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9 Sep 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Sophie Smith. Research Interests. Sophie provides support to research in the Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory in Madingley. She is primarily working on the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Education and Employment. BSc. MSc. Designed

10 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Carlos Luque. Research Interests. I am involved in the design and optimization of gene editing tools in Drosophila melanogaster, such as CRISPR/Cas9. We are harnessing the power of fly genetics to improve these techniques,

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Mike Magwire. Research Interests. Mike is interested in the genetic architecture of viral resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Currently he is mapping several viral resistance genes in D. melanogaster using deficiency

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Claire Webster. Employment. 2007-present Research Technician, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh. 2005 – 2006 Honours Project Student then Research Technician Chris Jiggins Group, Institute of

3 Dec 2011: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Hannah Schweyen. Research Interests. Hannah is performing a genome-wide association study to identify polymorphisms in Drorosphila melanogaster that affect susceptibility to DAffSV. DAffSV is a sigma virus that naturally

28 Nov 2011: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Chuan Cao. Research Interests. The presence of evolutionary effects that pathogens and hosts have on one another provides an excellent model to study co-evolution. Among the limited knowledge we have now, virus-Drosophila

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Emma Louise Rhule. Research Interests. The aim of Emma's PhD is to assess the potential of the sexually-transmitted mite, Coccipolipus hippodamiae, as a classical biological control agent of the invasive ladybird, Harmonia

20 Sep 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Suzan Ok. Research Interests. My primary research interests include microbiology and host-symbiont dynamics. For my project, I am investigating the coevolutionary relationship between the fruit fly Drosophila and the

1 Nov 2014: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Daniel Fabian. Research Interests. I am interested in the genetic basis of traits and the selective mechanisms causing adaptation, particularly in the context of immunity and life history. To study these topics I am using

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Anastasia Fytrou. Research Interests. Natasa is interested in the evolution of host-parasite interactions, using Drosophila and parasitic wasps as a model system to investigate the genetic determination of resistance. Her

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Lena Wilfert. Research Interests. Lenas research focuses on the evolution of host-parasite interactions. She is particularly interested in the maintenance of genetic variation and recombination in natural populations, two

9 Apr 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Fergal Waldron. Research Interests. It is of major biological interest to uncover the extent to which genetic variation influences host susceptibility and pathogen virulence and also the degree to which evolution can create

12 Apr 2011: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Punita Juneja. Research Interests. I am broadly interested in the genetic basis and evolution of adaptive traits. For my PhD, I studied short term evolution of the immune response of Drosophila melanogaster and addressed

8 Mar 2017: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Julien Martinez. Research Interests. I have a broad interest in evolutionary biology and specifically in host-symbiont coevolution. My current research focuses on the association between the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia

22 Feb 2016: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Ben Longdon. Research Interests. I have a broad interest in host-parasite ecology and evolution. My current interest focuses on how parasites switch between host species, what factors affect the ability of parasites to

12 Jun 2014: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. William J. Palmer. Research Interests. My current research seeks to understand the variation seen in the innate immune system of insects and assessing to what extent pathogens and the environment are responsible for shaping

12 Jan 2015: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Helen Leggett. Research Interests. I work on the evolutionary ecology of microbes by primarily studying evolution in real-time in controlled lab experiments (experimental evolution) with various strains of bacteria

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Jenny Bangham. Research Interests. In nature, there is a great deal of genetic variation for susceptibility to pathogens, and this has implications for medicine, agriculture, and evolution. Finding the genes responsible

20 Sep 2013: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Rodrigo Cogni. Research Interests. I have broad interests in evolutionary biology and ecology. To study fundamental questions in these fields I use insects. Insects are the most diverse group of animals on the planet, and

6 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Jon Day. Research Interests. My current work aims to more fully understand the genetic basis of the resistance of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to infection by its nemesis, the parasitic wasp Leptopilina boulardi.