Current group members and associates are (October 2025)

Pat Heslop-Harrison

Trude Schwarzacher

Manosh Biswas (Honorary Fellow, Home: UM6P Morocco)

Paulina Tomaszewska (Honorary Fellow, Home: University of Wroclaw, Poland) @dr_PTom Twitter / X

Hess Ekkeh

Maitham Al-Jalali

Yangmeng Zhang

Ana Mattioli Laborne (Drosophila repetitive DNA)

From Jan 2026: Bashayer Almaqthali

External joint PhD students include:

Negar Kamini (joint)
Dounia Rashid (joint)

And MSc (Molecular Genetics; and Bioinformatics) and BSc Project Students

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Close collaborators include

Qing Liu, South China Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jenni Harikrishna, University of Malaya

Katja Richert-Pöggeler, Julius Kuhn Institute, Braunschweig, Germany

Zhiyong Xiong, University of Inner Mongolia, Hohot, China https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xXVBPWYAAAAJ&hl=en

Guto Kuhn, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Bello Horizonte, Brazil https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=bXbgTJsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Richard Gornall, Emeritus at University of Leicester Herbarium and Botanic Gardens

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Group members and associates at April 2024 were:

Pat Heslop-Harrison

Trude Schwarzacher

Manosh Biswas

Paulina Tomaszewska @dr_PTom Twitter / X

Khawla Alwadani

Lizo Masters

Hess Ekkeh

Maitham Al-Jalali

DongLi Cui

Close collaborators include

Qing Liu, South China Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jenni Harikrishna, University of Malaya

Katja Richert-Pöggeler, Julius Kuhn Institute, Braunschweig, Germany

Negar Karimi and Saeidi Hojatollah, University of Isfahan, Iran

Raquel Chaves, and Filomena Adega, UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal

Bat Vorontsova, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Mathieu Rouard, Alliance – Bioversity CIAT / Bioversity International, and French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB) – South Green Bioinformatics Platform, CIRAD, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France

Former group members, most with current collaborations, include, among many others,

Ziwei Wang, Henry Fok School of Biology and Agriculture, Shaoguan University, Shaoguan, China

Osamah Alisawi

Sarbast Mustafa

Rubar Hussein M. Salih

Niaz Ali

Jotyar Muhammed

Chetan Patokar

Adel Sepsi

Worku Negash Mhiret

Nauf Fakieh

Faisal Nouroz

Maria Assunta Biscotti

Karine Alix

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