David Lydall and the members of the lab use various molecular and genetic approaches to understand how genetic stability is maintained in the simple model organism budding yeast.

We are a mixture of students, technicians and post docs and currently comprise of about ten people. 

Our lab is in the Ageing Research Laboratories at Newcastle University, in the North East of England.

The picture shows Hadrian’s Wall, which crosses the country, from Newcastle to Carlisle.  It was built by the Romans and marked the Northern edge of  their empire.