People
Karl Grieshop (PI)
Lecturer (~Assistant Prof.) in Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of East Anglia.
Bachelor’s and Master’s with Mike Polak at the University of Cincinnati (2009, 2012), PhD with Göran Arnqvist and David Berger at Uppsala University (2017), postdocs with Aneil Agrawal at the University of Toronto (2018-2022), and Mike Polak / Josh Benoit at the University of Cincinnati (2023).
Becky Williams
PhD student using theoretical modelling and Drosophila melanogaster experimental genomics to study the role of sex- and temperature-specific dominance in adaptive plasticity .
Grace Truter
MSci Res student characterising candidate sexually antagonistic regions of the Drosophila melanogaster genome.
Gabriel Poretti
MSc student exploring the evolutionary invasion of sex-specific dominance modifiers with population genetic simulations of biophysically explicit gene regulatory networks.
Emil Lagasca
Undergraduate dissertation student exploring if/when/how sex-specific dominance reversal maintains sexually antagonistic genetic variation using population genetic simulations of biophysically explicit gene regulatory networks.
Lauren Smith
Undergraduate dissertation student characterising single-cell gene expression in genes with sex-specific cis-regulatory variation in Drosophila melanogaster.
Luke Cunha
Undergraduate dissertation student characterising single-cell gene expression in genes with tissue-specific cis-regulatory variation in Drosophila melanogaster.
Aisa Kana
Undergraduate dissertation student characterising Drosophila melanogaster genes with sex- and temperature-specific cis-regulatory variaton.
Ellie Howatson
Undergraduate dissertation student studying signatures of antagonistic selection in Drosophila melanogaster orthologues of human genes that underlie sex-specific genetic diseases.
Jacob Neal
Bioinformatician developing novel ways of identifying sexually antagonistic genetic variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Former Grieshop Lab MRes student, also formerly at Tropic.