Slate Group - University of Sheffield

Personnel

Jon Slate - lab head

Anna Santure - postdoc on ERC great tit project
Isabelle de Cauwer - postdoc on ERC great tit project
Emily Brown - PhD student on selection and evolution of Soay sheep parasite resistance genes
Sanad Alfhudala - PhD student on Egyptian spiny mouse population and immuno-genetics
Rachel Tucker - Technician - SNP typing on stalk-eyed flies, field crickets, zebra finches and more!

Associate Members
Julia Reger - PhD student on Daphnia ecological genomics
Clair Bennison - PhD student working on zebra finch genetics

Alumni
Jake Gratten (Postdoc 2003-09). Now postdoc human GWAS projects at U of Queensland
Jess Stapley (Postdoc 2007-10). Now Marie Curie fellow working on lizard genomics
Deborah Alonghi Johnson (Postdoc 2008-09). Now faculty at Castleton State College, Vermont.
Philine Feulner (Postdoc 2007-09). Now postdoc at University of Munster
Susan Johnston (PhD student 2006-10). Now postdoc with Craig Primmer at Turku
Juan Galindo (Postdoc 2007-09). Now postdoc with Roger Butlin (Sheffield)
Robert Ekblom (Postdoc 2007-09). Now postdoctoral fellow in Uppsala.
Alex Ball (Technician 2007-09). Now PhD student in Bath
Claire Wordley (MBiolSci student - co-supervised by Jess Stapley). Now PhD student at Leeds
Jim Mossman (PhD student, 2004-2008). Postdoc at Brown University with David Rand.
Matt Hale (PhD student, 2003-2007). Now postdoc at Purdue with Andrew DeWoody
Gavin Hinten (Postdoc. 2004-2005). Now postdoc at Dept of Environment, Australia.
Bethan Lowder (MBiolSci). Now PhD student in Edinburgh
Jacqui Long (MBiolSci). Now a school teacher.
Dr Melissa Gunn (PDRA, now at Central Science Laboratories)
Katie Hartnup (Technician, now PhD student at Massey University, New Zealand)
Harriet Mellenius (Summer visitor 2007), now Masters student with Hans Ellegren in Uppsala

Lab acronym
Lots of labs seem to have acronyms these days. We struggled to find a good one, rejecting candidates such as SMEG (Slate’s Molecular Ecology Group), SWAG (Studies of Wild Animal Genomics), SMEL (Slate’s Molecular Evolution Lab) and GENE (Genetics, Evolution ‘N’ Ecology). Perhaps WAGS - Wild Animal Genomic Surveys - is most appropriate.

However, if were WAGs we would probably look like this. We don’t (much).