I am an EASTBIO-funded PhD student studying the evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms in malaria parasites.
Circadian rhythms are driven by internal biological clocks, and impact all living organisms. Parasites are often confronted with both host and vector rhythms, which can offer time-of-day dependent opportunities to exploit and rhythmic dangers to evade. In the real world, we are seeing a shift in mosquito biting times (=malaria transmission to and from hosts) in response to the use of insecticide-treated bednets. I'm particularly interested in the impacts of changing time-of-day of transmission on parasite fitness and evolution, as well as possible impacts of rhythm misalignment between parasites/hosts/vectors.
Positions / experience
February 2023 - September 2023: Research Assistant (AMR group), Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh.
September 2021 - September 2022: MSc (Infection Biology), University of Glasgow.
April 2021 - September 2021: Research Techinican, Institue of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh.
July 2019 - June 2020: Research Assistant, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh.
September 2015 - May 2019: BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences (Genetics), University of Edinburgh.