Matthew Collins
 Matthew Collins is a reader in Biomolecular Archaeology and head of BioArch.
Research Interests: Fundamental studies of early diagenesis, using a combination of laboratory experiments (Geology, 2000, 28, 1139), kinetic modelling (Nature, 2001) and computational chemistry
(Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc, Lond, 1999, 354, p.51) and mass spectrometry (Geology, 2002). He is a member of the UK (NERC) Earth Sciences Peer Review College, the Treibs Committee of the Geochemical
Society, and an Honorary Professor at the China University of Geosciences. Research group: 3 post-docs, 3 PhD students, 8 students successfully supervised. Publications: 58 research articles in
refereed journals, 3 book chapters and invited reviews.
|
|
Beth Shapiro
 Beth Shapiro is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at Oxford University,
where she is a member both of the Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules
Centre, and of the Laboratory for Viral Evolution. Her research
interests include both experimental and computational approaches to
investigating evolutionary processes using non-contemporaneous DNA
sequences. Recent projects involving ancient DNA from mammalian remains
have included the identification of taxonomic relationships between
extinct and extant species (Science 2002; PLOS 2005) and investigation
into how populations change through time in response to a changing
environment (Science 2002, 2004; MBE 2005). Other interests include the
evolution of RNA viruses, which, because of their fast rate of
mutation, are an ideal resource for investigating how populations (and
genes and genomes) evolve through time. Beth has been an invited
speaker at several international conferences, has been awarded 3
research grants in 2 years, has 14 publications in peer-reviewed
journals, and is currently supervising 3 students.
Alan Cooper, the original Oxford co-ordiator has left to head the Fragmentary DNA Research Centre at the Univeristy of Adelaid
|
Dan Bradley
 Dan Bradley is a lecturer and Fellow in the Department of Genetics, Trinity College
Dublin. He has active research in: ancient DNA (2001, Nature); genetic diversity within and between genomes (2002, Science); Y-chromosome diversity and Irish human origins (Nature 2000); origins of
livestock as discerned using genetic diversity (Nature Genetics, 2003; Nature Reviews Genetics, 2003; PNAS, 2001); development of detection methods for the presence of animal material in livestock
feedstuffs; exami-nation of selection around genes affected by the domestication process in livestock. Member of a Well-come Trust Panel in Bioarchaeology, jury for the European Young Scientists
Competition; Research Group: 3 post-docs, 4 PhD students. 8 students successfully supervised. Total of 70 publications (48 in international scientific journals); primary or principal/corresponding
author of 42 of these; elicited ~1000 citations in total.
|
Eske Willerslev
 Eske Willerselv
is a full professor in ancient DNA at the Niels Bohr
Institute University of Copenhagen and a visiting professor at
University of Oxford.
Eske Willerselv is an internationally recognised researcher in the fields of ancient
DNA, DNA degradation, and evolutionary biology. He has 5 publications
in Science and Nature, and a total of 30 publications in high profile
peer review journals such as The Lancet; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
(PNAS); Curr. Biol.; Am. J. Hum. Gen.; Mol. Biol. Evol. (MBE); TRENDS
in Ecol. Evol. (TREE); TRENDS Microbiol. (TIM); PloS Biology, and Proc.
R. Soc. Lon. B. His research interests include: palaeoecology (e.g.
Science, 2003; Science, 2004), palaeontology (e.g. Nature, 2003, PloS
Biology, 2005), archaeology (e.g. Science, 2001; Am. J. Hum. Gen.
2003a), domestication (Science, 2005), ancient microbial biology (e.g.
PNAS, 1999; Curr. Biol. 2004; TREE, 2004; TIM, 2005), DNA degradation
and repair (e.g. MBE, 2001a; Am. J. Hum. Gen. 2003b,c), exobiology
(e.g. Lancet, 2003), phylogenetics (e.g. Curr. Biol. 2004), and
molecular evolution (e.g. MBE, 2001b). EW has served as a reviewer for
various granting agencies and journals including the NSF (US), Am. J.
Hum. Gen. and TREE. EW is an invited member of the International Mars
Cyroscout drilling team (NASA), and scientific organizer for the 3rd
Mars Polar Conference (NASA). He has been an invited keynote speaker at
15 international conferences and meetings, has obtained 13 large grants
and prizes in Denmark, UK, Australia, and the EU, and has been key
supervisor for 7 MSc and PhD students in Copenhagen and Oxford. EW has
strong collaborations with world leading scientists in Europe, USA,
Canada, and Russia, and has headed and participated in 10 international
polar expeditions. He has communicated his work to the public through
documentary films, books, popular articles, museum exhibitions and
numerous national and international TV, newspaper, and magazine
interviews.
/p>
|
