Research group lead: Dr Oliver Tills

How organisms function, develop and interact with their environment is core to our understanding of biological systems. 

The Ecophysiology and Development Research Group (EDRG) builds on a foundation of more than 20 years of world-leading ecophysiology at the University. The EDRG develops and applies pioneering approaches for research in how organisms function, develop, and interact with their environment across scales, from molecules to ecosystems, and how this changes across space, time and life stage.

The EDRG takes a cross-system approach to understanding how environmental factors shape the biology of individual organisms and, in turn, influence populations and ecological processes. 

From marine animals to plants, EDRG shares a passion for pushing the boundaries of our understanding of some of the most complex systems on our planet: biological organisms. Via the application of research approaches and techniques ranging from transcriptomics to phenomics, across both lab and field, they address a broad range of research themes:

• How do thermal extremes shape organismal function?
• Applied physiology in conservation in aquaculture
• What are the mechanisms underlying resilience in crops?
• Can the future biology of organisms be predicted from phenomic screening during early life?
• How does life survive in the most inhospitable environments on Earth?
• Can AI measure whole-organismal biology better than humans? 

Please contact research group lead Dr Oliver Tills with any enquiries.