Dr Susan Johnston (PI)

Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk

Susan is a Royal Society University Research Fellow using genomics to understand evolutionary puzzles in natural populations. At present, her main interests are the evolution of recombination rate variation and understanding the genetic architecture of ongoing sexual conflict. She did her undergrad in St Andrews (UK), PhD in Sheffield (UK), and postdocs in Turku (Finland) and Edinburgh.

John McAuley (Darwin Trust PhD Student)

John is a PhD student investigating the causes and consequences of individual recombination rate variation in wild house sparrows in Norway. He did his BSc in Seattle (USA) and an MSc in Salford (UK).

Anna Hewett (NERC E4 PhD Student)

Anna did her MSc project in our group looking at genomic signatures of intra-locus sexual conflict in the Soay sheep of St Kilda. Previously, she did her BSc at Cardiff (UK). She is now doing a PhD in Edinburgh mapping inbreeding depression in Red deer on Rum.

Dr Martin Stoffel (DFG Research Fellow)

Martin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow mapping inbreeding depression in Soay sheep. He completed his PhD at the University of Bielefeld (Germany). His current project is in collaboration with Prof. Josephine Pemberton.

Dr Lucy Peters (NERC E3 PhD Student)

Lucy.Peters@ed.ac.uk

Lucy completed her PhD in 2021 on the genetic architecture of antler morphology and signatures of sexual conflict in Red deer on Rum. She did her BSc in Glasgow (UK) and was a visiting student at Bielefeld (Germany) and is now a postdoc with Bertrand Servin (INRAE Occitanie).

Dr Alexandra Sparks (MRC PhD Student, 2013 – 2017) co-supervised with Prof. Dan Nussey

Alex completed her PhD on evolutionary genetics of helminth-specific immune responses in wild Soay sheep in 2017. She was a postdoc with Dr Hannah Dugdale at the University of Leeds, and is now a postdoc with Prof Jon Slate at the University of Sheffield.