Research Themes

Origins of metabolism, genes, the genetic code, molecular machines, cells, and agency

Nick Lane, Andrew Pomiankowski, Finn Werner, Kabir Hussain, John Allen

Deep phylogenetics, microbial mats, ecosystem evolution symbioses, autotrophic metabolism, ancestral sequence reconstruction

Harry-Luke McLelland, Wenying Shou, Joel Dacks, Nick Lane, Ziheng Yang, Finn Werner

Marine algae, isotope fractionation, computational microbiology, snowball earth, quantum biology

Harry-Luke McLelland, Bridget Wade, John Allen, Graham Shields, Jon Bridle, Alexandra Olaya-Castro

Mitochondrial endosymbiosis, sex, sexes, genome size, mitonuclear interactions, mitonuclear adaptation

Nick Lane, Andrew Pomiankowski, Joel Dacks, John Allen, Finn Werner

Slime moulds, oscillatory signalling, game theory, Ediacaran fauna, Cambrian explosion, divergence of major animal groups

Chris Thompson, Max Telford, Stephen Pates, Paola Oliveri, Graham Shields

Genome duplications synteny, genome tectonics, Hox genes, body plans, protostomes, deuterostomes

Ferdinand Marletaz, Max Telford, Jeffrey Thompson, Anjali Goswami, Ryan Felice

Hox genes, development, embryonic specification

Paola Oliveri, Rahia Mashoodh, Max Telford, Jeffrey Thompson

Sexual conflict, sexual antagonism, parental care, mutation load

Max Reuter, Andrew Pomiankowski, Flo Camus, Rahia Mashoodh, Kevin Fowler

Energy, growth and fitness, diet, optimization of male and female fitness, sexual signals, mitonuclear interactions

Flo Camus, Nick Lane, John Allen, Max Reuter, Kevin Fowler

Adaptive radiations, coalescence theory, human evolution

Julia Day, Ziheng Yang, Sean Stankowski, Max Telford, Ferdinand Marletaz, Jon Bridle, Mark Thomas

Evolution of signalling, cuticular hydrocarbons, slime moulds and cheating, adaptive evolution in flies

Duncan Greig, Kabir Hussain, Chris Thompson, Flo Camus, Sean Stankowski, Jon Bridle

Coalescence theory

Ziheng Yang, Christof Dessimoz, Sean Stankowski, Max Telford, Jeffrey Thompson, Mark Thomas, Aida Gomez-Robles

Photonics in photosynthesis, electron spintronics in respiration, chiral-induced spin selectivity, anaesthesia, evolution of consciousness

Nick Lane, Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Kabir Hussain

Visualisation of molecular mechanisms, fitness landscapes, representation in scientific figures

Duncan Greig, Kabir Hussain, Nick Lane, Max Reuter, links with the Slade School