User:Daniel Jeffares

Daniel studied plant developmetal biology at Massey University New Zealand for his PhD with Bruce Veit. During his PhD he also wrote papers on the origin and early evolution of life with Anthony Poole and David Penny. He then went to The University of Copenhagen to research RNA evolution, introns and transposons. This was followed by five years at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute workng with Manolis Dermitzakis on the evolution of Plasmodium parasite genomes. He now works in th Bahler lab at UCL on the evolution of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.