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Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- thomas.hiscock@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 437331
- Office Address
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Institute of Medical Sciences
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
Foresterhill Health Campus
ABERDEEN, AB25 2ZD, Scotland, UK- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
I originally trained as a theoretical physicist at the University of Cambridge (B.A.,M.Sci), before setting off across the Atlantic to do my Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School. In Sean Megason's lab, I fell in love with embryos, and spent the best part of six years watching them develop under a microscope. In my postdoc, supervised by John Marioni and Ben Simons at the University of Cambridge, I worked on several projects combining my training in physics with my love for developmental biology. In Summer 2020, I started as a Lecturer in Systems Biology at the IMS.
- Research
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Research Overview
I use mathematical models, computational data analysis and close collaborations with experimentalists to understand development - the remarkable processes that allow single-cell embryos to develop into complex, functional and diverse adult forms. Please see my personal website for more details: https://twhiscock.github.io/
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Maths, Biomedical Sciences, Physics.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Maths
Accepting PhDsBiomedical Sciences
Accepting PhDsPhysics
Accepting PhDsResearch Specialisms
- Mathematical Modelling
- Developmental Biology
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Teaching
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- Publications
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Self-organized BMP signaling dynamics underlie the development and evolution of digit segmentation patterns in birds and mammals
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 121, no. 2, 2304470121Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSecreted inhibitors drive the loss of regeneration competence in Xenopus limbs
Development, vol. 148, no. 11, dev199158.Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA dot-stripe Turing model of joint patterning in the tetrapod limb
Development, vol. 147, no. 8, dev183699Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.183699
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14149/1/Scoones_etal_DB_A_Dot_Stripe_VOR.pdf
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The myeloid lineage is required for the emergence of a regeneration-permissive environment following Xenopus tail amputation
Development, vol. 147, no. 3, 185496Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.185496
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14147/1/Aztekin_DB_The_myeloid_lineage_VOR.pdf
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Navigating at night: fundamental limits on the sensitivity of radical pair magnetoreception under dim light
Quarterly reviews of biophysics, vol. 52, e9Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033583519000076
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- [ONLINE] Oxford University Research Archive
Identification of a regeneration-organizing cell in the Xenopus tail
Science, vol. 364, no. 6441, pp. 653-658Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6441/653/suppl/DC1
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav9996
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Adapting machine-learning algorithms to design gene circuits
BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 20, 214Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA single-cell molecular map of mouse gastrulation and early organogenesis
Nature, vol. 566, pp. 490-495Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0933-9
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- [ONLINE] Springer Sharedit link to published PDF
Identity and novelty in the avian syrinx
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 115, no. 41, pp. 10209-10217Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804586115
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Size-reduced embryos reveal a gradient scaling-based mechanism for zebrafish somite formation
Development (Cambridge, England), vol. 145, no. 11, dev161257Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.161257
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Feedback between tissue packing and neurogenesis in the zebrafish neural tube
Development (Cambridge), vol. 145, no. 9, 157040Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.157040
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Observing the cell in its native state: Imaging subcellular dynamics in multicellular organisms
Science, vol. 360, no. 6386, eaaq1392Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq1392
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On the Formation of Digits and Joints during Limb Development
Developmental Cell, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 459-465Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2017.04.021
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Orientation of Turing-like Patterns by Morphogen Gradients and Tissue Anisotropies
Cell Systems, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 408-416Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2015.12.001
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Mathematically guided approaches to distinguish models of periodic patterning
Development (Cambridge), vol. 142, no. 3, pp. 409-419Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.107441
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Interplay of cell shape and division orientation promotes robust morphogenesis of developing epithelia
Cell, vol. 159, no. 2, pp. 415-427Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.007
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Solar to electrical conversion via liquid crystal elastomers
Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 109, no. 10, 104506Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3581134
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