Andrew Cridge
Research Fellow
Department of Biochemistry
University of Otago
New Zealand
Biography
Dr. Andrew Cridge is a Research Fellow in Department of Biochemistry at University of Otago School of Biomedical Sciences, New Zealand. His Qualification includes: BSc(Hons), PhD. Dr. Andrew Cridge is a Research Fellow in Department of Biochemistry at University of Otago School of Biomedical Sciences, New Zealand. His Qualification includes: BSc(Hons), PhD. His research focuses on environmental physiology, specifically how insects adapt to changes in their environment and coordinate that at a molecular level during embryonic development. Aligned to this he is also interested in how epigenetics can control gene expression through regulating transcription and translation in response to external environmental signals, especially during development. The aim of his research is to develop an understanding of the cellular response to environmental cues and how that affects normal development. He has an additional interest in global change biology and is involved in a longitudinal study to assess the impact of land use on bacterial fauna by determining the loss of biodiversity in bacterial species using metagenomics. He is the author of many articles published in several reputed journals.
Research Interest
Dr. Andrew Cridge's research focuses on environmental physiology, specifically how insects adapt to changes in their environment and coordinate that at a molecular level during embryonic development. Aligned to this he is also interested in how epigenetics can control gene expression through regulating transcription and translation in response to external environmental signals, especially during development. The aim of his research is to develop an understanding of the cellular response to environmental cues and how that affects normal development. He has an additional interest in global change biology and is involved in a longitudinal study to assess the impact of land use on bacterial fauna by determining the loss of biodiversity in bacterial species using metagenomics. Research Interests: Evolution of insect development Transcription and translation control in growth and differentiation Genome structure organization and its role in gene expression The impact of land use on bacterial biodiversity
Publications
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Cridge AG, Dearden PK, Brownfield LR. Convergent occurrence of the developmental hourglass in plant and animal embryogenesis?. Annals of botany. 2016 Mar 24;117(5):833-43.
