Dr Lee Henry

Lee Henry

Reader in Molecular Microbial Ecology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/staff/leehenry.html
Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics
Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability
Centre for Molecular Cell Biology
ORCID

Research

Evolution, Ecology, Genomics, Symbiosis, Entomology, Microbiology

Interests

My research aims to understand how interactions between individuals and species shape the diversification and organisation of life. In particular, I am interested in how symbiotic relationships with microbes evolve. A central theme to my research is to understand how biotic and abiotic interactions shape symbiotic relationships from the molecular level to the macro-evolutionary scale using invertebrates and their symbiotic microbes as a study system. To meet this goal, my group combines theoretical predictions from ecology and evolution with large-scale empirical tests, using state of the art molecular and experimental techniques – including evolutionary genetics, ‘omics, synthetic biology, comparative methods, and laboratory in vivo experiments.