Alastair Simpson

Has grant

professor

Dalhousie University

Canada

Research Interests

Explore related searches

Professors in Canada Professors in Microbiology Microbiology professors in Canada

About

Alastair Simpson is a professor at Dalhousie University in Canada. His research focuses on the fluid dynamics and functional ecology of flagellates, with recent articles examining novel foraging mechanisms and the cultivation of various flagellate species. His work contributes to understanding the evolutionary significance of diverse eukaryotic lineages, particularly within the contexts of early eukaryote functionality and phylogeny.

Recent Grants

Grant: Close

Using free-living protozoan biodiversity to resolve deep eukaryote evolution

Open Date: 2019-04-01

Close Date: 2024-03-31

Articles (19)

Year:

2025

Year:

2025

Year:

2025

Year:

2025

Year:

2024

Year:

2024

Year:

2024

Year:

2024

Year:

2024

Year:

2023

Year:

2022

Year:

2022

Year:

2022

Year:

2021

Year:

2021

Year:

2021

Year:

2021

Year:

2021

Year:

2021

Collaborators (15)

Shelby Williams

Teaching Assistant

Dalhousie University

CANADA

Alastair Simpson

Research Interests

Explore related searches

About

Recent Grants

Articles (19)

The fluid dynamics and functional diversity of the flagella of free-living flagellates

Novel Foraging Mechanisms in Atypical Excavate Flagellates

Cultivation of Ancyromonas melba, and Reclassification as the Type Species of Divimonas gen. nov., a Phylogenetically Important Ancyromonad Lineage

Characterization of Allobodo yubaba sp. nov. and Novijibodo darinka gen. et sp. nov., cultivable free‐living species of the phylogenetically enigmatic kinetoplastid taxon Allobodonidae

Characterization of Skoliomonas gen. nov., a haloalkaliphilic anaerobe related to barthelonids (Metamonada)

Foraging mechanisms in excavate flagellates shed light on the functional ecology of early eukaryotes

The function of the feeding groove of ‘typical excavate’ flagellates

Kaonashia insperata gen. et sp. nov., a eukaryotrophic flagellate, represents a novel major lineage of heterotrophic stramenopiles

Meteora sporadica, a protist with incredible cell architecture, is related to Hemimastigophora

Characterisation and Cultivation of New Lineages of Colponemids, a Critical Assemblage for Inferring Alveolate Evolution

Euglena International Network (EIN): Driving euglenoid biotechnology for the benefit of a challenged world

Diplonemids – A Review on "New" Flagellates on the Oceanic Block

Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation

Description of Imasa heleensis, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Imasidae, fam. nov.), a Deep‐Branching Marine Malawimonad and Possible Key Taxon in Understanding Early Eukaryotic Evolution

Revision of the phylogeny of Placididea (Stramenopiles): Molecular and morphological diversity of novel placidid protists from extreme aquatic environments.

Evolutionary History of Mitochondrial Genomes in Discoba, Including the Extreme Halophile Pleurostomum flabellatum (Heterolobosea)

Description of the marine predator <i>Sericomyxa perlucida</i> gen. et sp. nov., a cultivated representative of the deepest branching lineage of vampyrellid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria)

Genomic analysis finds no evidence of canonical eukaryotic DNA processing complexes in a free-living protist

Multigene phylogenetics of euglenids based on single-cell transcriptomics of diverse phagotrophs

Collaborators (15)

Shelby Williams

Ingrid Sveráková

Thomas Kiørboe

Masami Nakazawa

Aaron Heiss

Vladimir Hampl

paul zimba

Jong Soo Park

Naoji Yubuki

Ryuji Kondo

Anna Karnkowska

John Favate

Michael Ginger

Antonio DeSimone

Federica Miano

Make your next move.