Department of Zoology

 

Members of the Department

Head of Department and Professor of Zoology
M. Akam, FRS   Email  Developmental genetic basis of animal diversity
Director, University Museum of Zoology
P.M. Brakefield, FRS  Email   
Professors
W. Amos  Email  Evolutionary genetics
A. P. Balmford, FRS  Email  Conservation science
J. A. Clack, FRS  Email  The fish/tetrapod transition and early tetrapod faunas. Early radiation of amniotes and amphibians
T. H. Clutton-Brock, FRS   Email  Behaviour; ecology; evolution 
N. B. Davies, FRS   Email  Behavioural ecology 
S. B. Laughlin, FRS  Email  Visual information processing; eye design; cell signalling and neural circuit design
H. Skaer  Email  Developmental biology of epithelia
D. J. Smith  Email  Evolution of pathogens
W.J. Sutherland  Email  Conservation biology
Readers
H. A. Baylis  Email  Intracellular signalling
B. G. Hedwig  Email  Neural mechanisms of behaviour in insects
C. Jiggins  Email   Evolutionary Genetics
R. A. Johnstone  Email  Evolutionary and functional modelling of animal behaviour
R. Kilner  Email  Behaviour; Ecology; Evolution
N. I. Mundy   Email  Evolutionary genetics
R. C. Preece   Email  Malacology; Quaternary research
University Senior Lecturers
W. Federle  Email   Biomechanics of animal adhesion, insect-plant interactions
W. A. Foster   Email  Insect evolution and ecology
A. Manica  Email  Population and conservation biology
University Lecturers
R. Asher   Morphology and interrelationships of living and extinct mammals
T. Krude  Email  Regulation of human DNA replication
M. Landgraf  Email  Morphogenesis and patterning of dendrites
B. J. McCabe   Email  Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
Affiliated Lecturer
D. C. Aldridge  Email  Freshwater mussels, Biofoulers and Invasive Species
Honorary Professors
R. Green   Email  Conservation biology of threatened bird species
Emeritus Professors 
C. M. Bate, FRS   Email  Developmental biology; synaptogenesis
Sir Patrick Bateson, FRS   Email  Imprinting in birds, parent-offspring relations in mammals 
M. Burrows, FRS  Email  Neurobiology: integration in neuronal networks
C. P. Ellington, FRS   Email  Animal mechanics 
Sir John Gurdon, FRS   Email  Amphibian embryology; Early development and stem cells
R. A. Hinde, CBE, FRS   Email  Inter-individual relationships 
E. B. Keverne, FRS  Email Behavioural neuroscience
R. A. Laskey, FRS, CBE  Email  Eukaryotic DNA replication and nuclear protein import
S. H. P. Maddrell, FRS   Email  Fluid secretion and control mechanisms in insect epithelia 
P. Simpson, FRS   Email  Conservation of genetic elements known from Drosophila and control of bristle patterns in other Diptera
Research Fellows and other Principal Investigators
R. S. K. Barnes   Email  Biology of brackish waters 
M. de L. Brooke  Email  Molecular taxonomy and bird conservation
D. Burke  Email Protein structure, computational structural biology and infectious disease.
J. Casal-Jimenez  Email Planar cell polarity
J. W. Davey  Email  Genome architecture and animal diversity
B. J. Denholm  Email  Drosophila developmental biology
L. V. Dicks  Email  Conservation of pollinators and farmland wildlife
R. H. L. Disney  Email  Natural history, taxonomy and phylogeny of the Phoridae
J. R. Flowerdew   Email  Small mammal ecology 
A. E. Friday   Email  Mammalian evolution; evolutionary trees 
T. A. Gardner  Email Sustainability science, biodiversity conservation, land-use change & tropical forests
M. Giannakou  Email Investigating Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease interactions using Drosophila
C. Green  Email Replication fork dynamics
L. Hautier  Email   
N. J. Lane, OBE   Email  Intercellular junctions 
P.A. Lawrence, FRS  Email Planar cell polariy
R. M. Merrill  Email  Evolution of behavioural isolation
B. Olofsson  Email Molecular mechanisms coupling food perception and behaviour in C. elegans
S. R. Ott  Email  Mechanisms of neural plasticity during swarm-formation in the locust
I. Palacios  Email  Cell polarity and cell fate in the Drosophila female and male reproductive system: a Cell Biological and Biophysical approach
K. Peh  Email  Ecosystems
B. T. Phalan  Email   
E. Piddini   Email  Competitive cell interactions in normal physiology and cancer 
J. Pines   Email  Cell cycle regulation 
H. Rowland  Email   
C. Russell  Email Pathogen evolution and epidemiology
C. Spottiswoode  Email  Bird behavioural ecology and life histories
J. Stevenson-Hinde   Email  Behavioural inhibition in young children 
H. ter Hofstede  Email Sensory ecology of bats and their insect prey.
D. M. Vallejo  Email  Epigenetic stability during DNA replication and its role in cancer
P. Zegerman  Email The Regulation of Replication Initiation in Eukaryotes
Departmental Administrator
J. Jacobs  Email