Personal Chair
- Email Address
- a.douglas@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272873
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Memberships and Affiliations
- 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.
- 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 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.
Nutrition and Health
Accepting PhDsApplied Health Sciences
Accepting PhDsResearch 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 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.
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
I am a personal tutor for 16 undergraduate students
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Microbial and histopathological insights into gill health of Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) across Scottish aquaculture sites
Costelloe, E. P., Lorgen-Ritchie, M., Krol, E., Noguera, P., Bickerdike, R., Tinsley, J., Valdenegro, V., Douglas, A., Martin, S. A.Aquaculture, vol. 599, 742166Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLinking epidemiology and genomics of maternal smoking during pregnancy in utero and in aging: a population-based study using human foetuses and the UK Biobank cohort
Mihov, M., Shoctor, H., Douglas, A., Hay, D. C., O'Shaughnessy, P. J., Iredale, J. P., Shaw, S., Fowler, P. A. F., Grassmann, F.EBioMedicineContributions to Journals: ArticlesModulation of metabolic and immunoregulatory pathways in the gut transcriptome of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) after early nutritional programming during first feeding with plant-based diet
Tawfik, M., Betancor, M. B., McMillan, S., Norambuena, F., Tocher, D., Douglas, A., Martin, S.Frontiers in Immunology, vol. 15, 1412821Contributions to Journals: ArticlesModulation of gut microbiota composition and predicted metabolic capacity after nutritional programming with a plant-rich diet in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): insights across developmental stages
Tawfik, M. M., Lorgen-Ritchie, M., Krol, E., McMillan, S., Norambuena, F., Bolnick, D. I., Douglas, A., Tocher, D. R., Betancor, M. B., Martin, S.Animal Microbiome, vol. 6, 38Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIn utero exposures to perfluoroalkyl substances and the human fetal liver metabolome in Scotland: a cross-sectional study
Hyötyläinen, T., McGlinchey, A., Salihovic, S., Schubert, A., Douglas, A., Hay, D. C., O'Shaughnessy, P. J., Iredale, J. P., Shaw, S., Fowler, P. A., Orešič, M.The Lancet Planetary Health, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. e5-e17Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMaternal High Fat Diet in Lactation Impacts Hypothalamic Neurogenesis and Neurotrophic Development, Leading to Later Life Susceptibility to Obesity in Male but Not Female Mice
Xu, Y., Yang, D., Wang, L., Król, E., Mazidi, M., Li, L., Huang, Y., Niu, C., Liu, X., Lam, S. M., Shui, G., Douglas, A., Speakman, J. R.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), vol. 10, no. 35, e2305472Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effects of graded levels of calorie restriction: XIX. Impact of graded calorie restriction on protein expression in the liver
Wang, L., Derous, D., Huang, X., Mitchell, S. E., Douglas, A., Lusseau, D., Wang, Y., Speakman, J. R.The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol. 78, no. 7, pp. 1125-1134Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFur removal promotes an earlier expression of involution-related genes in mammary gland of lactating mice
Krol, E., Turner, F., Derous, D., Mitchell, S. E., Martin, S., Douglas, A., Speakman, J.Journal of Comparative Physiology. B, Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology, pp. 171-192Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUntargeted plasma metabolomic analysis of wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) indicate protein degradation when in poorer health
Derous, D., Kebke, A., Fair, P. A., Styczynski, M., Bossart, G. D., Douglas, A., Lusseau, D.Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics, vol. 42, 100991Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEffects of dietary macronutrients on the hepatic transcriptome and serum metabolome in mice
Wu, Y., Green, C. L., Wang, G., Yang, D., Li, L., Li, B., Wang, L., Li, M., Li, J., Xu, Y., Zhang, X., Niu, C., Hu, S., Togo, J., Mazidi, M., Derous, D., Douglas, A., Speakman, J.Aging Cell, vol. 21, no. 4, e13585Contributions to Journals: Articles
