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Invertebrate Research at Durham

The Invertebrate research community at Durham comprises members across 9 research groups, supported by a team of technical staff within the Invertebrate Facility.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

 

Bath, Eleanor  Assistant Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Aggression and competition
  • Sexual selection
  • Social behaviour
  • Behavioural ecology

 

Clark, Rebecca I  Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Intestinal function in health and disease

 

Croset, Vincent   Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Neurosciences
  • Transcriptomics
  • Memory
  • Dopamine
  • Drosophila
  • Behaviour
  • Psychostimulants

 

Davies, Tim  Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • C. elegans development
  • Cell division
  • Cytoskeletal structure and dynamics
  • Live-cell fluorescence microscopy

 

Doupe, David P  Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Ageing
  • Cancer
  • Cell Biology
  • Cell Signalling
  • Chromatin
  • Development
  • Epithelial Stem Cells
  • Imaging
  • Intestine
  • Stem Cells

 

Fitches, Elaine  Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Development of novel protein-based approaches for the control of insect pests

 

McGregor, Alistair P  Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Evolutionary developmental biology
  • Developmental genetics
  • Wnt signalling
  • Gene regulatory networks
  • Morphological evolution
  • Segmentation
  • Regeneration

 

Riabinina, Olena  Associate Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Black soldier flies
  • Mosquitoes
  • Drosophila
  • Bumblebees
  • Development of genetic tools
  • Sensory neuroscience
  • Neuroethology
  • Olfaction
  • Sensory ecology

 

Weinkove, David  Professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • C. elegans
  • E. coli
  • Ageing
  • Host:microbe interactions
  • Microbial folates

 

FACILITY STAFF

 

DR DAVID DOUPE        Facility Academic lead

GILLIAN SUMMERILL   Facility Manager (Invertebrates)

HELEN SIDDLE             Intermediate technician (Invertebrates)

MARINA PIDDUBNA   Assistant Insectary technician (Insect Neuro Lab)