Functional and evolutionary genomics lab

Dr Araxi Urrutia, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath

Former lab members

(click here to see list of collaborators)

(click here to see list of supervised undergraduate project students)

 

PhD students

Wei Wang

PhD student

Funding: University of Bath half-fees bursary

Topic: Evolution of gene order

 

 

Nina Ockendon

PhD student (2010-2014)

Funding: BBSRC Systems Biology studentship

Topic: Behavioural avian genomics

Destination: project manager at Public Health England

 

 

Steve Bush

Part time PhD student (2009-2014)

Funding: University of Bath fees bursary

Topic: Arabidopsis genome evolution

Destination: postdoc at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh

 

 

Jaime M Tovar Corona

PhD student (2009-2013)

Funding: CONACyT scholarship

Topic: Alternative splicing in eukaryotic systems

(Lab manager)

Destination: postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bath and currently software developer at the Sanger Centre

 

Lu Chen

PhD student (2008-2012)

Funding: UK-China scholarship for excellence

Topic: Evolution of alternative splicing

Destination: postdoc at Sanger Centre and Cambridge University

 

Summer interns and visiting Students

Perla Moreno Castilla

Visiting member from Institute of Cellular Physiology, UNAM, Mexico (2014)

Funding: UNAM

Topic: Molecular basis of Alzheimer’s disease

 

Adrian Arellano Davin

Visiting member from Pablo de Olavide University, Spain (2013)

Funding: Royal Society Summer Scholarship

Topic: Evolutionary rates of protein evolution

Destination: PhD student at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

 

William Coleman-Smith

Summer placement student turned permanent group member (2012-2013)

Funding: Royal Society summer studentship bursary

Topic: Alternative splicing and gene characteristics

Destination: predoctoral fellow at EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus

 

Alex Widger

Summer intern and student volunteer (2010)

Destination: PhD student at University College London

 

Shelja Sareen

MSc (2010)

Visiting student

Topic: Codon usage bias in mammalian genomes

Destination: D.A.V. College lecturer, India

 

 

Masters and placement students

Harry Hornsby

Masters project student

Topic: molecular basis of adaptation to aquatic lifestyle in mammals

Destination: PhD student at the National Oceanography Centre

 

Claire Armstrong

Masters project student (2013)

Topic: Evolutionary genomics

Destination: PhD student at the University of East Anglia

 

Qiong Wu

Masters project student (2012)

Topic: Transcriptional sexual dimorphism in primates

 

Agnieszka Ziolek

Masters project student (2012)

Topic: Transcriptional sexual dimorphism in primates

 

Nick Higton

Placement student (2012)

Topic: Mammalian gene family evolution

 

James Wallis

Research masters project (2011)

Topic: Alternative splicing and complex mammalian phenotypes

 

Saurav Sinha

Research masters project (2011)

Topic: Alternative splicing and complex mammalian phenotypes

 

Marina Angelopoulou

MSc project student (2009)

Topic: Amino acid usage and longevity in mammals

Destination: Team manager at United Biscuits

 

 

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