Berta Verd

Berta Verd is the Peter Brunet Fellow in Biological Sciences at Jesus College, University of Oxford. She holds a BSc in Mathematics from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, followed by an MSc in Medicine, Science and Society from King’s College London, an MRes in Systems and Synthetic Biology from Imperial College London, and a PhD in Biomedicine from Pompeu Fabra University. Her research focuses on evolutionary developmental biology, applying dynamical systems theory to biological problems such as embryonic axial elongation, segmentation, and cichlid fish evolution. She teaches Biology courses at Jesus College and actively contributes to interdisciplinary research in developmental dynamics.

Her work explores the modularity of segmentation clocks, the role of cell movements in pattern formation, and evolutionary processes in African cichlids. Recent studies include analyses of skeletal diversity in Lake Malawi cichlids using micro-CT imaging and computational modeling of gene regulatory networks. She also investigates critical transitions in developmental systems and the interplay between morphogen gradients and positional information.

Advising and grants: No student advisees or grant details are explicitly listed in the provided texts. Her research is supported through her fellowship and institutional affiliations. She is associated with labs focused on systems biology and evolutionary developmental biology at the University of Oxford and collaborating institutions.

Labs/Teams: While specific lab names are not mentioned, her research aligns with interdisciplinary teams studying developmental dynamics, evolutionary biology, and systems approaches in the Biological Sciences department at Oxford.