March 2026
Welcome to Huda who is starting her PhD in the lab!
February 2026
Our work done in collaboration with the groups of Dr Takayuki Nojima and Dr Yasukazu Daigaku on the role of the NELF complex in protecting against transcription/replication conflicts in cancer cells is out in EMBO Reports! Well done to Yagiz for his work on the paper! [ARTICLE]
January 2026
Welcome to Vanessa and Xingyou who are doing their iMSc and BSC internship, respectively, in the lab!
Our collaboration on characterising the role of PARG regulating the stability of TARG1 protein is out in Cell Reports! [ARTICLE]
October 2025
Thanks to the RNA Society and Lexogen for continuing to support our UK Midlands RNA Salon in 2025/2026!
September 2025
Welcome to Nifemi, Amy, and Kareena who are going to do their BSc internships in the lab!
Well done Abby for presenting her work at the Unviersity of Leicester PhD symposium!
Congratulations to Abby, Thomas, and Yagiz for presenting their posters, and Yagiz also for his flash talk, at the BCGB 2025 conference at the University of Birmingham!
Well done Yagiz for giving his first oral presentation at the Midlands RNA Salon at the University of Leicester!
August 2025
Welcome to Arooj who is going to do a six weeks graduate internship in the lab!
June 2025
Welcome to Rajwantee Sajeev who is doing her MSc internship on the SMN protein!
October 2024
Welcome to Bhumika and Devanshika who are doing their BSc internships!
Our work showing that two small molecule inhibitors, Isoginkgetin and Madrasin, are poor inhibitors of pre-mRNA splicing has been published in PLOS One! [ARTICLE]
July 2024
Our latest preprint on characterising how the activity of the splicing factor SF3B1 regulates via multiple pathways the recruitment of the key transcriptional complex P-TEFb is out! [PREPRINT]
April 2024
Our collaborative project with Prof. Ian Eperon (University of Leicester, UK) and Dr Sylvain Egloff (CBI, France) on determining the role of SMN/7SK complex in the regulation of gene expression has been funded by cureSMA! https://www.curesma.org/tellier-grant-announcement-2024/
February 2024
Our latest collaborative preprint with the research groups of Dr Takayuki Nojima, Prof. Ali Shilatifard, and Dr Yasu Daigaku on a novel function of NELF in transcription elongation and termination is out! [PREPRINT]
January 2024
Welcome to Eray and Yalin doing a MSc and a BSc internship, respectively!
Our collaboration on investigating the role in the nucleus of iRhom2 cleaved N-terminus has been published in Molecular Cell! [ARTICLE]
October 2023
Welcome to Yagiz and Thomas, the first two PhD students of the lab, and to Nulenie, a BSc student doing her third year project!
September 2023
Our collaboration on characterising the role of APOBEC3B in the resolution of R-loops and its consequences and transcription-associated mutagenesis is out in Nature Genetics! [ARTICLE]
June 2023
Our latest research on the role of RNA processing efficiency in the production of mature mRNA is now published in NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics! [ARTICLE]
Our collaboration with Prof. Alexandra Moreira (ICBAS, University of Porto) on the influence of colorectal cancer and pro-inflammatory polarization on poly(A) sites usage of primary human macrophages has been published in Frontiers in Immunology. [ARTICLE]
February 2023
Our collaboration with Prof. Xin Lu (Ludwig Institute, University of Oxford) on the functions of the p53-inhibitor iASPP in the regulation of immunological tolerance has been published in Cell Death & Disease! [ARTICLE]
January 2023
Our work on the effects of different splicing inhibitors on transcription has been submitted. [PREPRINT]