Professor Andrew Leitch

Undergraduate Teaching

• Ecology (Field Course) (BIO123)
• Research Methods and Communication (Tutorial) (BIO209)
• Animal and Plant Diversity (BIO211)
• Evolutionary Genetics (BIO221)
• Research Methods and Communication II (Tutorials) (BIO309)
• Population and Chromosone Genetics (BIO325)
• Tropical Ecology and Conservation (BIO391)

Postgraduate Teaching

Teaching on our Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics MSc:

• Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Group Project (BIO727P)

Teaching on our Ecology and Evolutionary Biology MSc and Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics MSc:

• Research Frontiers in Evolutionary Biology (BIO731P)

Research

Research Interests:

My group is interested in plant genetics, genomics, and cytogenetics, focussing 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

• Leif Bersweden
• Lubna Faizullah
• Wenjia Gu
• Marie Henniges
• Joseph Morton
• Xiaotong Wang