Tamsin was a graduate student in the lab from 2011-2015 in the OEB graduate program. Her research included annotation of arthropod genomes, investigation of germ line gene function in the milkweed bug, and discovery and analysis of oskar orthologues across insect phylogeny.

After leaving the lab, she went on to be  a curator for FlyBase , and is current an HGNC Gene Nomenclature Advisor at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).