Current Post: ELSA Reader
Room Number: 01.06
Telephone: 01603 592921 (+44 1603 592921)
Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)
Email: c.van-oosterhout@uea.ac.uk
Publications: EPrints Digital Repository
Posts of Special Responsibility:
- Deputy Senior Advisor
Research Interests
- Adaptive evolution and population genetics of the vertebrate immune genes, the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC). The guppy (Poecilia reticulata), mbuna cichlids, and more recently birds, are the model organisms to investigate how the diversity at the MHC genes is generated and maintained in wild populations.
- Host-parasite coevolution and design of individual based models to investigate the evolution of virulence and transmission biology (see e.g. http://www.hull.ac.uk/gyro-scope/). Recent interests include the genome evolution with focus on effector genes in plant-pathogen interactions.
- Speciation and adaptive radiation using Lake Malawi cichlids as a model, focusing on the roles of the MHC, host-parasite coevolution and transgressive segregation in rapid diversification.
- Conservation genetics of vertebrates, using guppies and cichlid fishes as models.
- Development of population genetic tools for microsatellite analysis, and founder of the software application Micro-Checker (http://www.microchecker.hull.ac.uk/)
Biography
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Significant Publications
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Page last updated 9 December 2011
