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20 Jun 2022: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. People.

9 Jun 2022: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Our lab studies the evolution and genetics of hosts and parasites, mostly using insects as a model system. Which genes cause variation in susceptibility to infection and why is this variation maintained in populations? How

6 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Osama Brosh. Research Interests. I am a current PhD candidate studying the genetics of immunity. My research focuses on the effect of transposable element insertions on virus resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Education

7 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Francis Jiggins. Employment. 2017- present Professor of Evolutionary Genetics. 2012-2017 Reader of Evolutionary Genetics. 2009-present - Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. 2009-2014 Royal Society

7 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Alex Leitao. Research Interests. I have started my research career by studying the development of immune cells in Drosophila melanogaster. During my PhD, supervised by Elio Sucena, I showed that functional immune cells can

7 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Arunkumar Ramesh. Research Interests. I am interested in the genetic architecture of variability in resistance to infection within a population. Why susceptible individuals persist in a population when resistance to

10 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Elves Duarte. Research Interests. I am interested in studying the interaction between insects and microorganisms, namely between mosquitoes and the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia. The ultimate goal is to establish

10 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dominique Ding. Research Interests. I am a PhD candidate in the group. My current project has been on the evolution of Drosophila immunity through changes in gene expression. We hope to unveil the roles of regulatory

10 May 2020: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Gaspar Bruner. Research Interests. I am broadly interested in symbiotic interactions, partially in tropical insects. My main interest is to understand how mutualist or parasitic partners affect the behavior, ecology and

31 Jan 2017: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Andrew Quinn. Research Interests. Drew works on the role of changes in gene expression due to selection on cis-regulatory elements in the evolution of immune system. This involves using high-throughput RNA sequencing to