We have a highly active, interdisciplinary research team exploring parasitology, evolutionary biology and ecology. Together, the team studies both laboratory and wild populations of carefully chosen study species, including invertebrates such as fruit flies, cockroaches and arachnids.
Our biologists, parasitologists, cell biologists and immunologists (Professor Rita Tewari, Professor Mike Doenhoff and Professor Jan Bradley), collaborate with ecologists (Professor Andrew MacColl, Professor Francis Gilbert, Associate Professor Tom Reader) and evolutionary geneticists (Professor James McInerney, Associate Professor Mary O'Connell, Associate Professor Levi Yant, Associate Professor Angus Davison, Assistant Professor Chris Wade, Professor Olivier Hanotte, Professor John Brookfield and Professor Sara Goodacre).
They’re also joined by affiliates working in ecology and evolution in Assistant Professor Kate Durrant and Assistant Professor Tamsin Majerus.
The team’s current work is furthering our understanding of the factors that contribute to variation in immune responses, through studies of species including wild rodents. They’re also determining how species adapt to new environments, exploring cases such as the freshwater stickleback fish, whose marine ancestors were repeatedly able to colonise freshwater habitats.