Little Lab

Host-Parasite Coevolution at the University of Edinburgh



News: latest NERC funding

The Genetics and Evolution of Maternal Effects (2011-2014), Mapping the Arms Race Genome (2012-2015)

News: Maternal Effects Symposium

May 9 2012. A one day symposium on Maternal Effects and Disease, sponsored by NERC and the CIIE

News: Evolution is the Problem

And evolution is the solution, see Harnessing Evolutionary Biology to combat Infections Disease. Nature Medicine 18: 217-220

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We are a research laboratory studying host-parasite interactions with an evolutionary slant. Our work combines the study of immune responses, the genomic regions and genes that underlie susceptibility and, ultimately, evolutionary dynamics in the field. Our study system is the crustacean Daphnia and its bacterial microparasites