Associate Professor and Reader in Evolutionary Genetics, University of Nottingham
In my research, I use snails to understand evolutionary and developmental genetics. New DNA sequencing techniques are enabling us to do what was not possible only a few years ago.
In a recent breakthrough, we showed that variation in a cell-scaffolding protein is linked to symmetry-breaking in the pond snail, creating either right- or left-coiling snails. Subsequent efforts to further develop the research ended up in a world-wide quest to find a mate for a very rare left-coiling snail, which we called "Jeremy". This helped communicate my science, and also led, on a winding path, to a British Science Association media fellowship at the BBC in 2018.
Record for decoding the longest DNA sequence is impressive – here's what to expect next
Dec 31, 2018 12:15 pm UTC| Science Health
Like other professionals, scientists like to be the best at what they do, but they also like to have fun in their job. And in 2018, my colleagues managed just that in claiming a record for decoding the worlds longest DNA...
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