| Alisdair Anthony |
Alisdair, on completing his PhD, now works with the Government of Scotland, in the statistics branch of the Chief Scientists Office. |
| Ann Hedley |
(2003-2007) Ann is a bioinformatician who has worked on both our Lumbribase project, and on the NERC Environmental Genomics and NERC Molecular Genetics Facility service bioinformatics helpdesk. She moved on to become a lead bioinformatician with the Queens Institute for Medical Research, University of Edinburgh. |
Ralf Schmid |
(2003-2006) Ralf is a structural bioinformatician, who worked with us on the NemBase and PartiGene projects. He was the lead bioinformatician on our part of the NERC funded Environmental Genomics Thematic Programme Data Centre project. He is now a Lecturer in Bioinformatics at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester. We continue to collaborate on various aspects on the structure-function relationships of nematode genes iddentified in our EST programme. |
James Wasmuth |
(2002-2006) James was PhD student who focussed on the bioinformatic analysis of large EST datasets. He developed the EST translation pipeline Prot4EST and analysed the protein domain content and familes in the nematode EST data. He won the "Young Bioinformatician of the Year" accolade from the UK Young Bioinformatician's Forum in 2005. He moved on to a postdoctoral fellowship in John Parkinson's lab in Toronto, Canada, where he is investigating the derivation of systems biological inference from parasite genomes. |
Claire Conlon |
(2000-2005) Claire is a highly skilled graduate research assistant who worked with us on the nematode EST programme, the Brugia malayi genome programme, the B. malayi endosymbiont Wolbachia genome sequencing project, and the tardigrade (Hypsibius dujardini) genome project. She still works in genomics / systems biology, with the Tyers lab in Edinburgh. |
Habib Maroon |
(2002-2005) Habib was a postdoctoral fellow on the tardigrade evolutionary developmental biology propject, developing methods for tardigrade embryology, and investigating early events in the development of Hypsibius dujardini. Since leaving Edinburgh he has been travelling in Europe. |
Fran Thomas |
(2002-2005) Fran was a technician on the tardigrade project, developing a culture system, keeping the tardigrade cultures going, and investigating lifecycle dynamics of Hypsibius dujardini. She also assisted with the meiofaunal DNA barcoding projects, wherein her knowledge of moss identification and other ecological skills were essential. Since leaving us she has been working as a school science lab technician. |
Katelyn Fenn |
(2001-2005) Katelyn was a Wellcome-funded PhD student investigating the evolutionary and lifecycle dynamics of the symbiosis between Brugia malayi and its Wolbachia bacterial endosymbiont. Katelyn convinced everyone that Wolbachia were the coolest organisms ever. Katelyn is now a postdoctoral fellow with Keith Matthews in Edinburgh, working on RNA metabolism and genetics in the kinetoplastid protozoan, Trypanosoma brucei. |
Jennifer Daub |
(1998-2004) Jennifer was a highly skilled and motivated graduate research assistant who worked with us on the Brugia malayi genome project, the nematode EST programme, and the tardigrade genome project. Since leaving the group she has worked for ARK genomics at Roslin, gained a distinction in the MRes in Bioinformatics in York, and is currently working in the rFam group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, |
Aziz Aboobaker |
(1999-2004) Aziz was a Wellcome PhD student who examined the evolutionary dynamics of the Hox gene cluster in the phylum Nematoda. He won a Wellcome Fellowship to continue in the lab for a year after graduating, when he helped to set up the tardigrade system. He was in the USA for three years on a Wellcome Trust Travelling Fellowship, working in the laboratory of Nipam Patel in Berkeley on evolutionary developmental biology, and returned to the UK to take up an RCUK Lectureship in the University of Nottingham. His group in Nottingham works on a wide range of evodevo topics on arthropods and platyhelminths. |
John Parkinson |
(1999-2004) John was a senior bioinformatics postdoctoral fellow who developed the analytical system that has evolved into Partigene. He produced the first release version of NemBase. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Sick Children's Hospital Medical School and Department of Genetics in Toronto, Canada, where he is developing genomics, systems biology and phylogenomics projects. John still collaborates with us on EST analyses and database development. |
David Guiliano |
(1997-2002) David was a part-time PhD student/graduate research assistant on our part of the global Brugia malayi genome project. He investigated the structure of the B. malayi genome, especially synteny conservation with C. elegans and the evolution of operons. He was a Wellcome Research Fellow with Murray Selkirk at Imperial College, London, working on Trichinella spiralis infection of muscle cells, and is now at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. |
Mark Dorris |
(1996-2001) Mark was a PhD student investigating the molecular phyloogenetics of nematodes, with a particular focus on the important parasitic group, Strongyloides. After a postdoctoral position at heriot Watt University supporting molecular biological investigations in marine biology, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Peter Keightley in Edinburgh, working on mutation rates in mammalian genomes. |
Eyualem Abebe |
(1999-2002) Eyualem was a postdoctoral fellow on a NERC-funded project, part of the Soil Biodiversity and Ecosytstem Function programme, that was our first foray into DNA barcoding. Trained as a zoologist and traditional nematologist, he brought essential skills of nematode taxonomy and systematics, and pushed the project forward. He moved on to Kelley Thomas' lab in new Hampshire, USA, where he has been a key worker on the NemATOL nematode phylogenetics and DNA barcoding programme. Currently an assistant professor he is looking for a permanent position. |
Robin Floyd |
(1999-2002) Robin was PhD student who worked on the nematode barcoding project with Eyualem. Robin developed single-nematode methods for DNA extraction and PCR, and analysed a huge dataset of barcode sequences from Sourhope, the Soil Biodiversity and Ecosytstem Function study site in Southern Scotland. After a period as a postdoctoral fellow with the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, and a trip to the south Atlantic, barcoding nematodes, he took up a postdoctoral position in high-throughput DNA barcoding with Paul Hebert in Guelph, Canada. |
Bill Gregory |
(1999-2002) Bill was an MRC Postdoctoral Fellow investigating the biology of the six-cysteine motif (SXC) and ALT genes in Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes. He is now a senior postdoctoral fellow with Judi Allen in Edinburgh. |
Peter Hunt |
(1996-1999) Peter was a postdoctoral fellow investigating the biology and genetics of globin genes in neamtodes, particularly Mermis nigrescens and Caenorhabditis elegans. He returned to his native Australia to take up a position in Canberra in the genome sequencing group, and is now an independent researcher with interests in plant and nematode genomics, and now works in CSIRO on nematode parasites of plants. |
Daphne Gerrits |
(1994-1997) Daphne was an EU-funded PhD student who worked on the tyrosinase genes of Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes. She is now in academic publishing, and is an accomplished concert pianist and violinist. |
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