PGD team
Joy Delhanty, Sioban SenGupta, Joyce Harper, Seema Dhanjal, Thalia Mamas, Leoni Xanthopoulou, Harita Ghevaria, Pinar Tulay, Roy Naja
SEEMA DHANJAL (BSc, MSc, MPhil) Seema obtained a Master’s degree from Brunel University in Medical Genetics and Immunology in 1994. Between 1994 and 1997 Seema worked in Glasgow as a Research Assistant in the Prenatal Diagnosis lab in the Duncan Guthrie Institute of Medical Genetics and from 1997 to 2000 in Birmingham Women’s Hospital in the Molecular Genetics lab. She completed her MPhil from Warwick University in 2003. She joined the group later that year and works full time in PGD for monogenic disorders, developing new protocols and carrying out clinical cases. Her research is mainly on the follow-up of PGD cases investigating the efficacy of new protocols.
THALIA MAMAS (BSc, MSc, / PhD student). After completing the MSc in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine at the Institute for Women’s Health, Thalia Mamas joined the UCL Centre for PGD in November 2005, as a part-time PhD student and a part-time scientist performing clinical PGD cases. Thalia’s main research areas are the investigation of aneuploidy in embryos from fertile couples, the detection of aneuploidy by array comparative genomic hybridisation and gene expression in human preimplantation embryos. For her clinical PGD work, Thalia is focusing on PGD for inherited cancer predisposition, mainly Neurofibromatosis type.
LEONI XANTHOPOULOU (BSc, MSc, part time PhD student). Leoni graduated from her BSc in Biology at UCL in 2003, where she also completed her MSc in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine in 2005. Leoni joined the UCL Centre for PGD in January 2006 as a part time PhD student and part time clinical scientist performing clinical PGD and PGS cases. For her clinical work she is involved in working up protocols for carriers of structural chromosomal abnormalities, whereas her PhD research focuses on the molecular cytogenetics of human preimplantation embryos. Her main research interests include the origin and mechanisms of formation of binucleate cells and the investigation of microsatellite instability in human preimplantation embryos as well as the role of mutations in PGS patients with unexplained infertility.
HARITA GHEVARIA (BSc, MSc, part time PhD student). Harita Ghevaria is a 3rd year part –time PhD student at the IfWH and works at the UCL Centre for PG&D lab. She has completed her Master’s degree in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine at UCL. Her research involves investigating the origin of aneuploidy, mainly chromosomal anomalies from human embryos and gametes from infertile couples undergoing pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Her other part time work involves clinical diagnosis in the field of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis using techniques such as Fluorescent In Situ Hybridisation, Array-CGH and PCR.
PINAR TULAY (BSc, MSc). Pinar Tulay graduated from University of Missouri in 2006 with double degree in Chemistry and Mathematics (BSc). Shecompleted her MRes in Biomedical Science Research at Imperial College in 2008 and MSc in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine at UCL in 2009. Pinar joined UCL Centre for PGD in September 2009 as a full time PhD student and a scientist performing PGD. For her PhD, she is focusing on investigating DNA repair, gene expression and chromosomal abnormalities in human oocytes and embryos. For her clinical PGD work, she has been involved in developing and optimising PGD protocols for inherited cancer predisposition and recently PGD for translocations.
ROY NAJA Roy obtained his BSc in Biology in 2000 and then his MS in Molecular Biology/Genomics in 2003, both from the American University of Beirut. He them moved to McGill University in Montreal to study for his PhD titled The role of Vitamin D metabolic enzymes in bone development and repair which he took in the Department of Human Genetics and obtained in 2009. He joined the UCL Centre for PGD in Oct 2010 as a Training/Associate Researcher and has been developmening PGD for the Hemoglobinopathies and HLA by PCR. His future research work includes PGD for Hemoglobinopathies and HLA by SNP arrays.
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