Ted Morrow

Evolutionary Genetics of Sexual Conflict

I am en evolutionary biologist with a particular interest in sexual conflict - it's causes and consequences. My research group has been trying to get a more detailed understanding of sexual conflict at the level of individual genetic loci. Some of the question we are looking at currently are: Which genes are affected by sexually antagonistic selection? What biological processes are those genes involved in? Do sexually antagonistic genes cause disease in humans?

With collaborators, we are currently using two systems to try to answer these questions. In the lab we work with the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, for which there is such a wealth of genetic tools and knowledge. We are also using data from humans.

Funding for this research has come in the past from The Royal Society (UK), The European Research Council, and most recently the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsådet).

I am course leader for:

BIGC14 - Livets utveckling och mångfald (Evolution and biodiversity of life)

Some past and present collaborations:

Jon Harper (University of Sussex, UK)

Max Reuter (UCL, UK)

Tim Janicke (CNRS Montpellier, France)

Jessica Abbott (Lund, Sweden)

Filip Ruzicka (Monash University, Australia)

Klaus Reinhardt (Technical University Dresden, Germany)

Damian Dowling (Monash University, Australia)

PhD supervisor:

Matthew Gage (University of East Anglia, UK)

Postdoctoral advisers:

Göran Arnqvist (Uppsala University, Sweden)

William R Rice (UCSB, USA)