Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Focus
- Computational Biology / Bioinformatics
- Phylogenomics and Evolution
- Vertebrate Comparative Transcriptomics/Genomics
- Tropical/Andean Biodiversity (in particular related to amphibians and reptiles)
- Host-gut microbiome interactions
- eDNA and metabarcoding
Teaching
Undergraduate level teaching:
- BIO3308 Research Project (2241_FYR)
- BIO3205 Global Change Biology (Module Coordinator from 2025)
- BIO3208: Advances in Crop and Animal Science and Technology
Postgraduate level teaching:
- BBC8034 Ecological Management & Conservation Biology
- BIO8207 Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- BBC8003
- BIO8307
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Inadvertent paralog inclusion drives artefactual topologies and timetree estimates in phylogenomics
Siu-Ting, K., Torres-Sánchez, M., San Mauro, D., Wikcockson, D., Wilkinson, M., Pisani, D., O'Connell, M. J. & Creevey, C., 01 Jun 2019, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36, 6, p. 1344-1356Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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CowPI A rumen microbiome focussed version of the PICRUSt functional inference software
Wilkinson, T. J., Huws, S. A., Edwards, J. E., Kingston-Smith, A. H., Siu-Ting, K., Hughes, M., Rubino, F., Friedersdorff, M. & Creevey, C. J., 25 May 2018, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 9, MAY, 1095.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Systematics of the Ameerega rubriventris complex (Anura: Dendrobatidae) with descriptions of two new cryptic species from the East-Andean versant of Peru
Brown, J. L., Siu-Ting, K., Von May, R., Twomey, E., Guillory, W. X., Deutsch, M. S. & Chávez, G., 19 Dec 2019, In: Zootaxa. 4712, 2, p. 211–235 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Concatabominations: Identifying Unstable Taxa in Morphological Phylogenetics using a Heuristic Extension to Safe Taxonomic Reduction
Siu-Ting, K., Pisani, D., Creevey, C. J. & Wilkinson, M., 01 Jan 2015, In: Systematic biology. 64, 1, p. 137-143Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile13 Citations (Scopus)202 Downloads (Pure) -
Strigolactone synthesis is ancestral in land plants, but canonical strigolactone signalling is a flowering plant innovation
Walker, C. H., Siu-Ting, K., Taylor, A., O'Connell, M. J. & Bennett, T., Sept 2019, In: BMC Biology. 17, 1, 1 p., 70.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile80 Citations (Scopus)96 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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ELEVATE IRC-Marie Curie cofund Postdoctoral fellowship
Siu-Ting, K. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Scholarship for MSc studies in Peruvian universities.
Siu Ting, K. (Recipient), 2008
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Board and founding member - Instituto Peruano de Herpetologia, Lima, Peru
Siu Ting, K. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Appointment
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Activities
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External examiner for PhD defense
Siu Ting, K. (Examiner)
Mar 2025Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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To be defined
Siu Ting, K. (Keynote speaker)
14 Feb 2025 → 17 Feb 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Systematics Association - Young Systematist Forum 2024
Siu Ting, K. (Organiser)
15 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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100 Years of Agriculture, Food and Biological Sciences in NI
Siu Ting, K. (Chair)
16 Oct 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Applied Hologenomics Conference
Siu Ting, K. (Participant)
30 Jun 2024 → 02 Jul 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Press/Media
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Toxic frogs: how do they make their poison?
07/05/2015
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment