Cecilia Balestreri
PhD student (MBA and University of Oxford: Dr Ros Rickaby). Genetic and physiological variability in natural coccolithophore populations. Funded by the UK NERC Ocean Acidification Research Programme.
Abdul Chrachri
Postdoctoral researcher. Biophysics and cell biology of transport, signalling and intracellular homeostasis in coccolithophores and diatoms. Functional characterisation of plasma membrane ion channel genes.
Peter Collingridge
Postdoctoral researcher. Molecular mechanisms underlying spatio-temporal patterns of calcium signalling in Chalmydomonas flagella. Regulation of flagellar calcium channel activity. Funded by BBSRC
Grazyna Durak
PhD student (MBA and University of Plymouth: Dr Jason Hall-Spencer): Silicification and calcification mechanisms in haptophytes studied with genomics, transcriptomics, cell biology and physiological approaches. Funded by EU Interreg IV Marinexus project.
Matt Hall
Cell and Molecular Laboratory manager
Andrea Highfield
Postdoctoral researcher with Dr Declan Schroeder: Coccolithophore genetic and physiological responses to ocean acidification. Funded by the UK NERC Ocean Acidification Research Programme.
Vivienne Johnson
PhD student (MBA and University of Plymouth: Dr Jason Hall-Spencer). Ecology and physiology of benthic organisms inhabiting Mediterranean CO2 vent systems. Funded by NERC
Luke Mackinder
PhD student (MBA and IFM-Geomar, Kiel, Germany: Professor Ulf Riebesell) : Gene expression in coccolithophores in relation to calcification and responses to elevated CO2. Marie Curie Postgraduate Fellow funded through the EU CalMarO (Calcification in Marine Organisms) programme.
Chloe Singleton
Postdoctoral researcher. Molecular regulation of calcification in coccolithophores. Characterization of calcification regulatory proteins. Funded by the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA).
Kim Stevens
PhD student with Dr Declan Shroeder (MBA and University of Plymouth: Dr Murray Brown): Host-virus interaction in the brown seaweed Ectocarpus. Funded by EU Interreg IV Marinexus project.
Glen Wheeler
Senior researcher (MBA and Plymouth Marine Laboratory). Signalling and cell biology in algae and phytoplankton. Flagellar signalling in Chlamydomonas (BBSRC-supported), pH homeostasis and H+ channels in coccolithophores. Coccolithophore gene expression and metabolomics.
Dr. Alison Taylor (Former MBA Fellow): University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA
Dr. John Bothwell (Former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow): Queens University of Belfast
Dr. Frederic Verrett (Former EU and NERC postdoctoral researcher): University of the Algarve, Portugal
Dr. Garry Farnham (Former EU postdoctoral researcher): Plymouth Marine Applications Ltd.
Dr. Deirdre MacLaughlan (Former NERC PhD Student): School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
Dr. Niall Rauh (Former NERC PhD student)