Professor,
TIFR National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
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Senior Investigator, Lab for Sensory Development, Oct. 2012 - Sept. 2015
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe Japan.
Team Leader, Lab for Sensory Development, Oct. 2005 - Sept. 2012
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe Japan.
Junior Team Leader, Lab for Sensory Development, Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2005
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe Japan.
Postdoc, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - Sept. 2000 - Oct. 2002
Postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Gary Schoenwolf.
Postdoc, King’s College London, UK - Oct. 1996 - May 2000
Postdoc in the lab of Prof. Phillipa Francis-West
Education
National Institute for Medical Research, London UK. 1997
PhD. under the supervision of Prof. Jim Smith.
Thesis title “Cloning and Expression of Xom; a novel homeobox gene expressed during Xenopus gastrulation.”
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK. 1992
BSc (hons) in Biochemistry
Licensed Victuallers’ School, Slough, Berks. 1989
"I am interested in how developmental programmes lead to phenotypic changes.
There is nothing fun about me."