Current Member - Dr. Peter Harrison
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Peter Harrison
Details
Name: Dr. Peter Harrison
Position: Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Email: peter.harrison@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Autobiography
I started in the Zoology department as an undergraduate studying Biological Sciences from 2003 to 2006. I then moved to the University of York, where I completed an MRes in Bioinformatics (2006-2007) and went on to complete my PhD (2007-2011) under the supervision of Professor Peter Young. My doctoral research focused upon the evolution and composition of bacterial genomes. I have now returned to the Zoology department as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Dr. Judith Mank’s Evolutionary Genomics Laboratory within the EGI to investigate the evolution of sexual dimorphism in birds.
Research Activities
My broad interests focus around the application of computational methods to both genomic data and the study of evolution. My current research employs whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing (RNA-seq) to investigate the contribution of changes in coding sequence, expression, and alternative splicing to the evolution of sexual dimorphism in birds.
Selected Papers
BAILLY, X., GIUNTINI, E., SEXTON, M. C., LOWER, R. P. J., HARRISON, P. W. & YOUNG, J. P. W. (2011) Population genomics of Sinorhizobium medicae based on low-coverage sequencing of sympatric isolates. The ISME Journal . | Read abstract/paper online
HARRISON, P. W., LOWER, R. P. J., KIM, N. K. D. & YOUNG, J. P. W. (2010) Introducing the bacterial ‘chromid’: not a chromosome, not a plasmid. Trends in Microbiology, 18: 141-148. | Read abstract/paper online
HARRISON, P. W. & KRUGER, N. J. (2008) Validation of the design of feeding experiments involving [14C]substrates used to monitor metabolic flux in higher plants. Phytochemistry, 69: 2920-2927. | Read abstract/paper online
