Biography
Following a BA in Biological Sciences (2008-2011, University of Oxford) and an MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology (2011-2012, Imperial College London), I did my PhD over the road in the Zoology Department in Michael Akam’s lab (2012-2016, University of Cambridge). I have been a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College since 2017, and recently spent two years in Angela DePace’s lab (2019-2021, Harvard Medical School) on an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship. Most of my research has been on various aspects of anteroposterior patterning in the Drosophila blastoderm; I also have strong interests in arthropod evo-devo and vertebrate somitogenesis.
Research Interests
- Anteroposterior patterning in Drosophila, other arthropods, and other bilaterians
- Gene regulation and gene regulatory networks
- Developmental patterning systems and their evolution
- Concepts, models, and theories in developmental biology
