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My research career began with a Bsc in zoology with employment experience at the Animal and Plant sciences department in the University of Sheffield, UK. For my work placement,I worked for one year in the “herbicide screening operation” in at Syngenta’s Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, UK. In this time I not only took part in most of the ongoing projects there but also conducted my own project on herbicide resistance in Sorghum, Sorghum bicolor.
After my bachelor's degree, I then moved onto a PhD also at the University of Sheffield, where I studied the mechanisms of host specificity of different pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) races, which underlines this cryptic species' ongoing speciation. I did so by studying the chemical ecology of the host plant choice, by combining different mass spectrometry techniques to record plant metabolomes with electrophysiology of aphid behaviour using statistics like multidimensional and random forest modelling.
Since completing my PhD in 2016 I have worked in the Department of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In this time, I have secured two postdoctoral positions in the department in two very different research subjects, namely the study role of gene alternative splicing in cold adaptation by Drosophila montana and the development of MICRO-RIP, a new high-throughput tool to measure function at the sequence-specific level. This work has required me in a short period of time to learn a large number of genetic techniques (including: qPCR, primer design, cloning, sequencing, hybridisation, radioisotope probing, chemiluminescence and DNA and RNA labelling methods), as well lean the biology of multiple new eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems. I was also briefly was a visiting researcher at the School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, UK, where I learnt the microinjection technique for CRISPER-Cas9 gene editing of fly embryos. My experiences have taught me to adapt myself quickly to the new and exciting fields of research and to be a versatile thinker.
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JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGYno. 6 (2024): 642-652
Elizabeth J. Parker,Kathryn C. Billane,Nichola Austen,Anne Cotton,Rachel M. George,David Hopkins,Janice A. Lake,James K. Pitman, James N. Prout,Heather J. Walker,Alex Williams,Duncan D. Cameron
Metabolitesno. 4 (2023): 463-463
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