March 2025 – EHARecon25, Malaga. It was a great meeting. 1 talk, 1 poster from the lab.
February 2025 – Our Lab social activity of the month: painting.
January 2025 – Our Lab social activity of the month: we tried bowling.
December 2024 – Our Lab Christmas dinner and cocktail making activity:)
October 2024 – We celebrated Aisha and Naoki’s joining to our lab with raki 🙂
September 2024 – Aisha Moussa joined the lab as a PhD student. We said good bye to Blessing’s , replacement student, celebrated Aisha’s completing her first week of PhD and enjoyed Dima’s Georgian wine and learned how to say cheers in Georgian!
August 2024 – We had Deniz Lab retreat in Bath! We had a lot of fun and talked about current and future projects, the improvements in the lab and celebrated Özgen’s promotion!
April 2024 – Representatives of our lab at ICTE2024, St Malo!
December 2023 – Our Christmas dinner together with Nguyen Rio-Machin groups!
December 2023 – Our Christmas dinner
October 2023 – Halloween and our first group photo.
September 2023 – Our first postdoc, Francesco, joins our lab. Welcome Francesco!!
June 2023 – We had a very fruitful retreat with Deniz and Branco lab members in Brighton.
April 2023 – Elena joins the lab as a Master’s student from Cancer Genomics and Data Science Program.
February 2023 – I have two marathons challenge in Barcelona and London to raise funds for childhood cancer research.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ozgendeniz
November 2022 – Our lab moved to the Barts Cancer Institute.
August 2022 – Extremely happy to receive a CRUK Career Development Fellowship. We will receive six years of support to study the oncogenic roles of transposons in acute myeloid leukaemia.
August 2022 – We said goodbye to Ana and Nicola.
June 2022 – Deniz lab was awarded our first recruitment grant from the European Hematology Association. I received this prestigious award in person in Vienna.
May 2022 – Ana from the University of Santiago de Compostela starts in the lab as a visiting PhD student.
April 2022 – I ran my first half marathon at Kew Gardens to raise funds for cancer research.
https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/ozgens-giving-page-1
March 2022 – Nicola starts her MSc project in the lab
December 2021 – Asja and Ziqing join the lab as MRes students.
July 2021 – Our proposal on the roles of transposons in chromatin organisation was selected for EASI-Genomics Transnational and Extraordinary Access Calls.
March 2021 – First MSc student Kamela joins the lab.
January 2021– Deniz lab officially launches at Imperial with the support of Imperial College London and AstraZeneca.
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