PI:
Dr David E.K. Ferrier
(e-mail [email protected])
Biography:
2017 – present: Reader in Biology, and Deputy Director of The Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, UK
2015 – 2017: Senior Lecturer in Biology. The Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, UK
2012 – 2015: Lecturer in Biology. The Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, UK
2007 – 2012: RCUK Fellow in Marine Biology. The Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, UK
2003-2007: Departmental Lecturer in Animal Diversity
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
1999-2003: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Prof. Peter Holland
University of Reading, UK
1997-1998: EC Marie Curie TMR Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Dr. Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez
University of Barcelona, Spain
1991-1995: PhD and
1995-1996: Wellcome Research Associate with Prof. Michael Akam
University of Cambridge, UK
Present group members:
Miss Anastasia EllisPhD student
(email: [email protected])
2020- present: BBSRC EASTBIO DTP PhD, University of St Andrews, UK
PhD title: ParaHox gene regulation in the chordates
2016-2020: BSc Biochemistry, University of St Andrews, UK
2018-2020: Laidlaw Scholar Undergraduate student
Miss Jasmine Walker PhD student
Email: [email protected]
2022 – Present PhD, University of St Andrews, UK
Project: Regulation of the ParaHox genes in the chordates
2021 – 2022 BSc (HONS) in Genetics, University of Otago, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Project: Identification of segmentation genes during embryonic development of the Black Field Cricket (Teleogryllus commodus)
2018 – 2021 BSc, University of Otago, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Mr Carlos María Montaner Campos MSc (Res) student
(e-mail: [email protected])
2022 – present: MSc (Res) Marine Biology, University of St Andrews
Project title: Ciona intestinalis as a model organism for gut regeneration
2019 – 2022: BSc (Hons) Biotechnology, University of Nottingham
Honours project: Understanding plant oxygen-sensing: the evolution of oxygen-sensing in land plants
2019: Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI). Understanding chirality at a molecular level
Past group members:
- Dr Nuria Torres-Aguila (postdoc)
- Dr Madeleine Aase-Remedios (PhD student)
- Miss Xueqing Li (undergraduate summer Gurdon scholarship)
- Miss Ava True (undergraduate)
- Miss Florence Trower (undergraduate)
- Miss Soo Bynn Lee (undergraduate)
- Dr Shunsuke Sogabe (postdoc)
- Dr Thomas Barton-Owen (Phd and postdoc)
- Dr Morag Clinton (PhD student)
- Miss Emily Brand (undergraduate)
- Miss Sophie Pedersen (undergraduate)
- Miss Rebekka Uhl (undergraduate)
- Mr Laurane Lesourd (visiting student)
- Miss Linjie Kong (undergraduate)
- Miss Rhanna Rankin (undergraduate)
- Miss Juliette Hamon (visiting student)
- Miss Madeleine Aase-Remedios (BBSRC-EASTBIO undergraduate intern)
- Dr Simon Dailey (PhD student)
- Dr Clara Coll Llado (PhD student)
- Dr Myles Garstang (PhD student and Research Fellow)
- Dr Réka Szabó (PhD student)
- Dr Olivia Mendivil Ramos (PhD student)
- Mr Peter Harrison (undergraduate)
- Miss Hannah Taylor (undergraduate)
- Mr Nathan Leonard (undergraduate)
- Mr Robbie Neilson (undergraduate)
- Miss Alice Dean (undergraduate)
- Mr Fraser Cameron (undergraduate)
- Mr Johnathan Demmer (visiting student)
- Dr Ana Sara Monteiro (postdoc)
- Dr Natalia Korchagina (postdoc)
- Dr Thomas Butts (PhD student)
- Dr Peter Osborne (PhD student)
- Dr Carmel McDougall (PhD student)
- Dr Jerome Hui (PhD student)
- Mr Suleyman Kuyumcu (visiting student)
- Mr Jolyon Troschianko (Masters student)
- Miss Mitashi Singh (Masters student)
- Miss Réka Szabo (undergraduate)
- Miss Sarah Miles (undergraduate)
- Mr Jonathan Tobin (undergraduate)
- Mr David Bruce (undergraduate)