, 2022).
Enubi Kwak (PhD, Deriving human microglia and their interaction with neurons and astrocytes, 2022).
Alita Aguiar (PhD, Stem cell derived neuronal models: A tool for understanding Schizophrenia and for drug discovery, 2021).
Teresa Vandekolk (MSc, Characterisation and Functional Biology of Microglia derived in vitro from human embryonic stem cell).
Durgesh Tiwari (PhD, Investigating the effect of stem cell based therapy in murine models of Alzheimer’s disease, 2015).
Brad Watmuff (PhD, Functional development of mouse and human stem cell derived dopaminergic neurons, 2014).
Wendy Rong Zeng (PhD,Neural induction and multipotency in mouse embryonic stem cells, 2014).
Benjamin Finnin (PhD, Developing embryonic stem cells derived cardiomyocytes as tools for pharmacology and toxicology, 2014).
Cameron Hunt (PhD, Regulating development of mouse embryonic stem cells using small molecules, 2014).
Pankaj Gulati (PhD, Influence of the extracellular matrix on the in vitro differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells into neurons, 2014).
Rhys Bellinge (MSc, Generation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Reporter Lines to Identify Developmental Stages during Induction of Dopaminergic Neurons, 2013).
Brigham Hartley (PhD, Defining conditions required for the derivation of midbrain dopaminergic neurons from embryonic stem cells, 2013).
Angela Xie (PhD, A biological study of growth and development in the mouse prostate, 2013).
Colin Su (PhD, Investigating the development of midbrain dopaminergic neurons using mouse embryonic stem cell reporter lines, 2012).
Victoria Oliver (PhD, Regulation of intracellular calcium by androgens in stromal cells cultured from the human prostate, 2012).
Ebba Louise Lagerqvist (PhD, Functional characterisation of cardiomyocytes derived from mouse and human embryonic stem cells, 2011).
Christian Nefzger (PhD, Neural differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells with a focus on serotonergic neuron differentiation, 2009).
Simer Khaira (PhD, Characterisation of GABAergic neurons derived from mouse embryonic stem cells, 2009).
Anna Cook (PhD, Prostatic stroma cell function: modulation of contractility and viability by cGMP-dependent-protein kinases, 2004).
Ashley Preston (PhD, Alpha1-Adrenoceptor responses in human cultured prostatic stromal cells: modulation be adenosine and steroid sex hormones, 2003).

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