David E.K. Ferrier

Summary

Reader in Biology and Director of the Scottish Oceans Institute, at the University of St Andrews.

The focus of our research is the connection between the content and organisation of genomes to the evolution of development (evo-devo). We utilize a variety of organisms in our research (including amphioxus, sea squirts, polychaetes and priapulids), chosen from key points in the phylogeny of the animals to enable reconstruction of the ancestral conditions at major nodes in the animal kingdom; the origin of bilaterians, protostomes, deuterostomes, chordates and vertebrates.

Developmental Biology Evolutionary Studies Genomics Zoology

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