RESEARCH
Our lab
Our friendly, inclusive and collaborative lab work to model all aspects of zebrafish musculoskeletal biology. We are an interdisciplinary bunch and work with clinicians, engineers, physicists, paleontologists, chemists and biochemists.
We have current projects on:
Circadian rhythm in skeletal injury responses
Senescence in ageing cartilage and bone
The evolution of jaw shape
Sex dimorphism in the zebrafish skeleton
The role of neutrophils in fracture repair
Joint mechanics
Fish swim behaviour as a way of tracking skeletal severity
Genetics of joint disease and skeletal displasia
The role of autophagy in skeletal disease progression
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Recent news, open positions and links
Oct 2025
See this PhD with our collaborator Dr James Armstrong in fish and biomaterials
Oct 2024
PhD position with our collaborator Dr Jon Ball on medical microplastics
March 22, 2018
A team of student biologists [the Bristol Bone Biologists] have been selected to take part in the European Space Agency (ESA) Education Office Spin Your Thesis! 2018 programme, which will take place in the Netherlands this September.
October 26, 2017
Three academics from the University of Bristol will explore Mars and the microgravity environment, thanks to funding from the UK Space Agency in the latest round of the Aurora Science Programme and the Human Spaceflight and Microgravity programme.