About

I am a technician providing support to academics and students in the College of Life and Natural Sciences, predominantly in the disciplines of bioscience and molecular biology.

Research interests

• Retrotransposons and their role in mammalian gene function and evolution.
• Molecular exaptation of mammalian-wide interspersed repeats (MIRs).
• Differential splicing of tissue transglutaminase (TG2) in human disease.

Qualifications

• PhD Molecular Biology – Nottingham Trent University 
• PGCE – University of Nottingham 
• BSc (Hons) Biology – University of Derby 

Recent publications

Phatak, V.M., Croft, S.M., Rameshaiah Setty, S.G., Scarpellini, A., Hughes, D.C., Rees, R., McArdle, S., Verderio, E.A. (2013) Expression of transglutaminase-2 isoforms in normal human tissues and cancer cell lines: dysregulation of alternative splicing in cancer. Amino Acids. 2013 Jan;44(1):33-44.