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The Blaxter Lab

Nematode & Neglected Genomics
@ The Blaxter Lab, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

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Current members of the Blaxter lab

 
Mark Blaxter
Mark is a zoologist turned genomics biologist, with major interests in the genomics of "neglected" animal phyla.
 
Martin Jones
Martin is a bioinformatics fellow, working on an interactive workbench for phylogenomics.
 
John Davey
 John is a postdoctoral reseacher who is developing bioinformatic solutions to the analysis of RAD tag data in species as diverse as snails, moths and salmon.
 
Martin Hebsgaard
 Martin is a visiting Carlsberg fellow who has wide interests in ancient DNA, phylogenomics and arthropod evolutionary genomics.
 
Graham Thomas
 Graham is a PhD student, joint with Judi Allen of IIIR, who is exploring the biology of alternatively activated macrophages induced by nematode infection, using deep sequencing transcriptomics.
 
Jack Hearn
 Jack is a PhD student, joint with Graham Stone of IEB, who is using whole genome sequencing and digital transcriptomics to explore the biology of the gall wasp-host interaction.
 
Ben Elsworth
Ben is a PhD student, and the lead bioinformatician on the Lumbricus rubellus genome project
 
Sujai Kumar

Sujai is a a PhD student investigating evolutionary dynamics of nematode genome sequences.

 
Jenna Mann
Jenna is a just-completed PhD student who developed DNA barcoding markers for the plant-parasitic Aphelench nematodes, and investigated the bioinformatics of analysis of DNA barcode data.
 
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We welcome enquiries from prospective independent research fellows, and PhD students (NOTE: Our institute interviews for PhD places in January or February of each year, so contact us early!)

 
Website Highlight
Homarus americanus

The american lobster Homarus americanus. See the ARTHROPODA database for analyses of ESTs from this crustacean and many other arthropods.

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