Professor Andrew Leitch

Undergraduate Teaching

• Research Methods and Communication (Tutorial) (BIO209)
• Animal and Plant Diversity (BIO211)
• Research Methods and Communication II (Tutorials) (BIO309)
• Population and Chromosome Genetics (BIO325)
• Tropical Ecology and Conservation (BIO391)

Postgraduate Teaching

Teaching on our MSc Biodiversity and Conservation and MSc Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity and Conservation.

Research

Research Interests:

My group is interested in plant genetics, genomics, and cytogenetics, focusing on questions of an evolutionary and ecological nature.  There is a focus on the processes and consequences of interspecific hybridisation and polyploidisation in plants, as well as an interest on the origin and ecological consequence of plant genome sizes. 

To find out more: evolve.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/leitch

Research department

• Biology

Publications

• Browse a list of publications by Andrew Leitch
• See Andrew Leitch's Google Scholar Citations

Supervision

Current PhD opportunity

• Exploring the impact of plant genome size on community structure dependent on soils and underlying geology

PhD supervision

• Lubna Faizullah
• Wenjia Gu
• Marie Henniges
• Joseph Morton
• Sayed Tahir Shah
• Xiaotong Wang
• Heru Rusfiandi