Dr Ellie Harrison
School of Biosciences
Lecturer
- Profile
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- Independent P3 Research Fellow at the University of 91Ö±²¥, UK (2017‒present)
- ERC Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the ‘Coevolution of bacteria and conjugative plasmids’ at the University of York, UK (2012–2017)
- NERC Postdoctoral Research Assistant on ‘Host-symbiont coevolution: exploring the parasitism-mutualism continuum’ in the Institute for Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool, UK (2010–2012)
- PhD ‘Evolution of a Selfish Genetic Element: The 2 Micron Plasmid of Saccharomyces spp.’ at the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College, London, UK (2006–2010)
- Research interests
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I am interested in the ecology and evolution of microbial communities, particularly in the interactions between bacteria and the mobile genetic elements that infect them. Elements such as plasmids and phages play key roles in these communities; acting not only as agents of horizontal gene transfer by carrying with them bacterial genes when they move between hosts, but also as parasites as they exploit their bacterial hosts for their own replication.
In my work I explore how coevolution shapes these interactions and how they, in turn, impact the wider community.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . PLOS Biology, 22(12), e3002926-e3002926.
- . Frontiers in Agronomy, 5.
- . FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 99(4).
- . PLoS Biology, 21(2).
- . PLoS Biology, 20(11), e3001847-e3001847.
- . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1842).
- . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1842).
- . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1842).
- . Trends in Microbiology.
- . Frontiers in Microbiology, 12(11).
- . PLoS Biology, 19(10).
- . Microbiology, 167(9).
- . Environmental Microbiology.
- . mBio, 12(3).
- . Microbiology, 167(4).
- . Frontiers in Microbiology, 11.
- . Current Biology, 29(20), R1094-R1103.
- . Microbiology.
- . Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(4), 515-517.
- . mSystems, 4(1).
- . Evolution Letters, 2(6), 580-589.
- . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 285.
- . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences.
- . Fems Microbiology Ecology, 94(1).
- . Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 372(1735).
- . BioEssays, 39(12).
- . Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1, 1348-1353.
- . Plasmid, 91, 90-95.
- . Molecular Ecology, 26(10), 2757-2764.
- . ISME Journal.
- . Nature Microbiology.
- . BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16(1), 227-227.
- . BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16(1).
- . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(29), 8260-8265.
- . Mobile Genetic Elements, 6(3).
- . Environmental Microbiology, 17(12), 5008-5022.
- . Current Biology, 25(15), 2034-2039.
- . Evolutionary Applications, 8(4), 346-351.
- . Biology Letters, 11(8), 20150361-20150361.
- . Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27(8), 1757-1763.
- . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1764).
- . Current Opinion in Virology, 3(5), 572-577.
- . Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25(11), 2348-2356.
- . Trends in Microbiology, 20(6), 262-267.
- . PLOS Biology, 22(2), e3002531-e3002531.
- . mBio, 6(3).
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