Macqueen Lab - Roslin Institute

Congratulations to Mike Gallagher who passed his remote (lockdown) viva with minor corrections on May 21st 2020

Thanks to Mike's external examiner Dr Jean-Christophe Avarre (ISEM) and internal examiner Dr Christine Tait-Burkard (Roslin) for doing this whole thing over S...

Congratulations to Oliver Eve, who has been awarded a 4 year fully funded PhD studentship in the lab, funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO DTP scheme, starting in the Autumn this year.

Oli will study transcript diversity associated with fish immune responses using full-length RN...

Congratulations to Alicia Bertolotti, who recently passed her PhD viva for a project titled "Characterisation of Structural Variation in the Atlantic Salmon Genome".

Huge thanks to Alicia's external examiner Dr Philine Feulner from Eawag Swiss Federal Institute of Aquat...

A new PhD opportunity is available in the Macqueen lab through the EASTBIO scheme, in collaboration

with Prof. Sam Martin's lab in Aberdeen

"Functional role of transcript diversity in salmon immunity: development of full-length RNA sequencing"

See:

https://www.findaphd.com...

Are you interested in the functional genomics of fishes, framed in an evolutionary context?

Then apply for a 38 month post-doc position in my lab employed on the EC H2020 programme funded AQUA-FAANG project. See below

Closing date: 19 July 20. Contact me to find out more...

Huge congratulations to Manu (centre) for passing his viva with minor corrections. Manu is everyone's favourite guy, so his excellent performance was well received all round.

Many thanks to Manu's external examiner Dr Michaël Bekaert (left) from the University of S...

It was recently confirmed that the European Commission will start grant preparation for the Horizon 2020 project 'AQUA-FAANG – Advancing European Aquaculture by Genome Functional Annotation.' The project will run 48 months, has a value of 6 million Euros, and is likely...

Come join my lab at the Roslin Institute!

A core scientist position is available for at least 28 months, investigating fundamental and applied aspects of genome structure, function and evolution. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the cutting-edge of genomics in...

The Macqueen lab will play a major role in a new BBSRC project funded under the UK Aquaculture Initiative as a consortium grant:

AquaLeap: Innovation in Genetics and Breeding to Advance UK Aquaculture Production

This 36 month project will be led by Prof. Ross Houston at...

Big congratulations to Dwight Causey, who has published his first paper in the Journal of Proteomics. 

The paper is titled "Proteomic comparison of selective breeding and growth hormone transgenesis in fish: Unique pathways to enhanced growth"

https://www.sciencedirect....