Kafatos:Waterhouse, Robert
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Rob Waterhouse Division of Cell & Molecular Biology robert.waterhouse04[at]imperial.ac.uk
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I am a third year PhD student in the Kafatos/Christophides Lab at Imperial College, London.
Research Interests
- Insect Innate Immunity
- Genomic Evolution
Education
- 1998-1999: International Baccalaureate, Waterford KaMhlaba, United World College of Southern Africa, Swaziland.
- 2000-2004: Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (MBioc), New College, Oxford.
- 2004-2005: Masters in Bioinformatics, Imperial College, London.
- 2005-present: Wellcome Trust PhD with the Immunogenomics Lab, Imperial College, London.
Publications
Authored:
Evolutionary dynamics of immune-related genes and pathways in disease-vector mosquitoes
Science, 2007, PMID:17588928
The Aedes aegypti genome: a comparative perspective
Insect Mol Biol, 2008, PMID:18237279
The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum
Nature, 2008, PMID:18362917
Assisted:
Quantification of insect genome divergence
Trends Genet, 2007, PMID:17097187
Quantification of ortholog losses in insects and vertebrates
Genome Biol, 2007, PMID:18021399
OrthoDB: the hierarchical catalog of eukaryotic orthologs
Nucleic Acids Res, 2008, PMID:17947323
More
Visit my webpage to find out more about my research.
Visit our SCITIZEN article - bringing Science to the People!
Read our Imperial College news item - Revealed: mosquito genes that could be controlling the spread of killer viruses!
