Lab picture outside Comstock Hall on 16 February 2010. Left to right: Eric, John, Rodrigo, Calum, Sophie, Stephanie; and in front: Adam, Angela and Emma
The METNET consortium relaxes at Goudi's Sagrada Familia after the Aphid Genomics meeting in Barcelona in June 2009. Left to right: Stefano Collela, Hubert Charles, Peter Ashton, Angela, Sandy MacDonald, and behind Gavin Thomas and Augusto Vellozo.
Lab Lunch at College Town Bagels on 1st May
First day in the new lab, 28 January 2009
Aphid Day on 14th November 2008
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Publication: A water channel with osmoregulatory role in the pea aphid gut
January 19th, 2009
Shakesby AJ, Wallace IS, Isaacs HV, Pritchard J, Roberts DM and Douglas AE, 2009. A water-specific aquaporin involved in aphid osmoregulation. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 39, 1-10.
Ally Shakesby and Angela collaborated with Dr Dan Roberts and Ian Wallace (Knoxville, Tennessee), Dr Jeremy Pritchard (Birmingham, UK) and Dr Harv Isaacs (York, UK) to study the gut aquaporin in the pea aphid. We established that the aquaporin gene ApAqp1 is the ortholog of the gene drip (CG9023) expressed in the Malpighian tubules of Drosophila. The aphid gene is expressed in the stomach and distal intestine; and our RNAi studies suggest a role of the aphid gut aquaporin in water cycling.
