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Alistair Peter McGregor

Curriculum Vitae

 

Personal information

  • Data and place of birth: 5th March 1976, Broxburn, Scotland, UK.
  • Citizenship: British.

 

Employment

  • June 2008 - present.  Group Leader. Institut für Populationsgenetik, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Josef Baumann Gasse 1, 1210, Vienna, Austria.
  • June 2006 - June 2008.  Post-doctoral Fellow. Laboratory of Dr. Wim Damen.  Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
  • April 2002 - May 2006.  Post-doctoral Research Associate. Laboratory of Professor David Stern, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA.

 

Education

  • Ph. D.
    1998-2002. Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
    Supervised by Professor G. A. Dover.
    Thesis title: "The evolution of Bicoid regulated genes in insects".
  • B. Sc. (Honours in Genetics)
    1994-1998. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
 

Awards and Funding

  • January 2010 - December 2014.  European Research Council Starting Independent Investigator Grant.
  • June 2008 - present.  Lise Meitner Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
  • June 2006 - June 2008.  Fellowship from Marie Curie Research Training Network Zoonet.
  • October 1998 - September 2001. Natural Environment Research Council PhD studentship.
 

Selected Oral Presentations

  • “The evolution of the Wnt genes from the perspective of a spider”. University of Vienna, November 2009.
  • “Investigating the genetic basis of morphological variation within and between Drosophila species”. Department of Biology, University of Munich, July 2009.
  • “Genetic analysis of morphological differences between Drosophila species”. University of Leicester, January 2009.
  • “Multiple cis-regulatory changes in a single gene underlie evolution of trichome patterns between Drosophila species”.  2nd Meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Ghent, Belgium, July 2008.
  • “Regulation of spider segmentation by Wnt8” Joint Zoonet/Molmorph RTN conference, Barcelona, Spain, November 2007.
  • “Morphological evolution through multiple mutations at a single gene”.  ESF Exploratory Workshop on Understanding the Functional Consequences of Natural Variation in Ecological Adaptation. Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
  • “Macroevolution through micromutations at a single gene”. 1st and founding meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Prague, Czech Republic, August 2006.
  • “Evolution of shaven-baby/ovo underlies morphological divergence between Drosophila species”. 45th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Washington DC, USA, March 2004.
  • “Co-evolution of Bicoid and Bicoid regulated genes”. 2nd Workshop in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Cambridge, UK, September 2001
 

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