News
October 2022: Dr Toby Baril passes his PhD viva examination with no corrections!
Many congratulations to Dr Baril! As well as many thanks to external examiner Clément Gilbert and internal examiner David Studholme! Thank you to Clément also for giving a special seminar at the CEC on his fascinating research on Horizontal Transmission of Transposons.
Dr Baril leaves the Exeter Transposon Research Group to take up a postdoc with Daniel Croll at the Pathogen Genomics Group at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Kudos also to Toby's friends who made him an impressive DNA-microchip cake to celebrate his PhD in transposon bioinformatics!
November 2021: PhD student Toby Baril releases first version of the earlGrey TEA pipeline!
After years of hard work fueled by hot beverages, Toby has released the earlGrey Transposable Element Annotation pipeline, which strives to make transposon annotation as accessible and accurate as possible. Check it out here: https://github.com/TobyBaril/EarlGrey
August 2021: We welcome new postdoc James Galbraith to the group to work on DDE transposon evolution!
James Galbraith joins us fresh from his PhD in the Adelson group, University of Adelaide. James's second supervisor was Alex Suh, University of East Anglia, so he comes with great transposable element heritage! During his PhD, James focussed on the transposons of elapid snakes, on which he has published several manuscripts. Welcome James, it's really great to have join the lab!
March 2021: We are looking for a new postdoc to work on transposon evolution!
If you are interested in working at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, on transposon evolution, please get in touch!
Please see the official job advert below:
November 2020: We are looking for a new postdoc to start in Spring 2021, to work on transposon evolution!
If you are interested in working at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, on transposon evolution, please get in touch!
Please see the official job advert below:
November 2020: New lab servers!
Toby is building a new server array to extend our existing computational capacity.
Ryan Biscocho joins us on an SWBio BBSRC PhD studentship, after a Master's at the University of Bristol, to work on the influence of transposons during livestock domestication. For this, Ryan will also be supervised by Dr Pablo Orozco-terWengel at Cardiff University.