Research at CEGG:

Plant Population Genetics and Evolution

  • Thomas Meagher
    Parentage analysis, quantitative genetics, phenotypic evolution, sexual dimorphism and evolutionary genomics of plants
  • Richard Abbott
    Phylogeography, speciation, molecular systematics and evo-devo of plants

Animal Population Genetics, Evolution and Behaviour

  • Mike Ritchie
    Sexual isolation, speciation, genetics and phylogeography of animals.
  • Jeff Graves
    Reproductive success and differential parental investment, population genetics, and molecular phylogenies of animals.
  • Kevin Laland
    Theoretical population genetics models of niche construction,
    cultural evolution and gene-culture co-evolution.

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

  • V. Anne Smith
    Computational inference of functional networks: gene regulation, neural information flow, ecological systems.
  • Daniel Barker
    Comparative genomics, phylogeny, functional annotation and population ecology.


Fish Behaviour, Evolution and Physiology

  • Anne Magurran
    Evolution, measurement and conservation of biological diversity,
    particularly in relation to tropical freshwater fish such as the
    Trinidadian guppy and red-bellied piranha.
  • Ian Johnston
    Evolution of muscle architecture in teleost fish. Mechanisms and evolutionary significance of phenotypic plasticity to temperature over different time scales in fish.

Fungal Molecular Genetics

Plant Cell Physiology and Metabolism

  • Alyson Tobin
    Plant cell physiology: control and integration of metabolism and physiology, organelle specialisation

Evolutionary Developmental Biology

  • Dave Ferrier
    Evolution of animal developmental biology, and comparative genomics