University of St Andrews
 
 

Prof Ian Johnston
Professor

Scottish Oceans Institute
East Sands
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 8LB
UK

School Positions
Chandos Professor of Physiology (1997-present)
Chairman, Scottish Oceans Institute Staff Council (2009 – present)
Director, Gatty Marine Laboratory (1985-2008)
Director of Research, School of Biology (2003-6)
Member, School of Biology Management Group (2000-2006)
Head of School: (Biology & Preclinical Medicine, 1987-1992; Environmental & Evolutionary Biology, 1997-1999)

External Positions
Steering Committee Member of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) – an ESFRI Research Infrastructure in the preparatory phase (2011-2014)
Steering Committee Member of LIFECYCLE an EU-funded FP7 Integrated Research Project (2009-2013)
Vice-President (2005-2007) and President (2007-2009) Society for Experimental Biology
Member of the Natural Environment Research Council & Chairman, Marine Science & Technology Board (1995-2000)
Adjunct Professor, University of Nordland, Norway (2002-2011)

Honours
Elected Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh 1987
Awarded Scientific Medal Zoological Society of London 1984

Research Group
Dr Vera Vieira-Johnston (Honorary Research Fellow)
Dr Daniel J. Macqueen (MASTS Research Fellow)
Dr Daniel Garcia de la serrana (EU-funded)
Dr Thomas Ashton (BBSRC-funded)
Clara Coll-Llado, PhD student/academic apprentice (50% with Dr David Ferrier)

Collaborators
Professor Shugo Watabe, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
Dr Bjarni K. Kristjánsson, Holar University College, Iceland
Dr Robert H. Devlin, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, West Vancouver, Canada
Professor Jorge Fernandes, University of Nordland, Norway
Industrial Partners
Young’s Seafood, SalmoBreed A/S, BioMar, Ewos Innovation

 

Publications

MacQueen, DJ , Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, D & Johnston, IA 2013, ' Evolution of ancient functions in the vertebrate insulin-like growth factor system uncovered by study of duplicated salmonid fish genomes ' Molecular Biology and Evolution , vol Advance Access.
Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, D , Vieira-Johnston, VLA , Andree, KB, Darias, M, Estévez, A, Gisbert, E & Johnston, IA 2012, ' Development temperature has persistent effects on muscle growth responses in gilthead sea bream ' PLoS One , vol 7, no. 12, e51884.
Johnston, IA , Kristjansson, BK , Paxton, CGM , Vieira-Johnston, VLA , MacQueen, DJ & Bell, MA 2012, ' Universal scaling rules predict evolutionary patterns of myogenesis in species with indeterminate growth ' Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol 279, no. 1736, pp. 2255-2261.
Garcia de la Serrana Castillo, D , Estevez, A, Andree, K & Johnston, IA 2012, ' Fast skeletal muscle transcriptome of the Gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) determined by next generation sequencing ' BMC Genomics , vol 13, 181.
Amaral, IPG & Johnston, IA 2012, ' Circadian expression of clock and putative clock-controlled genes in skeletal muscle of the zebrafish ' American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology , vol 302, no. 1, pp. R193-R206.
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