Linda van Bijsterveldt
Linda van Bijsterveldt is a Principal Investigator at the Generative Biology Institute (EIT) in Oxford.
Linda earned a BSc degree from Leiden University and then MSc by Research and DPhil degrees in Oncology from the University of Oxford. In January 2022, she joined Jason Chin’s group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB) in Cambridge as a postdoctoral scientist, where she worked on SynHG. This project aims to develop the tools needed to synthesise human genomes.
Full list of publications here.
Interested in joining the lab?
We are actively looking for highly motivated, talented, and collegial team members.
Please apply through the link and contact us directly via email. It is particularly helpful to include in a C.V. and an explanation of what draws your interest to our team.
Current Members
Yanis Bryois
DPhil Student (GenBio DTP)
Yanis did his BSc in Biology at the University of Geneva, with an exchange year at the University of Manchester where he focused on the molecular basis of diseases. He also spent time at the Centriole Architecture lab, improving expansion microscopy, and at the Roux Lab, working on segmentation of images from epithelial tissues. From there he moved to Basel for his MSc in Biotechnology at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (ETH Zurich). He interned at Roche pRED, where he developed an siRNA sequencing technology for multiplexed in vivo assays. His thesis, in Prof. Sai Reddy's Laboratory for Systems and Synthetic Immunology, focused on allogeneic cell therapies against cancer. He worked with primary cells, designed de novo binders, and developed in silico tools for de-immunisation of proteins.
Yanis is passionate about developing tools and technologies to improve human health, and is always happy to chat about it.
Lorenzo Antonelli
Research Assistant
Lorenzo is a physician-scientist trained at Sapienza University of Rome, where he completed an MSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology and an MD through a double-degree research track. He carried out his thesis work at Harvard Medical School in Ben Kleinstiver's lab, building a platform to streamline the generation of bespoke base editors for genetic diseases. He is interested in all things genome engineering and in seeing that work reach the clinic.
Alex Todd
Research Assistant
Alex holds a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Warwick and an MRes in Synthetic Biology from UCL, where he worked on improving the efficiency of large-scale CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing using a novel extremophile DNA repair protein.
