Dr Ross Waller
Meeting Coordinator
Professor of Evolutionary Cell Biology
Department of Biochemistry,
University of Cambridge
Ross Waller’s group takes an evolutionary cell biology approach to studying the processes that have created eukaryotic diversity, the breadth of mechanisms for common cell functions, and the adaptations that promote changes of lifestyle such as to autotrophy, parasitism and mutualistic symbiosis. We use model microbial eukaryotic groups, protists, and in particular the related but very diverse apicomplexans and dinoflagellates, and combine systems biology approaches with experimental cell biology to capture and examine divergent biology. Our work focuses on questions of genome biology, organelle genesis and evolution, and the interactions of host organisms with their symbionts, be them mutualists or parasites.