Dr Luke Dunning
School of Biosciences
Senior Research Fellow


- Profile
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- NERC Independent Research Fellow, University of 葫芦影业, UK (2020鈥抪resent)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of 葫芦影业, UK (2015鈥2020)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Imperial College London, UK (2013鈥2014)
- PhD, University of Auckland, NZ (2014)
- MRes in Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK (2008)
- BSc in Ecology and Environmental Management, Cardiff University, UK (2007)
- Research interests
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I am an evolutionary biologist interested in understanding how organisms adapt to novel environments by combining cutting-edge genomic techniques, ecological analyses and experimental approaches. A majority of my research is currently focused on rapid adaptation in the grass family, the most economically and ecologically important group of plants.
My research has three main themes:
- The evolutionary consequences of lateral gene transfer in grasses.
- Pan-genome variation and local adaptation in grasses.
- The impact of extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) on grass evolution.
- Publications
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- Research group
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Postdoctoral Research Associates:
- Dr Lara Pereira
- Dr William Brightly (NSF fellow - Co-supervised)
Technicians:- Dr Emily Bailes
PhD Students:- Ahmed Alenazi
- Catherine Collins
- George Hirons-Alecrim
- Noah Bourne
- Abdullah Alshehri
- Kanyanat Kasetsuntorn (Co-supervised)
- Violette Petter (Co-supervised)
Masters Students:
- Emily Baker (MBiolSci)
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