Taylor lab - Quick CV

Employment and Education

January 2013-present. Senior Lecturer. School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia.
August 2011-December 2012. Senior Lecturer. School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University.
Sept 2010-August 2011. Lecturer. School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University.
Sept. 2005-Sept. 2010: RC-UK Research Fellow in Fisheries Genetics and Conservation. Bangor University, Bangor.
March 2004-Sept 2005: Group leader/Teaching Fellow. University of East Anglia.
October 2000 – March 2004: Postdoctoral researcher. University of East Anglia.
March 2000-October 2000: Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium (based at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels).
March 1999 – March 2000: Postdoctoral research assistant. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.
1993 - 1996: University of Aberdeen / Southampton - PhD research student investigating speciation mechanisms, sexual selection and taxonomy in African cichlid fishes.
1990-1993: University of Leeds. BSc (hons) Animal and Plant Biology – 2i

Recent Grants

Brazilian Science Without Borders "Special Visiting Researcher Grant". 2012-2015.
AquaTrace EU FP7 The development of tools for tracing and evaluating the genetic impact of fish from aquaculture: "AquaTrace" 2012-2016.
Aquagen. Genetic Assignment of Farmed Cod and Sole for Traceability, Biosafety and Environmental Impact Assessment. EU funded. 2010-2012.
Santander Travel Grant. Brazil. 2010
Royal Society International Travel Grant: Travel for Collaboration. Malaysia. 2010
2009-2010
Interreg. Celtic Sea Trout Project. 2009-2013;
FishPopTrace. Population structure and traceability of marine fishes. EU funded.
Fisheries Society of the British Isles. 2008-2010. P.I. Taylor, M. I. Investigating predation on settling flatfish using molecular probes;
NERC Stable Isotope Facility access grant. 2008-2010. P.I. Taylor M. I;
NERC Sustainable Marine Bioresources. 2008-2011. Population structure of cod around the UK: scale, mechanisms and dynamics. Carvalho, G & Taylor, M. I;
Mersnip. SNP development in the European hake - EU funded tender. 2009-2010.
EU Framework 7. 2008-2011. FishPopTrace. Carvalho, G & Taylor, M. I. Co-investigator in leading organization;
DEFRA-March 2006-December 2006. Carvalho, G. & Taylor, M. I. Population structure of cod (Gadus morhua) in UK waters;
DEFRA-September 2005-March 2009. PI Taylor, M. I. PREDATE - Detecting predation of fish eggs and larvae. Subcontract with CEFAS Lowestoft;
NERC. March 2005-March 2006. Taylor, M. I. & Emerson, B. Investigating the importance of hybridisation and genome duplication in the evolution of the South American catfish genus Corydoras;
National Board of Fisheries, Sweden. December 2004-June 2005. Taylor, M. I. Genetic analysis of 'cod-like' eggs from Swedish North Sea;
DEFRA - April 2004-April 2006. Taylor, M. I. & Emerson, B. 'Genetic analysis of gadoid eggs from North Sea Ichthyoplankton surveys'. Collaborative project with CEFAS Lowestoft;
DEFRA – Jan 2003 - May 2004. Taylor, M. I. & Emerson, B. - 'A field trial of genetic probes for the identification of gadoid eggs'. Collaborative project with CEFAS Lowestoft.

Honorary positions

Honorary Research Associate of the Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory, Bangor University 2012-2015.

Journal work

Associate Editor for Marine Biology
Associate Editor for Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics