Advice

The University is home to a large and diverse Drosophila research community with expertise on a wide range of different biological topics.

You can access advice by contacting our researchers directly or simply get in touch and we can help you to identify and build connections with the relevant experts, for advice or to establish collaborations.

Hilary Ashe

Research interests: Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP) signalling: development, stem cell maintenance and cancer
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Richard Baines

Research interests: Factors that regulate ion channel expression in developing motoneurons
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Martin Baron

Research interests: The role of cell adhesion molecules in signal transduction, the regulation of stem cell fate and cancer
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Daimark Bennett

Research interests: Using flies as model to study human disease 
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John Robert Davis

Research interests: How forces and metabolism work together to drive development
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Sam Griffiths-Jones

Research interests: Computational biology of non-protein-coding RNAs
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Holly Lovegrove

Research interests: how cells tackle the challenges of undergoing cell division in complex, in vivo environments
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Ellen McMullen

Research interests: Metabolic regulation of the brain under adverse conditions
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Tom Millard

Research interests: Actin dynamics during development and modelling human disease
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Andreas Prokop

Research interests: Cytoskeletal regulation of neuron growth and maintenance
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Matthew Ronshaugen

Research interests: Non coding RNAs in evolution
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Matthias Soller

Research interests: Neurogenetics and posttranscriptional control of gene expression in neurons (alternative splicing & mRNA methylation)
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Fiona Whelan

Research interests: Using Drosophila as a model for microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions
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