Christopher Laumer
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Full Name:
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Dr. Christopher Laumer |
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Profile Display Name:
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Christopher Laumer |
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E-mail Address:
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christopher.laumer1@nhm.ac.uk |
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Life Sciences Department |
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Job Title:
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Royal Society University Research Fellow |
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Bio:
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Chris Laumer is an invertebrate zoologist, phylogeneticist, genome biologist, and lab-tinkerer with an uncommon enthusiasm for flatworms and other things small, squishy, and seldom-seen that live in sand and soil. Originally hailing from America, he did a PhD at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, and postdocs at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge. In 2021 he joined the Natural History Museum as a Research Fellow. |
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Research Interests:
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Meiofauna biodiversity, ecology, evolution, and comparative genomics. Flatworm biology. Deep animal phylogenetics. Museum genomics. Wet-lab ‘omics method development. Microscopy. |
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Christopher Laumer currently has the following exemplar projects advertised:
- Comparative genomics of Gnathifera, an enigmatic clade of spiralian worms with significance to early animal evolution (Evolution & Adaptation)
- Accessing nuclear genome data from invertebrate natural history collections, with applications in deep metazoan phylogenetics and comparative genomics (Biodiversity, Ecology & Conservation)
Christopher Laumer does not currently supervise any London NERC DTP PhD students
