Current members of the Blaxter lab (June 2006)

	Mark Blaxter	Mark is a zoologist turned genomics biologist, with major interests in the genomics of "neglected" animal phyla.
	Ann Hedley	Ann is a senior bioinformatician, involved in a large multi-centre ecotoxicogenomics programme examining earthworrm (Lumbricus rubellus) and nematode (Caenorhabditis elegans) responses to environmental pollutants. She curates the Blaxter lab Lumbribase and NemBase databases, and provides support to users of the NERC Molecular Genetics Facility sequencing service.
	Martin Jones	Martin is a final-year PhD student in bioinformatics, exploring (and writing) tools to utilise emerging genomics datasets for large-scale, deep-level phylogenetic inference.
	Alasdair Anthony	Alasdair joined the lab as part of the NERC funded Environmental Genomics Thematic Programme Data Centre, where he developed trace2dbest. Alasdair is now a second-year PhD bioinformatics student exploring the landscape of the noncoding portions of nematode genomes.
	Jenna Mann	Jenna is a first-year PhD student who is developing molecular barcoding markers for the plant-parasitic Aphelench nematodes.
	?your name here?	there are currently no positions available in the Blaxter lab, but we welcome enquiries from prospective independent research fellows, and PhD stiudents (NOTE: Our institute makes its offers of PhD places in the January of each year, so contact us early!)