2016-present: Professor of Developmental Biology 2013-2015: Reader in Developmental Biology 2004-2012: Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield. 1997-2004: Lecturer, University of Sheffield. 1994-1997: Imperial Cancer Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellow and Linacre College Junior Research Fellow, Developmental Biology Unit, University of Oxford, and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. Research Advisor: Dr Julian Lewis. 1994: EMBO Short Term Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen. Research Advisor: Professor Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. 1992-1994: Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology and Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Campaign Institute, University of Cambridge. Research Advisor: Professor Chris Wylie. 1989-1992: Wellcome PhD student, Department of Zoology and Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Campaign Institute, University of Cambridge. Research Advisor: Professor Chris Wylie. 1986-1989: BA Natural Sciences (Zoology), University of Cambridge.

My group uses the zebrafish as a model organism to study the development and function of the inner ear.

We are interested in the early patterning and evolution of otic structures, modelling of auditory and vestibular disease, ototoxicity and fluid regulation in the ear.

Alsina B & Whitfield TT (2016) Sculpting the labyrinth: Morphogenesis of the developing inner ear. Semin Cell Dev Biol. View this article in White Rose Research Online Baxendale S & Whitfield TT (2016) Methods to study the development, anatomy, and function of the zebrafish inner ear across the life course. Methods in Cell Biology, 133. View this article in White Rose Research Online Whitfield TT (2015) Development of the inner ear. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 32, 112-118. View this article in White Rose Research Online Stooke-Vaughan GA, Obholzer ND, Baxendale S, Megason SG & Whitfield TT (2015) Otolith tethering in the zebrafish otic vesicle requires Otogelin and -Tectorin. Development, 142(6), 1137-1145. View this article in White Rose Research Online Maier EC & Whitfield TT (2014) RA and FGF Signalling Are Required in the Zebrafish Otic Vesicle to Pattern and Maintain Ventral Otic Identities. PLoS Genetics, 10(12), e1004858-e1004858. View this article in White Rose Research Online Whitfield TT & Monk N (2014) Julian Hart Lewis, FRS (1946-2014) Obituary. DEVELOPMENTAL CELL, 29(5), 507-509.