Developmental biology
The Developmental Biology Theme aims to understand how a complete adult organism is generated from a single egg cell. Our research uses animals and plants to address wide ranging questions, including: How are differentiated cells produced? What processes maintain stem cells? How can one cell type be converted into another cell type? How is cell number controlled? The relationship between evolution and development?
This fundamental research is important for diverse areas ranging from regenerative medicine to crop improvement.
Developmental biology research theme membership
Dr Andy Chalmers
Regulation of cell-cell junctions and proliferation in normal and cancerous epithelial cells
Dr Steve Dorus
Integrating proteomic, transcriptomic and comparative genomic approaches in the study of sexual selection and genome evolution
Dr James Doughty
Cell and molecular biology of pollen-stigma recognition and signalling in flowering plants
Dr Makoto Furutani-Seiki
in vivo analysis of fish modeling human diseases and regeneration
Dr Robert Kelsh
Cell biology, genetics and systems biology of zebrafish neural crest development
Dr Tony Perry
The critical determinants of mammalian totipotency and their applications
Dr Nick Priest
Evolution of complex traits in theory, experimental systems and nature
Dr Rod Scott
Cell and molecular biology of plant development and reproduction for application in crop improvement using GM methods.
Microalgae for fuel, food, waste water cleaning and CO2 capture
Dr Vasanta Subramanian
Vertebrate Developmental Genetics, Stem Cell Biology and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell models of Development and Disease
Dr David Tosh
Transdifferentiation and metaplasia as a paradigm for understanding the molecular and cellular events in developmental biology and cancer
Dr Andrew Ward
Growth factors, tumour suppressor genes and imprinting in development, growth and cancer
Dr Paul Whitley
Molecular interactions in membrane trafficking
Dr Will Wood
Cell migration and chemotaxis
