Alastair Grant
Professor of Ecology
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
United Kingdom
Biography
He graduated in Marine Biology from University of Wales, Swansea, and then completed a PhD on the life histories of marine invertebrates under the supervision of Paul Tyler.He moved to a NERC postdoctoral fellowship at Newcastle University's marine laboratory, then after further postdoctoral posts at Durham and Hull, moved to UEA in 1989. He is currently an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Science, responsible for Postgraduate Research Students. While at UEA, have (at various times) been Director of Finance, Director of Enterprise and Deputy Head of the School of Environmental Sciences, and Director of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation
Research Interest
Ecological effects of marine pollution and the use of pollution tolerant populations and communities to extend our understanding of this; ecotoxicology; links between biomarkers and ecological effects; life history biology and population dynamics, particularly elasticity analysis; ecological development of managed retreat sites and created salt marshes.
Publications
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Tkacz, A., Cheema, J., Chandra, G., Grant, A., Poole, P. S. (2015) Stability and succession of the rhizosphere microbiota depends upon plant type and soil composition, in The ISME Journal 9 (11) pp. 2349-2359 Full Text UEA Repository (Article) (Published)
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Box, M., Huang, B., Domijan, M., Jaeger, K., Khattak, A., Yoo, S., Sedivy, E., Jones, D., Hearn, T., Webb, A., Grant, A., Locke, J., Wigge, P. (2015) ELF3 controls thermoresponsive growth in Arabidopsis, in Current Biology 25 (2) pp. 194-199 Full Text UEA Repository (Article) (Published)
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Jung, J., Domijan, M., Klose, C., Biswas, S., Ezer, D., Gao, M., Khattak, A. K., Box, M. S., Charoensawan, V., Cortijo, S., Kumar, M., Grant, A., Locke, J. C. W., Schäfer, E., Jaeger, K. E., Wigge, P. A. (2016) Phytochromes function as thermosensors in Arabidopsis, in Science 354 (6314) pp. 886-889 Full Text UEA Repository (Article) (Published)
