Department of Life Sciences, Biology, Ecology and Environmental Biology, Microbiology, Zoology

I investigate how communities are structured in fragmented landscapes of tropical regions....

I work on the evolution of species diversity. Why does life evolve into the distinct species?...

Martin works on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizas, one of the dominant symbioses of...

My research group studies the molecular basis of immune cell development and function. We are...

My research concerns the evolution of modern vertebrate anatomy. I use the fossil record of...

My research group’s activities focus on establishing the mechanistic basis of signal perception...

Homing Endonuclease Genes (HEGs). We have been studying the evolutionary dynamics of these...

Mosquito transmitted pathogens have an enormous impact of human health. A substantial amount of...

Adult haematopoietic stem cells (HSC) maintain all peripheral blood and immune system lineages...

Some problems in controlling diseases such as malaria and riverblindness are caused by the fact...

Our research focuses on vector-borne diseases, including those caused by parasites and viruses....

The ultimate goal of my research is to marry landscape models with empirical data on species...

Our research project aims to tackle the problem of persistence and chronic infection by...

Our group is supported by the BBSRC, MRC and the Wellcome Trust. In our laboratory we use a...