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Introducing....the biologists here at Queen's.
@AnnetteFayet is a Junior Research Fellow & #seabird ecologist. She studies the movements & annual cycles of long-lived #seabirds & why some species, e.g. #puffins or #tropicbirds, are declining. Her #fieldwork takes her to remote islands in the Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Oceans.
Joseph Poore is a DPhil student who's trying to change the way we eat. He's researching land use @ICCS_updates and is leading development of of the HESTIA platform on food sustainability @oxmartinschool.
@sam_caygill pictured here driving his dad's tractor, is committed to improving crop yields through better understanding of weed genetics and herbicide resistance. He graduated from Queen's in 2019 and is currently a DPhil student at Oxford.
Denise Swanborn @DJBSwan is focused on the relationship between seabed topography and marine biodiversity in the Indian Ocean. She is currently studying for a DPhil @OxfordEnvRes with the exciting @nektonmission.
@janelangdale is a professorial fellow and plant developmental geneticist dissecting mechanisms of cell-type differentiation in grass leaves. Discoveries made in maize are being used to engineer leaf anatomy in rice - with a view to increasing yield @c4rice.
The intrepid April Burt @apriljazB is working to inform the management of island ecosystems. An @OxfordEnvRes DTP student, she spent 8 years on #Seychelles and is now studying plastic pollution, management and #coralreefs in partnership with @SIF_Seychelles.
@Tom_Lewin is working on the role of divergent homeobox genes in early mammalian embryos. He studied biology at Queen's from 2015-2018 and is now a DPhil student in the @OxZooDept.
@TomHughesPlants is working on leaf development in crops such as maize and rice. He’s unpicking the genes that underpin development as part of an effort to develop better crops @C4RiceProject.
@carmen_agro is studying bacterial regulatory networks so that we can improve #nitrogenfixation, a biological process that could make agriculture more sustainable. She's also a much-loved associate tutor at Queen's!
Jinlin Chen is studying fruit flies and their parasitoids @OxZooDept. For her DPhil she hopes to unravel how communities are assembled and how they respond to climate change, supervised by @OwenTLewis.
Lawrence Cummins @lc_sstnblty is researching barriers to a greener built environment within the construction industry. His PhD @CES_Surrey is a partnership with family-owned @WatesGroup. He graduated from Queen's in 2019.
Elliot Howard-Spink @Elliothowaspi is a Dphil student in @OxZooDept researching the origins of Human language cognition by investigating the behaviours of wild chimpanzees. Here's Elliot in the field (with some suspicious chimps looking back at him).
@AnnaEDewar is researching the evolution of cooperation across the tree of life. Graduating from Queen’s in 2017, she is now a DPhil student in @OxZooDept. Her current project - the evolution of social behaviour in bacteria.
@WJSmith97 is seeking to uncover the wild rock dove before it is hybridised out of existence. He graduated from Queen's in 2019 and doing a DPhil here with @egioxford @OxZooDept. This involves #fieldwork in the Northern Isles and Hebrides.
@MattMcLoughlin_ is investigating how ageing impacts blood stem cells, which can lead to cancer. He is now studying for a PhD at the Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge ( @SCICambridge), and graduated from Queen's in 2019.
@Roisin_LF investigates the genes that control the development of petal spots @plantsci in Cambridge. These pigmented spots attract pollinators in a South African daisy and involves fieldwork in the Northern Cape. Roisin graduated from Queen's in 2014.
@BrittanyMaxted manages the Poole Harbour Osprey Project, alongside her PhD research into the recovery and #spatialecology of the British osprey population. She studied biology at Queens from 2015-2018.
