People

Daniel Jeffares (he/him)
Lecturer | group leader
Google Scholar | ORCID 0000-0001-7320-0706
Teaching material

Evie Farnham (she/her)
Phd student, with Ville Friman | Ralstonia solanacearum phenomics
Funding: BBSRC White Rose DTP iCASE with support from FERA Science Ltd.

Liz Greensted (she/her)
Leishmania logistics
Funding: MRC (project MR/T016019/1) in collaboration with the PREV_PKDL project

Cooper Grace
Postdoc/data surgeon | Leishmania population genomics
ORCID 0000-0002-0931-3164
Funding: MRC UK:Brazil Joint Centre Partnership in Leishmaniasis.

João Cunha (he/him)
Google Scholar
Postdoc/data surgeon | Leishmania population genomics (PREV_PKDL project)
Funding: UK Medical Research Council (project MR/T016019/1)

Martina Stoycheva (she/her)
Phd student, with Ville Friman | Ralstonia solanacearum genomics
Funding: NERC iCASE with support from FERA Science Ltd. 

Maud de Kinderen (she/her)
Phd student, with Katherine Denby | Amaranth genomics
Funding: BBSRC White Rose DTP, iCASE with LettUs Grow
ORCID: 0000-0002-9439-7314

Edd Page (he/him)
Phd student, with Kanchon Dasmahapatra | Genetic basis of convergent evolution in tropical butterflies
Funding: NERC ACCE DTP

Leishmania Technicians
Finnley Osuna (with Margaret Mbuchi, KEMRI, Kenya)
Ahmed Jibreel (with Ahmed Musa, IEND, Sudan)
Gloria Akello (with Joseph Olobo, Makerere Uni., Uganda)
David Nono (with Joseph Olobo, Makerere University, Uganda)
Arega Yeshanew (with Asrat Hailu, University of Gondar, Ethiopia)
Jemal Yasin (with Asrat Hailu, University of Gondar, Ethiopia)


Undergraduates doing Leishmania work
Simon Harnqvist
Adela Barrett
Perrick Roger

Collaborators

UK/Europe
Jeremy Mottram (University of York)
Paul Kaye (York)
Pegine Walrad (York)
Ville Friman (York)
Seth Davis (York)
Benjamin Lichman (York)
Kanchon Dasmahapatra (York)
Katherine Denby (York)
Laurence Lachaud, Patrick Bastien (University of Montpellier)
George Constable (York)

South America
Carlos HN Costa (Natan Portella Tropical Diseases Institute, Teresina Brazil)
Elisa Cupolillo (Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro Brazil)
Hiro Goto (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Lucas Carvalho (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)

Africa
Asrat Hailu (University of Gondar, Ethiopia)
Margaret Mbuchi, Jane Mbui (Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya)
Joseph Olobo (Makerere University, Uganda)
Ahmed Musa (Institute of Endemic Diseases, Sudan)

Alumni
Sarah Lock (PhD)
Hannah Kilford (Masters)
Mayara Lima (CAPES-funded Research fellow, 2020-21, Universidade Federal de Maranhão)
Talita Y. Takahashi (Masters intern, Universidade Federal de São Carlos)
Sarah Forrester (Wellcome-funded Postdoc)
Jordan Tzvetkov (Masters)
Talita Takahashi (Masters)
Aleksander Aare (Masters)
Matt Brune (Masters)