Two of our current group members have secured lectureships and will be leaving us in the Autumn.
Dr Jack Hardwick, who has been part of the Balasubramanian group for 5 years, will be joining the School of Biochemistry at the University of Bristol in December 2024. Jack joined us as a postdoc in 2019, having completed his doctorate with Professor Tom Brown at the University of Oxford. During his time with us, Jack has been leading a collaboration with the biotech company biomodal, co-inventing a sequencing approach that has revealed a new layer of epigenetic information in mammalian DNA. In 2022, Jack was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship to support this work. In his group at Bristol, Jack plans to develop new omics methods to elucidate fundamental epigenetic mechanisms in neurons.
Dr Sean Flynn will join the University of Exeter in November 2024 as a lecturer in Data Science and Genomics. Following his PhD with Mario de Bono at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Sean joined the group in 2020 to work on the role of four-stranded DNA in enhancer elements. His work has been supported by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and Wolfson College Junior Research Fellowship. His group in Exeter will study neurodevelopment, using genetic and genomic approaches to discover mechanisms of long-range gene regulation.
We will miss them both but wish them every success in building their new teams in the South West.
