Background

I am a Research Associate within the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences. My current research is focussed on biofouling and researching molecular mechanisms which regulate and control bioadhesion in the brown anemone, Aiptasia pallida.

I graduated from Newcastle upon Tyne University with a BSc Honours in Biology in 2010, an MSc in Marine Biodiversity with Biotechnology from Heriot-Watt in 2011. Between 2012 and 2018 I lived in Australia, completing my PhD in Plant Biology and Genomics in 2017 at the University of Technology, Sydney in conjunction with industry partner, CSIRO, Australia. I investigated 'low-light' stress in the seagrass species, Zostera muelleri using high-throughput sequencing approaches, molecular Biology and bioinformatics.

After completing my PhD I joined the Seagrass Ecology Group of TropWATER, James Cook University in Cairns for a one year post-doctoral position focussed on seagrass meadow dynamics and ecology. Throughout my career I have worked for government and environmental consultancy firms within the UK and Australia.

Research interests:

• Bioinformatics and molecular biology
• Marine biotechnology
• Invertebrate and cnidarian biology
• Plant biology and plant-stress responses

Training:

• UNIX workshop - Intersect, Sydney, Australia.
  
• Advanced transcriptomics workshop - NZGL, New Zealand.
• R statistics course for Bioinformaticians - EMBL Heidelberg.
• High-throughput sequencing practical course - EBI, Hinxton.
• Software carpentry course, Python and Github - Queensland University.
• Chlorophyll PAM Fluorometry Course - University of Technology Sydney.
• Bioinformatics self-development (spare time).

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Publications

• Davey PA, Pernice M, Ashworth J, Kuzhiumparambil U, Szabó M, Dolferus R, Ralph PJ. A new mechanistic understanding of light-limitation in the seagrass Zostera muelleri. Marine Environmental Research 2018, 134, 55-67.
• Larkum AW, Pernice M, Schliep M, Davey P, Szabo M, Raven JA, Lichtenberg M, Brodersen KE, Ralph PJ. Photosynthesis and Metabolism of Seagrasses. In: Larkum AWD; Kendrick GA; Ralph PJ, ed. Seagrasses of Australia: Structure, Ecology and Conservation. Cham: Springer, 2018, pp.315-342.
• Davey PA, Rasheed MA. Port of Abbot Point Long-Term Seagrass Monitoring Program 2017. Cairns, Australia: Centre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, 2018. 18/16.
• Sablok G, Hayward RJ, Davey PA, Santos RP, Schliep M, Larkum A, Pernice M, Dolferus R, Ralph PJ. SeagrassDB: An open-source transcriptomics landscape for phylogenetically profiled seagrasses and aquatic plants. Scientific Reports 2018, 8, 2749.
• Larkum AWD, Davey PA, Kuo J, Ralph PJ, Raven JA. Carbon-concentrating mechanisms in seagrasses. Journal of Experimental Botany 2017, 68(14), 3773-3784. In Preparation.
• Kumar M, Padula MP, Davey P, Pernice M, Jiang Z, Sablok G, Contreras-Porcia L, Ralph PJ. Proteome analysis reveals extensive light stress-response reprogramming in the seagrass Zostera muelleri (Alismatales, Zosteraceae) metabolism. Frontiers in Plant Science 2017, 7, 2023.
• Davey PA, Pernice M, Sablok G, Larkum A, Lee HT, Golicz A, Edwards D, Dolferus R, Ralph P. The emergence of molecular profiling and omics techniques in seagrass biology; furthering our understanding of seagrasses. Functional & Integrative Genomics 2016, 16(5), 465-480.