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William J. Palmer
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Research Interests |
| My current research seeks to understand the variation seen in the innate immune system of insects and assessing to what extent pathogens and the environment are responsible for shaping its evolution and diversity. I'm currently working with Illumina resequencing and exome-capture data from the disease-vector mosquito Aedes aegypti and the model butterfly Heliconius melpomene. I’m also performing comparative comparative genomic analyses using whole arthropod genomes, and have assisted with the annotation phase of five separate genome sequencing projects (Heliconius, Strigamia, Manduca, Parasteatoda, and Metaseiulus). |
Education and Employment |
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2010 - Present
PhD candidate, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
2009 - 2010 MSc Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants, University of Edinburgh / Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Summer 2009 IAESTE Internship, Department of Engineering, University of Guelph 2005 - 2009 BSc Biology (Hons), University of St Andrews |
PublicationsP.
Juneja, J. Osei-Poku, Y. S. Ho, C. V. Ariani, W. J. Palmer, A. Pain, and F. M. Jiggins. (2014). ‘Assembly
of the Genome of the Disease Vector Aedes Aegypti onto a Genetic Linkage Map
Allows Mapping of Genes Affecting Disease Transmission’.
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