Awards and Prizes

  • British Society for Immunology Early Career Researcher’s Award - Finalist (2023)

  • University of Newcastle Engagement and Place Early Career Researcher’s Award - Finalist (2023)

  • Newcastle University Faculty Medical Sciences Doctoral Thesis Prize (2022)

  • Doctoral Researchers Award in Natural and Life Sciences - Honourable Mention (2022)

  • International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Research in Molecular Life Sciences - Honourable Mention (2021)

Fellowships and Grants

  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Leading Edge Fellowship (2023)

  • British Society for Immunology Career Enhancing Grant for ~£4,000 (2022).

  • Newcastle University Engagement & Place Fund for ~£300 (2022).

  • Barbour Foundation Postgraduate Research Studentship for ~£75,000 (2018-2021).

  • Harold and Olga Fox scholarship for £20,000 (2014-2018).

Publications

My research papers are listed below, and can also be found using my ORCID or Google Scholar profile.

* - authors contributed equally

  1. Laura Jardine*, Simone Webb*, Issac Goh, Mariana Quiroga Londoño, Gary Reynolds, Michael Mather, Bayanne Olabi, Emily Stephenson, Rachel A. Botting, Dave Horsfall, Justin Engelbert, Daniel Maunder, Nicole Mende, Caitlin Murnane, Emma Dann, Jim McGrath, Hamish King, Iwo Kucinski, Rachel Queen, Christopher D. Carey, Caroline Shrubsole, Elizabeth Poyner, Meghan Acres, Claire Jones, Thomas Ness, Rowen Coulthard, Natalina Elliott, Sorcha O’Byrne, Myriam L. R. Haltalli, John E. Lawrence, Steven Lisgo, Petra Balogh, Kerstin B. Meyer, Elena Prigmore, Kirsty Ambridge, Mika Sarkin Jain, Mirjana Efremova, Keir Pickard, Thomas Creasey, Jaume Bacardit, Deborah Henderson, Jonathan Coxhead, Andrew Filby, Rafiqul Hussain, David Dixon, David McDonald, Dorin-Mirel Popescu, Monika S. Kowalczyk, Bo Li, Orr Ashenberg, Marcin Tabaka, Danielle Dionne, Timothy L. Tickle, Michal Slyper, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Aviv Regev, Sam Behjati, Elisa Laurenti, Nicola K. Wilson, Anindita Roy, Berthold Göttgens, Irene Roberts, Sarah A. Teichmann & Muzlifah Haniffa. 2021. Blood and immune development in human fetal bone marrow and Down syndrome. Nature, 598 (7880), 327-‌331

  2. Simone Webb, Muzlifah Haniffa. 2023. Large‐scale single cell RNA sequencing atlases of human immune cells across lifespan: possibilities and challenges. European Journal of Immunology, 2023;0:2250222.

  3. Emily Stephenson*, Simone Webb*, and Muzlifah Haniffa. 2021. Multiomics uncovers developing immunological lineages in human. European Journal of Immunology, 51 (4) 764-772.

  4. Issac Goh*, Rachel A Botting*, Antony Rose**, Simone Webb**, Justin Engelbert, Yorick Gitton, Emily Stephenson, Mariana Quiroga Londoño, Michael Mather, Nicole Mende, Ivan Imaz-Rosshandler, Dave Horsfall, Daniela Basurto-Lozada, Nana-Jane Chipampe, Victoria Rook, Pavel Mazin, MS Vijayabaskar, Rebecca Hannah, Laure Gambardella, Kile Green, Stephane Ballereau, Megumi Inoue, Liz Tuck, Valentina Lorenzi, Kwasi Kwakwa, Clara Alsinet, Bayanne Olabi, Mohi Miah, Chloe Admane, Dorin-Mirel Popescu, Meghan Acres, David Dixon, Rowen Coulthard, Steven Lisgo, Deborah J Henderson, Emma Dann, Chenqu Suo, Sarah J Kinston, Jong-eun Park, Krzysztof Polanski, Stijn Van Dongen, Kerstin B Meyer, Marella de Bruijn, James Palis, Sam Behjati, Elisa Laurenti, Nicola K Wilson, Roser Vento-Tormo, Alain Chédotal, Omer Bayraktar, Irene Roberts, Laura Jardine, Berthold Göttgens, Sarah A Teichmann, Muzlifah Haniffa. 2023. Yolk sac cell atlas reveals multiorgan functions during human early development. Science, 18; 381 (6659), eadd7564.

  5. Chuan Xu, Martin Prete, Simone Webb, Laura Jardine, Benjamin Stewart, Regina Hoo, Peng He, Sarah A. Teichmann. 2023. Automatic cell type harmonization and integration across Human Cell Atlas datasets. Cell, 186, 5876-5891.

  6. Dorin-Mirel Popescu*, Rachel A. Botting*, Emily Stephenson*, Kile Green, Simone Webb, Laura Jardine, Emily F. Calderbank, Krzysztof Polanski, Issac Goh, Mirjana Efremova, Meghan Acres, Daniel Maunder, Peter Vegh, Yorick Gitton, Jong-Eun Park, Roser Vento-Tormo, Zhichao Miao, David Dixon, Rachel Rowell, David McDonald, James Fletcher, Elizabeth Poyner, Gary Reynolds, Michael Mather, Corina Moldovan, Lira Mamanova, Frankie Greig, Matthew D. Young, Kerstin B. Meyer, Steven Lisgo, Jaume Bacardit, Andrew Fuller, Ben Millar, Barbara Innes, Susan Lindsay, Michael J. T. Stubbington, Monika S. Kowalczyk, Bo Li, Orr Ashenberg, Marcin Tabaka, Danielle Dionne, Timothy L. Tickle, Michal Slyper, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Andrew Filby, Peter Carey, Alexandra Chloé Villani, Anindita Roy, Aviv Regev, Alain Chédotal, Irene Roberts, Berthold Göttgens, Sam Behjati, Elisa Laurenti, Sarah A. Teichmann & Muzlifah Haniffa. 2019. Decoding human fetal liver haematopoiesis. Nature, 574 (7778), 365-371.

  7. Eleonora Khabirova*, Laura Jardine*, Tim H. H. Coorens, Simone Webb, Taryn D. Treger, Justin Engelbert, Tarryn Porter, Elena Prigmore, Grace Collord, Alice Piapi, Sarah A. Teichmann, Sarah Inglott, Owen Williams, Olaf Heidenreich, Matthew D. Young, Karin Straathof, Simon Bomken, Jack Bartram, Muzlifah Haniffa & Sam Behjati. 2022. Single-cell transcriptomics reveals a distinct developmental state of KMT2A-rearranged infant B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Nature Medicine.

  8. Drake Winslow Williams, Teresa Greenwell-Wild, Laurie Brenchley, Nicolas Dutzan, Andrew Overmiller, Andrew Phillip Sawaya, Simone Webb, Daniel Martin, NIDCD/NIDCR Genomics and Computational Biology Core, George Hajishengallis, Kimon Divaris, Maria Morasso, Muzlifah Haniffa, and Niki Maria Moutsopoulos. 2021. Human oral mucosa cell atlas reveals a stromal-neutrophil axis regulating tissue immunity. Cell, Jun 9; S0092-8674(21)00630-9.

  9. John Lawrence*, Steven Woods*, Kenny Roberts*, Dinithi Sumanaweera, Petra Balogh, Alexander V Predeus, Peng He, Tong Li, Krzysztof Polanski, Elena Prigmore, Elizabeth Tuck, Lira Mamanova, Di Zhou, Simone Webb, Laura Jardine, Xiaoling He, Roger A Barker, Muzlifah Haniffa, Adrienne M Flanagan, Matthew D Young, Sam Behjati, Omer Bayraktar, Susan J Kimber, Sarah A Teichmann. 2023. Single cell transcriptomics reveals chondrocyte differentiation dynamics in vivo and in vitro. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.20.572425.

  10. Jong-Eun Park, Rachel A. Botting, Cecilia Domínguez Conde, Dorin-Mirel Popescu, Marieke Lavaert, Daniel J. Kunz, Issac Goh, Emily Stephenson, Roberta Ragazzini, Elizabeth Tuck, Anna Wilbrey-Clark, Kenny Roberts, Veronika R. Kedlian, John R. Ferdinand, Xiaoling He, Simone Webb, Daniel Maunder, Niels Vandamme, Krishnaa T. Mahbubani, Krzysztof Polanski, Lira Mamanova, Liam Bolt, David Crossland, Fabrizio de Rita, Andrew Fuller, Andrew Filby, Gary Reynolds, David Dixon, Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, Steven Lisgo, Deborah Henderson, Roser Vento-Tormo, Omer A. Bayraktar, Roger A. Barker, Kerstin B. Meyer, Yvan Saeys, Paola Bonfanti, Sam Behjati, Menna R. Clatworthy, Tom Taghon, Muzlifah Haniffa, Sarah A. Teichmann. 2020. A cell atlas of human thymic development defines T cell repertoire formation. Science, 367 (6480).

  11. Gary Reynolds*, Peter Vegh*, James Fletcher*, Elizabeth F. M. Poyner*, Emily Stephenson, Issac Goh, Rachel A. Botting, Ni Huang, Bayanne Olabi, Anna Dubois, David Dixon, Kile Green, Daniel Maunder, Justin Engelbert, Mirjana Efremova, Krzysztof Polanski, Laura Jardine, Claire Jones, Thomas Ness, Dave Horsfall, Jim McGrath, Christopher Carey, Dorin-Mirel Popescu, Simone Webb, Xiao-nong Wang, Ben Sayer, Jong-Eun Park, Victor A. Negri, Daria Belokhvostova, Magnus D. Lynch, David McDonald, Andrew Filby, Tzachi Hagai, Kerstin B. Meyer, Akhtar Husain, Jonathan Coxhead, Roser Vento-Tormo, Sam Behjati, Steven Lisgo, Alexandra-Chloé Villani, Jaume Bacardit, Philip H. Jones, Edel A. O’Toole, Graham S. Ogg, Neil Rajan, Nick J. Reynolds, Sarah A. Teichmann, Fiona M. Watt, Muzlifah Haniffa. 2021. Developmental cell programs are co-opted in inflammatory skin disease. Science, 371 (6527).

  12. Emily Stephenson, Gary Reynolds, Rachel A Botting, Fernando J Calero-Nieto, Michael D Morgan, Zewen Kelvin Tuong, Karsten Bach, Waradon Sungnak, Kaylee B Worlock, Masahiro Yoshida, Natsuhiko Kumasaka, Katarzyna Kania, Justin Engelbert, Bayanne Olabi, Jarmila Stremenova Spegarova, Nicola K Wilson, Nicole Mende, Laura Jardine, Louis CS Gardner, Issac Goh, Dave Horsfall, Jim McGrath, Simone Webb, Michael W Mather, Rik GH Lindeboom, Emma Dann, Ni Huang, Krzysztof Polanski, Elena Prigmore, Florian Gothe, Jonathan Scott, Rebecca P Payne, Kenneth F Baker, Aidan T Hanrath, Ina CD Schim van der Loeff, Andrew S Barr, Amada Sanchez-Gonzalez, Laura Bergamaschi, Federica Mescia, Josephine L Barnes, Eliz Kilich, Angus de Wilton, Anita Saigal, Aarash Saleh, Sam M Janes, Claire M Smith, Nusayhah Gopee, Caroline Wilson, Paul Coupland, Jonathan M Coxhead, Vladimir Yu Kiselev, Stijn van Dongen, Jaume Bacardit, Hamish W King, Anthony J Rostron, A John Simpson, Sophie Hambleton, Elisa Laurenti, Paul A Lyons, Kerstin B Meyer, Marko Z Nikolić, Christopher JA Duncan, Kenneth GC Smith, Sarah A Teichmann, Menna R Clatworthy, John C Marioni, Berthold Göttgens, Muzlifah Haniffa. 2021. Single-cell multi-omics analysis of the immune response in COVID-19. Nature Medicine, 27 (5) 904-916.

  13. Haniffa M, Taylor D, Linnarsson S, Aronow BJ, Bader GD, Barker RA, Camara PG, GrayCamp J, Chédotal A, Copp A, Etchevers HC, Giacobini P, Göttgens B, Guoji G, Hupalowska A, James KR, Kirby E, Kriegstein A, Lundeberg J, Marioni JC, Meyer KB, Niakan KK, Nilsson M, Olabi B, Pe'er D, Regev A, Rood J, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Satija R, Teichmann SA, Treutlein B, Vento-Tormo R, Webb S, Developmental Biological Network HCA. 2021. A Roadmap for the Human Developmental Cell Atlas. Nature, 597, 196–205.

Scientific talks & workshops

  1. Ohio State University – Department of Molecular Genetics – Invited postdoctoral departmental seminar entitled ‘A whole embryo atlas’. 1st November 2023.  

  2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia -  Leading Edge Fellowship Symposium – Invited fellow talk entitled ‘Charting human development’. 14th June 2023.

  3. Møller Institute – HDBI consortium meeting - Invited talk titled ‘A whole embryo atlas’. 31st Jan 2023.

  4. Sanger Institute – Cellular Genetics retreat – Invited talk titled ‘A whole embryo atlas’. 1st December 2022.

  5. Human Cell Atlas - Wellcome Strategic Support Science Award final Scientific Meeting - Careers and culture talk about my work within the consortium titled ‘PhD to postdoc progression’. 14th Sept 2022. *My talk is recorded and available on YouTube, please see ‘News and Media’ page for links.

  6. Human Cell Atlas Scientific Meeting – Wellcome Strategic Support Science Award Extension Management Meeting - Research in progress update for co-PIs, entitled ‘A whole embryo atlas – analysis update’. 24th June 2022.

  7. Sanger Institute – Cellular Genetics Seminar – Invited talk titled ‘A whole embryo atlas’. 23rd June 2022.

  8. Newcastle University - PhD Viva Seminar - Public talk and Q&A titled ‘Analysing single cell multiomic data to characterise human fetal bone marrow haematopoiesis’. 5th Nov 2021

  9. Newcastle University - NUBI Live! 2021 - Abstract accepted for talk titled ‘Analysing single cell multiomic data to characterise human fetal bone marrow haematopoiesis’. 3rd Nov 2021

  10. Newcastle University - North East Postgraduate Conference - Conference host, chair of ‘Immunology’ oral presentation session and member of conference organising committee. 22nd Nov 2019

  11. Wellcome Genome Campus - Single Cell Biology Conference - Abstract accepted for talk titled: ‘Using single- cell RNA sequencing to map lymphoid cell state and differentiation across human fetal haematopoietic organs’. 10th Nov 2020.

  12. University of Leeds - LeedsOmics: Research in Progress Seminar - Invited talk titled ‘Using single-cell RNA sequencing to characterise haematopoiesis in human fetal bone marrow’. 7th December 2020

  13. British Society Immunology - Virtual conference: Connecting immunology in the time of COVID-19 - Abstract accepted for poster titled ‘Intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of human fetal bone marrow haematopoiesis and perturbations in Down syndrome’. 1st Dec 2020. *poster not presented

  14. EMBL Heidelberg - 22nd EMBL PhD Symposium: The Roaring 20s: A New Decade for Life Sciences - Abstract accepted for poster titled ‘Intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of human fetal bone marrow haematopoiesis and perturbations in Down syndrome’. 27th Nov 2020. *poster not presented