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Dr Thomas Hiscock

Dr Thomas Hiscock
Dr Thomas Hiscock
Dr Thomas Hiscock

Senior Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

About
Email Address
thomas.hiscock@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 437331
Office Address

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Institute of Medical Sciences 
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
Foresterhill Health Campus
ABERDEEN, AB25 2ZD, Scotland, UK

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School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
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Biography

I originally trained as a theoretical physicist at the University of Cambridge (B.A.,M.Sci), before setting off across the Atlantic to do my Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School. In Sean Megason's lab, I fell in love with embryos, and spent the best part of six years watching them develop under a microscope. In my postdoc, supervised by John Marioni and Ben Simons at the University of Cambridge, I worked on several projects combining my training in physics with my love for developmental biology. In Summer 2020, I started as a Lecturer in Systems Biology at the IMS. 

Research

Research Overview

I use mathematical models, computational data analysis and close collaborations with experimentalists to understand development - the remarkable processes that allow single-cell embryos to develop into complex, functional and diverse adult forms. Please see my personal website for more details: https://twhiscock.github.io/

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Maths, Biomedical Sciences, Physics.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Maths

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Biomedical Sciences

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Physics

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Research Specialisms

  • Mathematical Modelling
  • Developmental Biology

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Teaching

Courses

Publications

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  • Feedback between tissue packing and neurogenesis in the zebrafish neural tube

    Hiscock, T. W., Miesfeld, J. B., Mosaliganti, K. R., Link, B. A., Megason, S. G.
    Development (Cambridge), vol. 145, no. 9, 157040
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Observing the cell in its native state: Imaging subcellular dynamics in multicellular organisms

    Liu, T. L., Upadhyayula, S., Milkie, D. E., Singh, V., Wang, K., Swinburne, I. A., Mosaliganti, K. R., Collins, Z. M., Hiscock, T. W., Shea, J., Kohrman, A. Q., Medwig, T. N., Dambournet, D., Forster, R., Cunniff, B., Ruan, Y., Yashiro, H., Scholpp, S., Meyerowitz, E. M., Hockemeyer, D., Drubin, D. G., Martin, B. L., Matus, D. Q., Koyama, M., Megason, S. G., Kirchhausen, T., Betzig, E.
    Science, vol. 360, no. 6386, eaaq1392
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • On the Formation of Digits and Joints during Limb Development

    Hiscock, T. W., Tschopp, P., Tabin, C. J.
    Developmental Cell, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 459-465
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles

  • Orientation of Turing-like Patterns by Morphogen Gradients and Tissue Anisotropies

    Hiscock, T. W., Megason, S. G.
    Cell Systems, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 408-416
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Mathematically guided approaches to distinguish models of periodic patterning

    Hiscock, T. W., Megason, S. G.
    Development (Cambridge), vol. 142, no. 3, pp. 409-419
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Interplay of cell shape and division orientation promotes robust morphogenesis of developing epithelia

    Xiong, F., Ma, W., Hiscock, T. W., Mosaliganti, K. R., Tentner, A. R., Brakke, K. A., Rannou, N., Gelas, A., Souhait, L., Swinburne, I. A., Obholzer, N. D., Megason, S. G.
    Cell, vol. 159, no. 2, pp. 415-427
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Solar to electrical conversion via liquid crystal elastomers

    Hiscock, T., Warner, M., Palffy-Muhoray, P.
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 109, no. 10, 104506
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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