Expertise

I graduated in 2009 from the University of Liverpool and joined the SAMS team in 2010 working on the Carbon Trust funded Control of Grazers project looking into the predation effect of ciliates in microalgae cultures.

I have since contributed to a number of algal biotechnological projects including the European Biomara project and the Seabiotech Bio-prospecting project.

I became a curator in CCAP in 2013 and look after a number of different algal groups.

Recent publication

Gonzalez CR, Grigg V, Thomas N, Thomson AI, MacPherson E, Dillon L, Gober E, Smith AG, Cockell C, Convery P, Davey MP (2026) Antarctic snow algal response to temperature - potential implications of climate change. Sustainable Microbiology, 3, (2), qvag023.  https://doi.org/10.1093/sumbio/qvag023