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The Blaxter Lab

Nematode & Neglected Genomics
@ The Blaxter Lab, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

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Current members of the Blaxter lab

 
Mark Blaxter
Mark is a zoologist turned genomics biologist, with major interests in the genomics of "neglected" animal phyla.
 
Martin Jones
Martin is a bioinformatics fellow, working on an interactive workbench for phylogenomics.
 
John Davey
 John is a postdoctoral reseacher who is developing bioinformatic solutions to the analysis of RAD tag data in species as diverse as snails, moths and salmon.
 
Martin Hebsgaard
 Martin is a visiting Carlsberg fellow who has wide interests in ancient DNA, phylogenomics and arthropod evolutionary genomics.
 
Graham Thomas
 Graham is a PhD student, joint with Judi Allen of IIIR, who is exploring the biology of alternatively activated macrophages induced by nematode infection, using deep sequencing transcriptomics.
 
Jack Hearn
 Jack is a PhD student, joint with Graham Stone of IEB, who is using whole genome sequencing and digital transcriptomics to explore the biology of the gall wasp-host interaction.
 
Ben Elsworth
Ben is a PhD student, and the lead bioinformatician on the Lumbricus rubellus genome project
 
Sujai Kumar

Sujai is a a PhD student investigating evolutionary dynamics of nematode genome sequences.

 
Jenna Mann
Jenna is a just-completed PhD student who developed DNA barcoding markers for the plant-parasitic Aphelench nematodes, and investigated the bioinformatics of analysis of DNA barcode data.
 
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We welcome enquiries from prospective independent research fellows, and PhD students (NOTE: Our institute interviews for PhD places in January or February of each year, so contact us early!)

 
Website Highlight
Meloidogyne incognita

The plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita .
Plant parasitic nematodes cause major economic losses worldwide. Meloidogyne incognita parasitises cotton and other crops . See NEMBASE4 for analyses of ESTs from this parasite and many other nematodes.

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