Final year PhD student at UEA - I use dietary manipulations in fruit flies to explore sex differences in ageing, parental effects, and responses to heat shock.
Interested in postdocs for autumn 2026!
Oonagh Barker
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Shared some findings from recent work at UEA CEEC today! Great to see what other researchers from BIO and ENV have been working on.
Oonagh Barker
Parental age at reproduction accelerates offspring pace of life in Gryllus bimaculatus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.14.718189v1
Thanks @amandabretman.bsky.social !
Oonagh Barker
Excellent paper with very clear and important results - selection on relative egg size (maternal investement) reduces lifespan and accelerates ageing in females.
bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
Ironically, @universitypress.cambridge.org has long recommended a book known as “Butcher’s” as a guide to CUP house style! Here’s a screenshot of the author's LinkedIn post taken by an understandably disgruntled copyeditor:
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I know it can upset a lot of people to think of the downsides of owning outdoor #cats, but I really appreciate a museum display showing just how many wild birds domestic cats kill (although this display in #Hamburg focuses on data from Australia, USA and New Zealand rather than Germany or Europe)
@ewanharney.bsky.social & @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social show evidence of transgenerational developmental plasticity as a result of heat shock in fruit flies, documenting gene expression and phenotype changes 3+ generations following heat shock.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag069
#evobio #molbio
In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.
Learn more on #NationalWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4mM2aS9
New in Nature: We mapped the genetics of aging across the entire lifespan of 6,438 mice. 59 loci, modulate the genetics of *when* you die, not just whether a gene associates with lifespan.
#Longevity #Aging #Genetics #Healthspan
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
