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  Samanta Mariani’s lab From left to right - Hollie Vaughan (PhD student) - Malgorzata Rumowksa (visiting student) - Samanta Mariani - Hena Modha (Master student) - Eva Doyle (PhD student) Each month, Simply Blood spotlights a lab contributing to the fields of hematology, immunology, stem cell research, cell and gene therapies, and more. Get to know groups doing cutting edge research from around the world! This month, we are featuring the Mariani Lab which is based out of the Centre for Inflammation Research, The University of Edinburgh. How long have you had your lab and how many members make up your lab?  Three years now. Brief but very intense. Currently, we have two PhD students, one Master student and one visiting student. What is the major research theme of your lab? Our major interest is to understand how embryonic macrophages interact with hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells at steady-state and in mouse models of infant leukemia, where the leukemic cells first appear in