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Dr. Reuben Nowell is a Lecturer in Animal Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Stirling, where he joined in early 2024 after completing postdoctoral positions at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford.
His research focuses on evolutionary biology, specifically examining the interaction between genome structure and evolutionary processes such as adaptation, diversification, and speciation in non-model eukaryotes. Dr. Nowell combines whole-genome sequence data with population genomic and comparative phylogenetic methods to investigate these complex biological phenomena.
His primary research interests include:
- Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics
- Horizontal Gene Transfer mechanisms
- Adaptation and Speciation processes
- Phylogenetic analysis methods
- Genomic peculiarities of non-model organisms, particularly bdelloid rotifers
Dr. Nowell has a strong educational background, having earned a BSc (Hons) in Evolutionary Biology (2008), MSc in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis (2010), and PhD (2015), all from the University of Edinburgh. His research has resulted in 19 publications focusing on understanding how genomic mechanisms contribute to evolutionary processes, with particular attention to enigmatic organisms like bdelloid rotifers that challenge conventional evolutionary paradigms.
