{"id":30365,"date":"2020-06-24T17:39:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/cob2\/?p=30365"},"modified":"2020-06-24T17:39:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:39:58","slug":"ferrier-school-of-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/2020\/06\/24\/ferrier-school-of-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ferrier &#8211; School of Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29189 alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/05\/david-ferrier-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"209\" \/>I joined the University of St Andrews in 2007 as an RCUK Fellow and am now a Reader in Biology and Deputy Director of the Scottish Oceans Institute (SOI), leading the Evolutionary Developmental Genomics (EDGe) research group. Previously, I obtained a DPhil from Cambridge University in the lab of Prof Michael Akam FRS, working on the Hox gene cluster of a grasshopper, followed by postdocs with Prof Jordi Garcia-Fern\u00e0ndez (University of Barcelona) and Prof Peter Holland FRS (University of Reading), and then a Departmental Lectureship at the University of Oxford, working on the Hox\/ParaHox genes of several species, including invertebrate chordates and annelids.<\/p>\n<p>Research areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evolutionary developmental biology<\/li>\n<li>Animal comparative genomics<\/li>\n<li>Amphioxus<\/li>\n<li>Tunicates<\/li>\n<li>Annelids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/edge\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined the University of St Andrews in 2007 as an RCUK Fellow and am now a Reader in Biology and Deputy Director of the Scottish Oceans Institute (SOI), leading the Evolutionary Developmental Genomics (EDGe) research group. Previously, I obtained a DPhil from Cambridge University in the lab of Prof Michael Akam FRS, working on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cob-pis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}