People

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)