Professor Philip C J Donoghue

B.Sc.(Leic.), M.Sc. (Sheff.), Ph.D.(Leic.)

  • BS8 1TQ

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Research interests

My research is focused on the relationship between evolution and embryology, integrating living and fossil organisms, developmental biology, and knowledge of their evolutionary relationships, to provide an holistic understanding of major episodes in evolutionary history.

I have particular interest in the evolutionary emergence of vertebrates, and of ecdysozoans, but also in the evolutionary emergence of animals and plants more generally. This entails classical palaeobiology, but also molecular genetics – to calibrate the Tree of Life to time using molecular clock theory, and to determine the role of genetic regulators of development in effecting organismal-level evolutionary change.

My group has facilities for rock digestion, high-end computed tomography, animal culture facilities and a molecular laboratory for RNA and DNA library preparation, gene cloning, and in situ hybridisation.

External positions

President, Palaeontological Association

1 Jan 202531 Dec 2026

REF2029 UoA7: Earth and Environmental Sciences Sub-panel member,

Dec 2024 → …

REF2021 UoA7: Earth and Environmental Sciences Sub-panel member, People, Culture and Environment pilot, Higher Education Funding Council for England

20182022

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