A warm welcome to Simonas and Mani, our two newest lab members!

Manikandan Parthasarathy did his PhD at the Indian Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Mahavir Singh, where he investigated the structure and assembly of type III TA systems from E. coli. He joined EMBL EIPOD-LinC Fellowship Programme to study pre-mRNA splicing using biophysical and structural methods in collaboration with the Olivier Duss group at EMBL Heidelberg.

Simonas Melaika is an undergraduate student at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He will stay with us over the summer to investigate enzymes involved in RNA processing.