Emília Santos
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral researcher
Demian Burguera
Postdoctoral Researcher
Connie Whiting
PhD student
Irene Soto-Bajo
PhD student
Joel Elkin
PhD student
Patrícia Duarte
PhD student
Suhaib Yatoo
PhD student
Tereza Maxerova
MPhil student
Astatotilapia calliptera
Our favourite model system
Honorary lab members
Alumni
Bethan Clark - PhD project on colour pattern variation (see their work here and there and stay tuned for some more exciting chapters!)
Aaron Hickey - PhD project on colour pattern variation (see their work here and stay tuned for some more exciting chapters!)
Holly Thompson - Summer internship and PartII undergraduate project on thyroid hormone regulation of pigmentation pattern development.
Archie Karunaratna - MPhil project on the function of sox10 paralogs in cichlid fishes (see part of their work here)
Melanie Henot - Summer internship and PartII undergraduate project on the genetic basis of interspecific variation in pigmentation patterns.
Josie McPherson - Summer internship on the evolution of pigmentation patterns.
Jordan Johnson - Summer internship on the genetic basis of intraspecific variation in sexually selected traits.
Sam McKay - MPhil project on cichlid craniofacial development (see part of their work here).
Cassandra Yang - MPhil project on the function of sox10 paralogs in cichlid fishes (see part of their work here).
Elio Escamilla - Erasmus Summer student that helped us troubleshoot the HCR in situ protocol in cichlid embryos.