Dr Alice Baynes
Divisional Lead / Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences
- Environmental Sciences
Topics
- Aquatic pollution
- Investigations into the impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals on aquatic organisms
- Comparative endocrinology
- Developmental mechanisms in molluscs
Research supervision
Doctoral research
First supervisor
Eghosa Maurice Imiuwa (2021- Nigerian TETfund) 'Impacts of anti-depressant drugs on Biomphalaria glabrata'
Konstantinos Panagiotidis (2020- NERC London DTP): ‘Effects of environmental pollution on Molluscan endocrinology’
Dr. Georgina Fauconier (nee Collins) (2019-2022 NERC London DTP): ‘A ‘new’ microsporidian in the UK: Investigations into a formerly unknown microsporidian infecting juvenile European Smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) from the River Thames’. Awarded.
Dr. Nicola Beresford (Part-time 2013-2021): ‘oestrogens and anti-androgens in the aquatic environment and their effects on fish’. Awarded.
Second supervisor
Wendy Areiza (2023- NERC London DTP) ‘Determination of lipid dysregulation by per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances in aquatic macroinvertebrates’.
Dr. Christopher Green (2011-2014 Defra) ‘Assessing the roles of anti-androgenic and oestrogenic mixtures on endocrine disruption in fish’. Awarded.
PhD External Co-supervisor
Lucy Wright (2024- NERC QUADRAT) ‘Neuroendocrine disruption in marine shellfish: uncovering cellular and developmental mechanisms of action using a sentinel bioindicator species’ – First supervisor Dr Victoria Slight University of Aberdeen.
Saltana Parvin (2023- DFG Germany) ‘Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms that generate a remarkable open coil “banana” shell phenotype in Lymnaea stagnalis’ - First supervisor Prof Dan Jackson, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany.
PhD Research Development Advisor (Ã÷ÐÇ°ËØÔ)
Ushemegbe Rita Ekhareafo (2022- NERC London DTP) ‘Environmental Assessment of Chemical Contamination from Abandoned Coal and Mineral Mines: A multidisciplinary approach’ Supervised by Prof Rakesh Kanda (Ã÷ÐÇ°ËØÔ) and Dr Olwenn Martin (UCL)
Marta Straszkiewicz (2020- Ã÷ÐÇ°ËØÔ staff member - part-time) ‘Occurrence and Fate of Household chemicals in domestic wastewater’. Supervised by Prof Rakesh Kanda and Dr Tom Miller.