Senior lecturer Dr Michelle Taylor’s research focuses on how well-connected populations in the deep sea are genetically across depth, areas, and time – looking at their evolutionary relationships, their community structures, and what drives where they thrive. She runs a lab group at the University of Essex that has a focus on marine population genomics, video surveying for community analyses, and habitat suitability modelling. Her favorite taxa are corals, and she has described and discovered many of them globally on the dozen expeditions she has partaken in and led. Her PhD was undertaken on Antarctic deep-sea coral and she is looking forward to seeing new areas of the Antarctic afresh on this expedition.
Dr Taylor has worked at the universities of Imperial College, Oxford and Essex primarily but has grants and projects with several international academic institutions and is President of the Deep-sea Biology Society.
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