Researchers

The users of the aquatics facilities come from a multidisciplinary background, with varied research interest.

Below is a list of the group leaders who utilise the aquarium in their research:

professor Paul Alewood

- Design and discovery of bioactive peptides and proteins in venomous animals

 

- Transcriptional regulation of blood and lymphatic vessels

 

- Understanding the evolution of venom systems

 

-  Discovering how brains process information

 

- Vascular biology and development

 

 - Bugs and drugs

 

- Pharmacology of marine toxins

 

- Understanding the processes generating and eliminating genetic variation

 

- Psychiatric Genomics

 

- Role of the cell surface in health and disease

 

- Neural Circuits and Behaviour

 

- Oncology and carcinogenesis, genetics

 

- Genetics and cell biology of cardiac development