Atlasi lab
for stem cell & cancer epigenetics
News
September 2026- Congratulations and a warm farewell to our BSc and MSc students who have successfully completed their internships, projects, and summer research placements with us.
Youssef MSc in Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics
Diksha MSc in Cancer Medicine
Maryam: Research internship
Xiyue: China-QUB summer studentship
Alice: Erasmus+ summer studentship
July 2026:
Congratulations to Dr. Ralph on his PhD graduations
October 2025 - A warm welcome to our visiting researcher, Maryam Hosseini Moghadam, who will investigate the epigenetic plasticity in DLBCL.
September 2025 - Congratulations to Ralph Samarista for successfully passing his PhD Viva.
September 2025 - We are very grateful for receiving an MRC project grant to investigate the epigenetic-metabolic crosstalk downstream of Betaine metabolism in stem cells and disease models.
September 2025 - We have an exciting, fully funded PhD studentship (UK and ROI) to investigate mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in drug resistant B-cell lymphoma. We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
August 2025 - A warm welcome to our new postdoc, Dr. Laure de Pontual, who will investigate the epigenetic-metabolic crosstalk in mESCs.
July 2025 - We are very grateful for receiving a BBSRC project grant to investigate mechanisms of chromatin regulation downstream of WNT-signalling in stem cells.
April 2025 - We are excited to organise the 1st Genetics Society conference in Northern Ireland: Epigenetics-2025: from mechanisms to disease.
February 2025 - Congratulations to Axelle on her new collaborative paper describing the role of USP7-PRC1.1 in controlling neural differentiation; published in Genes and Development genesdev.cshlp.org/content/early/2025/02/07/gad.352272.124.
February 2025 - We are very grateful for receiving the Leverhulme Trust Research Grant to investigate the role of metabolic-epigenetic crosstalk in stem cells.
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November 2024 - A warm welcome to our new BSc student, Erin Sethuraman, who will investigate the roles of TEAD TFs in CRC.
November 2024 - A warm welcome to our new MSc student, Sarah Brown, who will investigate the role of USP7 in NHL.
September 2024 - Congratulations to Fatemeh for winning the Poster Presentation Prize at the Chromatin and Transcription UK conference, organized by the Biochemical Society!
June 2024 - A warm welcome to our summer student, Dalal, who joined us from MBRU UAE for a research visit.
April 2024 - Congratulations to Axelle for her review paper published in Stem Cells
https://academic.oup.com/stmcls/advance-article/doi/10.1093/stmcls/sxae027/7643395.
April 2024 - Congratulations to Ralph for receiving a Genetics Society travel grant to
attend the ISSCR 2024 meeting in Hamburg.
February 2024 - Axelle presented a poster at the 60th IACR annual conference in Dublin.
February 2024 - We are very grateful for receiving the Royal Society Research Grant to investigate the 3D genome reorganization in drug-resistant cancer cells.
February 2024 - The lab participated in the PGJCCR Open Day as part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival, showcasing our research in stem cells and cancer.
January 2024 - Axelle obtained a bursary for attending the 60th annual IACR conference in Dublin next February.
November 2023 - Congratulations to Yaser on being elected as a committee member of the Genetic Society UK.
November 2023 - A warm welcome to our new MSc student, Talal Huda, who will investigate the role of USP7 in NHL.
October 2023 - Congratulations to Yaser for receiving two EMBO travel grants to attend the EMBO Developmental Metabolism meeting in Heidelberg and the EMBO Enhanceropathies meeting in Marseille.
October 2023 - A warm welcome to our new PhD student, Sachin Luharia, who will investigate the role of 3D genome organization in cancer.
October 2023 - Fatemeh presented her Spic paper as a poster at the Transcription and Chromatin meeting organized by the UK Biochemical Society.
September 2023 - Congratulations to Fatemeh for receiving a travel grant from the Genetic Society UK to attend the ISSCR meeting in Vienna.
August 2023 - Fatemeh's paper on role of SpiC in ground state pluripotency is published in Science Advances
July 2023 - Fatemeh presented a poster on her research at The Milner Therapeutics Symposium held in Cambridge.
June 2023 - Axelle obtained the 2nd prize for the presentation of her research project at the yearly PGJCCR Symposium.
June 2023 - Ralph was awarded the Genetics Society Conference Grant and present his research at the 2023 Paris-Munich Epigenetics Workshop & Symposium held at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich.
May 2023 – Yaser attended the Stem Cell Niche 2023 (Novo Nordisk Science Cluster) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
May 2023 – Axelle presented a poster at the All-Ireland Chromatin Consortium (IACC) conference in Dublin, Ireland.
February 2023 – Ralph and Axelle presented their posters at the 2023 Irish Association for Cancer Research (IACR) annual conference in Athlone, Ireland. Their visit was supported by a travel scholarship from the QUB School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science.
February 2023 - The lab volunteered for the PGJCCR Open Days during the NI Science Festival.
November 2022 – The lab recently published a paper in Science Advances describing a new epigenetic axis composed of USP7-PRC1.6-H2AK119Ub.
October 2022 – Yaser was awarded the MRC New Investigator Research Grant to investigate the epigenetic USP7-PRC1.6 axis in stem cells and cancer.
June 2022 – Axelle received a travel scholarship to visit the Verrijzer lab at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam to set up organoid culture in the lab.
March 2022 – Axelle was awarded with a DfE-funded PhD position at the PGJCCR.
