Genetics
Behavioural Genetics
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Environmental factors and sleep regulation
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Circadian behaviours across Drosophila species
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Systems biology of neurogenesis
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Genomics and computational biology
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Evolutionary and developmental biology
Professor Charalambos Kyriacou
- Molecular basis of circadian, tidal, and seasonal rhythms in arthropods
- Molecular genetics of aggression in drosophila
- Molecular analysis of electromagnetic sensitivity in insects and mammals
- Epigenetics
- Social insects
- Methylation
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Molecular and functional investigations of complex behaviours in Drosophila, especially circadian rhythms
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Circadian clock and development
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Drosophila Cryptochrome and its role in physiology
Genetic Variation Mutation and Evolution
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Studying the genetic architecture, genotype-phenotype correlations, and evolution of complex traits in recently admixed populations
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Characterisation of the host-pathogen interactions underlying susceptibility to helicobacter pylori in recently admixed populations
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Tracing the evolutionary relationships of human microbial communities in genetically diverse populations
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Investigation into the demographic history, trait evolution and contemporary legacies of recent African migrations using a combination of ancient DNA and modern DNA analyses
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Systems biology of neurogenesis
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Genomics and computational biology
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Evolutionary and developmental biology
- Taxonomic and evolutionary studies in flowering plants, in particular the Saxifragaceae
- Population genetics and molecular ecology of aquatic plants
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Causes and consequences of structural variation in respiratory disease
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Structural variation in the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma
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Human population, evolutionary and forensic genetics
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Animal forensics and conservation genetics
- Genetic genealogy
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Human meiotic recombination processes and genome diversity
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Genome dynamics of mitochondrial DNA and nuclear insertions
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Forensic genetics solutions for combatting wildlife crime
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Evolution of gene control networks, plant fertility, pollen, germ cells, biotechnology
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Sexual reproduction in model and crop plants
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Plant developmental biology
Medical Genetics
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Drosophila models of human diseases
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Sleep and health
- Genetic risks of ionizing radiation and chemical mutagens: germline mutation induction and radiation-induced genomic instability in irradiated human families and laboratory mice
- Exploiting genetic modifiers of neurodegenerative disease to elucidate mechanisms of pathogenesis and identify potential therapeutic strategies
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Causes and consequences of structural variation in respiratory disease
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Structural variation in the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma
- Genetic prediction of radiotherapy response in breast, lung and prostate cancers
Microbial Genetics and Pathogenicity
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Exploring how genetic variation and slippery DNA in bacterial pathogens contributes to virulence, host adaptation and resistance to phages
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Characterisation of the host-microbe interactions underlying susceptibility to Helicobacter pylori in recently admixed populations
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Tracing the evolutionary relationships of human microbial communities in genetically diverse populations
- Ecology and molecular biology of bacteriophages and their relationship with bacterial hosts
Dr Ed Galyov
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Development of methods to study host-specific phageomes
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Induction of prophages in vivo
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Phage-based diagnostics
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Phage-based vaccines
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Discovery of phages infecting "exotic" bacteria
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Genomic diversity of bacteriophages
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Engineering of bacteriophages
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Phage-host interactions
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Antimicrobial resistance, host-pathogen interaction and environmental stress responses of respiratory bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis
- Phase variable epigenetic control as switchboard in microbial physiology and pathogenicity
Plant Biodiversity
- Molecular cytogentics, genomics, chromatin
- Biodiversity and its exploitation
- Bioinformatics, retrotransposons, repetitive DNA structure, evolution and function, cereals, bovids, model plant and animal species, tropical crops
- Crossover formation in model plants and crop species
- Cross kingdom analysis of meiotic chromosome behaviour
- Adaptation and evolution of meiosis in polyploids
- Genetic analysis of telomeres in yeast
- Genetics of yeast hybrids
- Exploiting natural genetic variation for yeast strain development
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Evolution of gene control networks, plant fertility, pollen, germ cells, biotechnology
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Sexual reproduction in model and crop plants
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Plant developmental biology
Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
- Molecular cytogentics, genomics, chromatin
- Biodiversity and its exploitation
- Bioinformatics, retrotransposons, repetitive DNA structure, evolution and function, cereals, bovids, model plant and animal species, tropical crops
- Crossover formation in model plants and crop species
- Cross kingdom analysis of meiotic chromosome behaviour
- Adaptation and evolution of meiosis in polyploids
- Genetic analysis of telomeres in yeast
- Genetics of yeast hybrids
- Exploiting natural genetic variation for yeast strain development
- Plant developmental biology
- Sexual reproduction in model and crop plants
- Evolution of gene control networks, plant fertility, pollen, germ cells, biotechnology