Postgraduate research

Genetics

Behavioural Genetics

Dr Ko-Fan Chen

  • Environmental factors and sleep regulation
  • Circadian behaviours across Drosophila species

Dr Roberto Feuda

  • Systems biology of neurogenesis
  • Genomics and computational biology
  • Evolutionary and developmental biology

Dr Robert Hammond

  • Genetic basis of variation in social organisation

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

Professor Eamonn Mallon

  • Ageing
  • Epigenetics
  • Social insects
  • Methylation

Professor Ezio Rosato

  • Molecular and functional investigations of complex behaviours in Drosophila, especially circadian rhythms
  • Circadian clock and development
  • Drosophila Cryptochrome and its role in physiology

Genetic Variation Mutation and Evolution

Dr Sandra Beleza

  • Studying the genetic architecture, genotype-phenotype correlations, and evolution of complex traits in recently admixed populations
  • Characterisation of the host-pathogen interactions underlying susceptibility to helicobacter pylori in recently admixed populations
  • Tracing the evolutionary relationships of human microbial communities in genetically diverse populations
  • Investigation into the demographic history, trait evolution and contemporary legacies of recent African migrations using a combination of ancient DNA and modern DNA analyses

Dr Roberto Feuda

  • Systems biology of neurogenesis
  • Genomics and computational biology
  • Evolutionary and developmental biology

Dr Fabian Freund

  • Population genetics (in various species)
  • Mathematical modelling of genetic diversity
  • Bioinformatic approaches for whole genome sequencing data
 

Dr Richard Gornall

  • Taxonomic and evolutionary studies in flowering plants, in particular the Saxifragaceae
  • Population genetics and molecular ecology of aquatic plants

Dr Robert Hammond

  • Population genetic effects of haplodiploidy
  • Genetic basis of haplodiploidy
  • Application of genetics to conservation

  • Causes and consequences of structural variation in respiratory disease
  • Structural variation in the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma

Professor Mark Jobling

  • Human population, evolutionary and forensic genetics
  • Animal forensics and conservation genetics

Dr Hollie Marshall

  • Ecological and evolutionary epigenetics
  • Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
  • Epigenetic consequences of pollution exposure

Dr Celia May

  • Human meiotic recombination processes and genome diversity
  • Genome dynamics of mitochondrial DNA and nuclear insertions
  • Forensic genetics solutions for combatting wildlife crime

Professor David Twell

  • Evolution of gene control networks, plant fertility, pollen, germ cells, biotechnology
  • Sexual reproduction in model and crop plants
  • Plant developmental biology

Medical Genetics

Dr Ko-Fan Chen

  • Drosophila models of human diseases
  • Sleep and health

Professor Flaviano Giorgini

  • Exploiting genetic modifiers of neurodegenerative disease to elucidate mechanisms of pathogenesis and identify potential therapeutic strategies

Professor Edward Hollox

  • Causes and consequences of structural variation in respiratory disease
  • Structural variation in the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma

Dr Tim Rattay

  • Personalising breast cancer treatment according to predicted toxicity
  • Radiogenomics and biomarkers
  • Breast surgery and reconstruction
  • Patients' views on breast cancer treatment and predictive testing

Professor Christopher Talbot

  • Genetic prediction of radiotherapy response in breast, lung and prostate cancers

Microbial Genetics and Pathogenicity

Professor Christopher Bayliss

  • Exploring how genetic variation and slippery DNA in bacterial pathogens contributes to virulence, host adaptation and resistance to phages

Dr Sandra Beleza

  • Characterisation of the host-microbe interactions underlying susceptibility to Helicobacter pylori in recently admixed populations
  • Tracing the evolutionary relationships of human microbial communities in genetically diverse populations

Professor Martha Clokie

  • Ecology and molecular biology of bacteriophages and their relationship with bacterial hosts

Dr Ed Galyov

  • Development of methods to study host-specific phageomes
  • Induction of prophages in vivo
  • Phage-based diagnostics
  • Phage-based vaccines
  • Discovery of phages infecting "exotic" bacteria

Dr Christian Jenul

  • Chemo-ecology of bacterial interactions
  • Bacterial natural product biosynthesis, modification and utilization 

Dr Spyridon Megremis

  • Bacteriophage Biology, Bacteriophage Therapy, Microbial and viral ecology (microbiome, virome), Respiratory Science (chronic lung disease)
  • My research focuses on the development of experimental systems (laboratory and computational) and research strategies to guide and support the implementation of phage therapy in chronic lung diseases

  • Genomic diversity of bacteriophages
  • Engineering of bacteriophages
  • Phage-host interactions

Professor Julie Morrissey

  • Antimicrobial resistance, host-pathogen interaction and environmental stress responses of respiratory bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis

Professor Marco Oggioni

  • Phase variable epigenetic control as switchboard in microbial physiology and pathogenicity

Dr Katrin Schilcher

  • Mining the bacterial lipoproteome to identify novel transcriptional regulators
  • Molecular mechanisms shaping polymicrobial interactions and antibiotic resistance
  • Bacterial communication and the switch between host species 

Plant Biodiversity Cell and Molecular Genetics

Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison

  • 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

Professor James Higgins

  • Crossover formation in model plants and crop species
  • Cross kingdom analysis of meiotic chromosome behaviour
  • Adaptation and evolution of meiosis in polyploids

Professor David Twell

  • Evolution of gene control networks, plant fertility, pollen, germ cells, biotechnology
  • Sexual reproduction in model and crop plants
  • Plant developmental biology

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