Dr Andrew Oliphant

PhD

Dr Andrew Oliphant

Lecturer in Zoology

Department of Life Sciences

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I was awarded my PhD in 2014 from the University of Southampton for work on plasticity in crustacean larval development.  I then joined Aberystwyth University working with Dr David Wilcockson on a project to unravel the neuropeptide control of crustacean moulting.  In 2018, I moved to Prof. Peter Dearden’s laboratory for evolution and development, University of Otago, NZ, where I worked on early embryogenesis in insects.  Returning to the UK in 2022, I joined the group of Dr Michael Hastings (FRS) at the MRC - Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, on a project that saw me hosted in Dr David Wilcockson’s lab.  This project sought to identify the molecular and neuronal basis of tidal time keeping in crustaceans. I joined Aberystwyth University as a Lecturer in Zoology in 2026.

I am a zoologist specialising in arthropod growth, development and neurobiology.  I am interested in how brains develop and function to control behaviour and physiology, and how environment can influence brain development and function.  Here at Aberystwyth, I am using the amphipod model crustacean, Parhyale hawaiensis, as a tool to study crustacean brain development and function.

Expression of clock genes tracks daily and tidal time in brains of intertidal crustaceans Eurydice pulchra and Parhyale hawaiensis. / Oliphant, Andrew; Sia, Chee Y.; Kyriacou, Charalambos P. et al.
In: Current Biology, Vol. 35, No. 12, 23.06.2025, p. 2802-2815.e5.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Variable shrimp in variable environments: Reproductive investment within Palaemon varians. / Oliphant, Andrew; Thatje, Sven.
In: Hydrobiologia, Vol. 848, No. 2, 31.01.2021, p. 469-484.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Phospholipid fatty acids are correlated with critical thermal tolerance but not with critical pressure tolerance in the shallow-water shrimp Palaemon varians during sustained exposure to low temperature. / Brown, Alastair; Thatje, Sven; Pond, David et al.
In: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Vol. 529, 151394, 31.08.2020.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Pigment Dispersing Factors and Their Cognate Receptors in a Crustacean Model, With New Insights Into Distinct Neurons and Their Functions. / Alexander, Jodi L.; Oliphant, Andrew; Wilcockson, David C. et al.
In: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol. 14, 595648, 29.10.2020.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Transcriptomic characterisation of neuropeptides and their putative cognate G protein-coupled receptors during late embryo and stage-1 juvenile development of the Aotearoa-New Zealand crayfish, Paranephrops zealandicus. / Oliphant, Andrew; Hawkes, Mary K. N.; Cridge, Andrew G. et al.
In: General and Comparative Endocrinology, Vol. 292, 113443, 01.06.2020.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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