Brianna banting

phd student

PhD Project: Evolution following whole genome duplication - a comparative investigation of plant and animal genomes.

Supervised by: Prof. Dan Macqueen and Dr. Alex Twyford (School of Biological Sciences).

project title

postgraduate research

I am a PhD student in the Macqueen group. My project focuses on comparing evolutionary outcomes of whole genome duplication across the tree of life. I will investigate the rediploidisation process in diatoms, plants, and animals.

Biography & Previous Work

I have an undergraduate degree in Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Maryland and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh. For my MSc I studied introgression and speciation in a group of Scottish montane willows, developing my skills in population genetics and bioinformatics. I then worked for Forest Research, focusing on quantitative genetics. Next, I transitioned to working on plant-microbe symbioses at Washington State University, returning to bioinformatics and statistics.

outside of work