Sophie is a PhD student in the Cardoso-Moreira lab studying evolutionary novelty in the context of organ evolution. She uses a family of fish where the placenta has evolved independently multiple times and compares cell types across placental and non-placental species to understand how the fish placenta was build from scratch. 

Previously, Sophie completed her MPhil and BA at the University of Cambridge including research projects studying developmental processes in a wide range of species from Amphioxus to humans. 

Publications from previous work:

Sophie Kraunsoe, Takuya Azami, Yihan Pei, Graziano Martello, Kenneth Jones, Thorsten Boroviak, Jennifer Nichols; Requirement for STAT3 and its target, TFCP2L1, in self-renewal of naïve pluripotent stem cells in vivo and in vitro. Biol Open 1 January 2023; 12 (1): bio059650. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.059650

Luke Simpson, Andrew Strange, Doris Klisch, Sophie Kraunsoe, Takuya Azami, Daniel Goszczynski, Triet Le Minh, Benjamin Planells, Nadine Holmes, Fei Sang, Sonal Henson, Matthew Loose, Jennifer Nichols & Ramiro Alberio; A single-cell atlas of pig gastrulation as a resource for comparative embryology. Nat Commun 15, 5210 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49407-6

Qualifications and history

2020
University of Cambridge, UK
BA Natural Sciences
2021
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
MPhil Developmental Biology (Jenny Nichols' lab)
2022
University of Nottingham
Research Assistant (Ramiro Alberio's lab)
2022
Francis Crick Institute
PhD Student