Dr Adele Marston

Adele Marston studies the segregation of chromosomes during cell division. Errors in chromosome segregation generate daughter cells with the wrong number of chromosomes and this is associated with cancer, birth defects and infertility. Adele is employing a combination of directed genetics, cell biology and biochemistry together with genomic and proteomic approaches using yeast as a model system to understand the conserved molecular mechanisms in chromosome segregation. Adele received her D. Phil. from the University of Oxford and did her postdoctoral work at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005 she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship and became a group leader in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh. She received her SULSA award in 2009 and was accepted into the EMBO Young Investigator Programme in 2010. In 2011, Adele was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust.

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