Dr Robin Allaby
|
||
TITLEAssociate Professor CONTACT
|
RESEARCH PROFILEKey interest areas: plant evolutionary genetics; evolution of plant domestication; molecular archaeobotany; molecular anthropology; phylogenomics; software design for population dynamics and molecular evolution. In my group we are interested in the evolutionary dynamics associated with the plant domestication process on several levels of organization: the gene, the genome, the population and the selective environment in which the population exists. We utilize genetic information directly from both archaeological and modern samples, and develop bioinformatic approaches for high throughput analysis. We also work closely with the archaeology community. Our empirical work is balanced by a theoretical approach, through computational biology, in which we study the complex evolutionary system which gives rise to the patterns of genetic diversity we observe. Using this in vitro and in silico two-pronged approach we wish to answer questions about where crops come from, and how plants such as crops become locally adapted to environmental conditions. Such information may help us in the future to produce crops which are better adapted to a wider range of conditions: the key to a sustainable future is to understand the past.Research Themes: Environmental Resource Management; Plant Science |
BACKGROUND PhD, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1996 Fellow of the Linnean Society |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
|
|
|
|
Update My Profile on the Warwick eRA Portal
You can Track My Proposals here |
My Profile last updated: 02/04/2013 |
Bat Genotyping Service
We have recently started investigating bats in the UK through an ecological forensics service which ecologists can make use of to identify bat species on their surveys.
