Leadership team

Professor James Wakefield

James' research interest is in mitosis and cell division, stimulated by the fundamental beauty of the process as viewed using a fluorescence microscope, and its key role in diseases such as cancer.

Email: J.G.Wakefield@exeter.ac.uk | James' profile

Professor Ivana Gudelj

Email: I.Gudelj@exeter.ac.uk | Ivana's profile

Dr Katie Solomon

Katie's research interests are in the field of Clinical Microbiology, including Clostridium difficile infection, human microbiome in health and disease and antimicrobial resistance.

Email: K.Solomon@exeter.ac.uk | Katie's profile

Professor Eduarda Santos

Eduarda is an environmental biologist investigating how environmental stressors affect living organisms in aquatic systems, both within natural environments and in aquaculture. Her research focuses on fish and other aquatic invertebrates and has ranged from investigating the mechanisms of toxicity of environmental chemicals using (epi)genomics approaches, to understanding disease susceptibility within aquaculture.

Email: E.Santos@exeter.ac.uk | Eduarda's profile

Dr Bonnie Fraser 

Bonnie's research focuses on the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata), a fish that has long served as a model system for evolutionary and ecological research. Bonnie explores local adaptation in this system using an interdisciplinary approach that combines population genomics, quantitative genetics, behavioural ecology, and experimental evolution.

Email: B.Fraser@exeter.ac.uk | Bonnie's profile

Professor Nic Harmer

Nic's work aims to understand enzymes as biological catalysts. Nic seeks to understand enzymes individually from a structure-function perspective: determining their structure and aligning this to function using enzyme assays and complementary methods.

Email: N.J.Harmer@exeter.ac.uk | Nic's profile

Dr Rob Ellis

Rob's research focuses on adaptation and acclimation in animals exposed to environmental change. Specifically, Rob is driven by the question of how a mechanistic understanding of animal physiology can be used to improve the productivity and sustainability of aquaculture in a wide range of production settings. 

Email: R.P.Ellis@exeter.ac.uk | Rob's profile

Dr Orly Razgour

Orly is a molecular ecologist and conservation biologist, researching evolutionary and ecological responses to global environmental change. Orly aims to understand how environmental heterogeneity at different spatial and temporal scales affects geographical distributions, genetic composition and ecological interactions.

Email: O.Razgour@exeter.ac.uk | Orly's profile