Professor Viji Draviam

Profile

Research Biography:

Following a PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge (with Prof. Pines, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK, 1998-2001), and Post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School (with Prof. Sorger, Cambridge, USA; 2002-07), Viji started her own research group as a Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellow at the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge (2008-15).

Viji’s group moved to the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, QMUL in August 2015. Her research group uses a combination of high-resolution microscopy and molecular biology techniques to understand the molecular mechanisms that ensure chromosomal and genomic stability in normal and cancerous human cells.

Research in the group is funded by a variety of funding sources including the Royal Society, MRC and BBSRC.

Undergraduate Teaching

• Essential Skills for Biomedical Scientists (Tutorials) (BMD100)
• Molecules & Cells (SEFP032) - Module Organiser
• Essential Skills for Biomedical Scientists (BMD100)
• Biochemistry MSci Research Project (BIO790)
• Project Skills in the Life Sciences (BIO603)

Research

Research Interests:

See Viji Draviam Sastry’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

Supervision

Current PhD opportunities

• How do human cells ensure the accurate segregation of chromosomes?
• A molecular study of mechanisms that drive aneuploidy in cancers

PhD supervision

• Saanjbati Adhikari
• Christoforos Efstathiou
• Janeth Catalina Manjarrez González
• Xinhong Song
• Muntaqa Choudhury