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Welcome to Dan Nussey's website.

 

I am an evolutionary ecologist based at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Edinburgh. My research aims to understand the causes and consequences of among individual differences in the ageing process. The deterioration of physiological function with age (or senescence), although seemingly inevitable, is one of the most complex, variable and poorly understood of biological processes. Why do some individuals remain healthy and live to a ripe old age, whilst others deteriorate and die much sooner? I use individual-based studies of wild animals to test evolutionary explanations for this variation, and to understand how genes and early-life environmental conditions predict patterns of physiological and demographic change in later adulthood.  

 

Further details of my research interests, publications and current opportunities to join the group can be found using the links above.

 

Kathryn Watt, Jen Dorrens and Hannah Froy are part of the group - you can find information on each of them under the people link.

 

I am currently a BBSRC David Phillips research fellow, and a member of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Immunity, Infection & Evolution in Edinburgh.

 

Dan Nussey                                              

Ashworth Laboratories, The Kings Buildings,

West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT

Tel: +44 (0)131 6505494

Email: dan.nussey@ed.ac.uk