Principal Investigator
Dr Tim Hearn is an early career researcher who is an expert in both the genetics and physiology of circadian clocks. Tim Hearn is a comparative biologist, having studied circadian mechanism in humans, zebrafish and plants. He is recognised as an international authority on regulation of circadian clocks (Hearn and Webb 2020).
Tim is an award nominated educator in the Department of Medical Genetics, taking a leading role in the Cambridge Genomic Medicine Programme (CGMP). His teaching involves bioinformatics and statistics, and organises the 100,000 genomes training for the department.
Email me: tjh70@cam.ac.uk
Group Members
Current group members are engaged in a range of projects covering the involvement of biological timing systems in various aspects of human health and disease.
Current PhD students
- Millie Ampiah
- Bethan Lloyd-Owen
- Jose Maarugan
- Ben Travis (ARU)
- Minakshi Singh (ARU)
Current graduate students
- Harry Gee
- Tanya Kennedy
- Jingbo Wang
- Amelie Siew
Current visiting scientists
- Aris Saoulidis (East GMSA)
- Ghada Afifi (Cambridge GLH)
Former graduate students
- Basimah Malik (MPhil and former Genetics Society summer student)
- Lydia Seed (MPhil)
- Eszter Szepesvary (MSt)
- Marina Lirintzi (MPhil)
Former Summer students
- Georgia Yiasoumi
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