Biography
My academic career in biology started with a BA degree in zoology at the University of Oxford and PhD in microbiology at the University of Aberdeen in the UK. I have held academic positions at the University of York (UK) and Cornell University (USA), where I now have emerita status.
My graduate studies on the algal symbiosis in the flatworm Convoluta roscoffensis were supervised by Professor Graham Gooday; and my postdoctoral research focused on the green hydra symbiosis, with Sir David C. Smith at the University of Oxford, and the aphid-bacterial symbiosis with Professor Tony Dixon at the University of East Anglia. I was then awarded a 10-year Royal Society Research Fellowship.
I became a tenured member of faculty: first at the University of York (UK) with promotion to a Personal Professorial Chair; then as Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Insect Physiology and Toxicology at Cornell University.
You are welcome to contact me at aes326(at)cornell.edu
