PI:
Prof David E.K. Ferrier
(e-mail [email protected])
Biography:
2024 – present: Professor in Biology. The Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews.
2023 – present Director of the Scottish Oceans Institute
2017 – 2024: 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:
Dr Eleonora Gagliardi Lab manager
Technical specialist (Research)
(email: [email protected])
2024 – present: Technical specialist (Research), Scottish Oceans Institute,
University of St Andrews, UK.
2019-2024: PhD student (Thesis: The genetic basis of functional subpopulations in the Inferior Olive)
2015-2018: MSc in Molecular Biology, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy
2010-2014: BSc in General and Applied Biology, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy
Miss Anastasia Ellis PhD 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
Ms Kate Florence Smith PhD Student
(email: [email protected])
2023 – Present: BBSRC EASTBIO DTP PhD, University of St Andrews, UK
PhD title: Regulation of Chordate ParaHox Genes and Insights into Evolution
2021-2022: MPhil Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, UK
2016-2018: MSc Palaeobiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
2011-2015: BSc Evolutionary Biology, University of St Andrews, UK
Ms Xueqing Li Masters student
(email: [email protected])
2024-present: MSc(Res) Biology, University of St Andrews
Project title: Regulatory mechanisms of the ParaHox genes
2022: Gurdon summer scholar in the lab of Dr David Ferrier, The Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews
Project title: The role of canonical Wnt signalling in embryogenesis of the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis
2020-2023: BSc(Hons) Genetics, University College London
Project title: Exploring the telencephalon changes related to the optic vesicles/optic cup development in Astyanax mexicanus
Past group members:
- Mr Diego Dolgetta Garcia (undergraduate)
- Ms Nadia Cieminska (integrated Masters student)
- Ms Jasmine Walker (PhD student)
- Mr Carlos Montaner Campos (Masters student)
- 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)