Group members, associates and collaborators October 2026
Trude Schwarzacher
Manosh Biswas (Honorary Fellow, Home: Professor of Computational Biology, African Genome Center, UM6P. Morocco)
Paulina Tomaszewska (Honorary Fellow, Home: Associate Professor, University of Wroclaw, Poland) News of Grant to Paulina
Yangmeng Zhang
Bashaer Almaqthali
Jiayi Li
With Ramesh Patel, Technician and Professional Services
MSc (Molecular Genetics; and Bioinformatics) Students
BSc Project Students
External joint PhD students include:
Ana Mattioli Laborne (Drosophila repetitive DNA)
Negar Karimi (joint)
Dounia Rashid (joint)
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 Horozonte, Brazil
At October 2025, group members and associates were (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)
External joint PhD students include:
Negar Kamini (joint)
Dounia Rashid (joint)
And MSc (Molecular Genetics; and Bioinformatics) and BSc Project Students
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
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
Chee How Teo
