I’m a Cell Biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. I am fascinated by the process by which one cell becomes two. I research how this process led to the origins of life on Earth, how it can go wrong to cause diseases like cancer, and how we might be able to solve them.

My lab is interested in the generation of biological form or “morphogenesis”. We study events at the cellular scale because the cell is the unit of life. Much of the lab’s work focuses on cell division – the process by which becomes two.