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Professor Alex Douglas

Personal Chair

Accepting PhDs

About

Email Address: a.douglas@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 272873
Office Address: 411 Zoology Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Tillydrone Avenue
AB24 2TZ
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School/Department: School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

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Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Co-lead of the Medical Statistics Team
Member of the mangement team of the Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine (CGEBM).
Member of the Steering Committee for the High Performance Computing facility, University of Aberdeen.

External Memberships

Member of BBSRC Pool of Experts
Academic advisor British Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Research Assessor for the Carnegie Trust

Prizes and Awards

University of Aberdeen Excellence Awards - Best Taught Postgraduate lecturer 2017

Research

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences, Nutrition and Health, Biomedical Sciences, Applied Health Sciences.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Biological and Environmental Sciences

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Nutrition and Health

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Biomedical Sciences

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Applied Health Sciences

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Research Specialisms

Applied Statistics
Statistical Modelling
Bioinformatics
Medical Statistics
Statistics

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.

Funding and Grants

2021 -2022

Artificial intelligence approaches to improve diagnosis of gill disease in Atlantic salmon (AIGD). SAIC & The DataLab, £44K.

Professor Sam Martin (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2020 - 2022

Spatial and temporal drivers of gill pathology in Atlantic Salmon. SAIC, £160K.

Professor Sam Martin (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2017 - 2020

Assessing harbour deepening on bottlenose dolphins in Charleston. South Carolina Aquarium, £80K.

Professor David Lusseau (DBT), Dr Alex Douglas, Dr Dorian Houser (National Marine Mammal Foundation, USA), Dr Patricia Fair (USDOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS, USA).

2017 - 2021

The role of hypothalmic neuropeptide network in regulating tissues sizes in response to diet energy content and composition. BBSRC, £550K.

Professor John Speakman (UoA and Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2017 - 2019

Clinical nutrition and the treatment of Atlantic salmon gill diseases. SAIC, £284K.

Professor Sam Martin (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2017 - 2018

A collaborative feasibility study of the use of eDNA for ecosystem monitoring. Scottish Government, £12K

Dr Alex Douglas and Dr Iveta Matejusova (MSS).

2016 - 2019

Piezophillic adaptationin deep sea amphipods. NERC. £421K.

Professor Stu Piertney (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2015 - 2018

The genomic landscape of adaptive radiation in the Jaera albifrons species complex . NERC. £340K.

Professor Stu Piertney (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2015 - 2017

Gut health and immune function: the emerging role of gut microbiota in sustainable aquaculture. BBSRC-NERC, £212K.

Professor Sam Martin (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas, Dr Petra Lewis (UoA), Dr Daniel Merrifield (University of Plymouth), Dr Rachel Lawrence (Royal Veterinary College), Professor Douglas Tocher (University of Stirling), Professor Simon Davies(University of Plymouth).

2015 - 2016

The health black box in PCOD. Understanding the onset of health impacts caused by disturbances. ONR, £260K.

Dr David Lusseau (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas, Professor John Speakman (UoA and Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dr Dorian Houser (National Marine Mammal Foundation, USA), Dr Patricia Fair (USDOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS, USA), Mark Styczynski (Georgia Institute of Technolofy, USA).

2015- 2018

Explaining niche separation in tropical forests: feedbacks between root-fungal symbioses and soil phosphorus partitioning . NERC. £521K.

Professor David Burslem (UoA), Professor David Johnson (UoA), Dr Andy Taylor (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas.

2013 - 2016

Genome-wide association mapping and landscape scale modelling of heritable ionomic diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana populations. BBSRC. £605K

Professor David Salt (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas, Professor Pete Smith (UoA).

2013 - 2016

The human fetal liver: development and response to maternal drug use. MRC, £600K,

Professor P. Fowler (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas (UoA), Dr David Hay (University of Edinburgh), Professor John Iredale (University of Edinburgh), Professor P.O’shaughnessy (University of Glasgow).

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

I am Programme Coordinator for PGR Quantitative Research and Skills in the School of Biological Sciences with overall responsibility for the strategic direction, curricula development, coordination and provision of statistics teaching and training for the postgraduate community.

I also coordinate and teach multiple courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in the field, in the classroom and also online. Currently I teach on:

Undergraduate

BI29Z3 'Biodiversity Field Course'

Postgraduate Taught

MSc BI5009 'Experimental Design and Analysis' (course coordinator)

MSc BI5010 'Statistics for Complex Study designs' (course coordinator)

Postgraduate Research

QUADRAT and SUPER NERC DTPs 'An Introduction to R for biologists' (course coordinator)

QUADRAT NERC DTP 'An Introduction to Linear Modelling Using R' (course coordinator)

PGR 'An Introduction to R' (course coordinator)

PGR 'An Introduction to Statistical Modelling in R' (course coordinator)

PGR ' An Introduction to Generalised Linear Modelling using R' (course coordinator)

Previous Teaching

UG BI3010 'Statistical Analysis of Biological Data' (course coordinator)

MSc BI5505 'Introduction to Bayesian Inference' (course coordinator)

MSc ZO5304 'Population and Community Ecology'

I have also written a free open access book which introduces researchers to using R for robust and reproducible research.

https://intro2r.com/

Non-course Teaching Responsibilities

I am a personal tutor for 16 undergraduate students

Publications

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The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: XI. Evaluation of the main hypotheses underpinning the life extension effects of CR using the hepatic transcriptome
2017 - Published
Derous, D., Mitchell, S. E., Wang, L., Green, C. L., Wang, Y., Chen, L., Han, J. J., Promislow, D. E. L., Lusseau, D., Douglas, A., Speakman, J. R.
Aging, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1770-1824
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101269
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9096/1/The_effects_of_graded_levels_of_calorie_restriction_XI._Evaluation_of_the_main_hypotheses_underpinning_the_life_extension_effects_of_CR_using_the_hepatic_transcriptome.pdf
The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: IX. Global metabolomic screen reveals modulation of carnitines, sphingolipids and bile acids in the liver of C57BL/6 mice
2017 - Published
Green, C. L., Mitchell, S. E., Derous, D., Wang, Y., Chen, L., Han, J. J., Promislow, D. E. L., Lusseau, D., Douglas, A., Speakman, J. R.
Aging Cell, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 529-540
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12570
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8135/3/Green_et_al_2017_Aging_Cell_1_.pdf
Assessing the consequences of environmental impacts: variation in species responses has unpredictable functional effects
2017 - Published
Murray, F., Widdicombe, S., McNeill, C. L., Douglas, A.
Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 583, pp. 35-47
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12358
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11448/3/Murray_et_al.docx
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11448/1/Murray_et_al_Appendix_v3.docx
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11448/2/Murray_Fig1.tif
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11448/6/Murray_Fig2.tif
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11448/5/Murray_Fig3.tif
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11448/4/Murray_Fig4.tif
RADseq-based phylogenomics fully resolves evolutionary relationships in a species complex of sympatric intertidal isopods (Jaera albifrons).
2017 - Published
Wenzel, M., Mifsud, D. V., Douglas, A., Piertney, S.
European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) XVI Congress
Contributions to Conferences: Posters
The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: VIII. impact of short term calorie and protein restriction on basal metabolic rate in the C57BL/6 mouse
2017 - Published
Mitchell, S. E., Tang, Z. H., Kerbois, C., Delville, C., Derous, D., Green, C. L., Wang, Y., Han, J. J. D., Chen, L., Douglas, A., Lusseau, D., Promislow, D. E. L., Speakman, J. R.
Oncotarget, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 17453-17474
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.15294
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8366/1/The_effects_of_graded_levels_of_calorie_restriction.pdf
The genomic landscape of pre-zygotic reproductive isolation in a sympatric species complex of intertidal isopods (Jaera albifrons)
2017 - Published
Wenzel, M., Mifsud, D. V., Douglas, A., Piertney, S.
Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
A heavy metal P-type ATPase OsHMA4 prevents copper accumulation in rice grain
2016 - Published
Huang, X., Deng, F., Yamaji, N., Pinson, S. R. M., Fujii-Kashino, M., Danku, J., Douglas, A., Guerinot, M. L., Salt, D. E., Ma, J. F.
Nature Communications, vol. 7, pp. 1-13
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12138
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6239/1/ncomms12138.pdf
Gut health and integrity in atlantic salmon fed plant protein diets
2016 - Published
Krol, E., Douglas, A., Secombes, C. J., Martin, S. A. M.
Fish & Shellfish Immunology, vol. 53, pp. 69
Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: VII. Topological rearrangement of hypothalamic aging networks
2016 - Published
Derous, D., Mitchell, S. E., Green, C. L., Wang, Y., Chen, L., Promislow, D. E. L., Lusseau, D., Speakman, J. R., Douglas, A.
Aging, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 917-931
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.100944
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/10744/1/aging_08_0917.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: VI. Impact of short-term graded calorie restriction on transcriptomic responses of the hypothalamic hunger and circadian signaling pathways
2016 - Published
Derous, D., Mitchell, S. E., Green, C. L., Chen, L., Han, J. J., Wang, Y., Promislow, D. E. L., Lusseau, D., Speakman, J. R., Douglas, A.
Aging, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 642-661
Contributions to Journals: Articles
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.100895
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5562/2/aging_08_642.pdf

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The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: XI. Evaluation of the main hypotheses underpinning the life extension effects of CR using the hepatic transcriptome

The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: IX. Global metabolomic screen reveals modulation of carnitines, sphingolipids and bile acids in the liver of C57BL/6 mice

Assessing the consequences of environmental impacts: variation in species responses has unpredictable functional effects

RADseq-based phylogenomics fully resolves evolutionary relationships in a species complex of sympatric intertidal isopods (Jaera albifrons).

The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: VIII. impact of short term calorie and protein restriction on basal metabolic rate in the C57BL/6 mouse

The genomic landscape of pre-zygotic reproductive isolation in a sympatric species complex of intertidal isopods (Jaera albifrons)

A heavy metal P-type ATPase OsHMA4 prevents copper accumulation in rice grain

Gut health and integrity in atlantic salmon fed plant protein diets

The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: VII. Topological rearrangement of hypothalamic aging networks

The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: VI. Impact of short-term graded calorie restriction on transcriptomic responses of the hypothalamic hunger and circadian signaling pathways

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