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Dr Kara Layton

Dr Kara Layton
Dr Kara Layton

Dr Kara Layton

BSc, MSc, PhD

Lecturer

About

School of Biological Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Tillydrone Avenue
Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ

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Biography

https://www.laytonlab.com/

2020: Lecturer in Marine Biology, University of Aberdeen

2019-2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Ocean Frontier Institute and Bedford Institute of Oceanography

2015-2018: PhD (Marine Biology), University of Western Australia

2010-2013: MSc (Integrative Biology), University of Guelph

2005-2009: BSc (Marine & Freshwater Biology), University of Guelph

External Memberships

Professional Member, The Marine Biological Association

Research

Research Overview

My research uses field and lab systems alongside genetic and genomic tools to understand how and why there is so much diversity in our oceans, and how climate change will impact this diversity. This involves resolving systematic and biogeographic patterns in marine taxa, identifying drivers of marine speciation and adaptation, predicting how biodiversity will respond to future climate change and continuing efforts to document global biodiversity. I also have a particular interest in improving genomic resources for marine invertebrates.

Research Areas

Biological and Environmental Sciences

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Research Specialisms

  • Ecology
  • Marine Biology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Evolution
  • Genomics

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.

Funding and Grants

Internal Funding to Pump-Prime Interdisciplinary Research (2021). An interdisciplinary approach to generate a paradigm shift in characterizing biodiversity. £7,780

MASTS Emerging From Lockdown Award (2021). Integrating genomics and metabolomics to understand climate change response in marine species. £5,000

The Natural Environment Research Council- NERC QUADRAT PhD Studentship Grant (2021). Establishing marine biodiversity baselines for blue carbon habitats. £95,000

The Natural Environment Research Council- NERC SUPER PhD Studentship Grant (2020). Integrating genomics and modelling to predict climate change response and identify drivers of decline in the endangered freshwater pearl mussel. £76,996.50

European Marine Biological Resource Centre- ASSEMBLE+ Transnational Access Grant (2020). Illuminating nudibranch biodiversity in an Atlantic hotspot. £7,000

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Course Coordinator: Marine Biodiversity (ZO4820/ZO5820)
Course Contributor: Ecological Genomics (BI3312), Fundamentals of Marine Biology (BI25Z5), 
Diversity of Life 2 (BI1512)
Publications

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  • Using movement, diet, and genetic analyses to understand Arctic charr responses to ecosystem change

    Côté, D., Dempson, J. B., Piersiak, M., Layton, K., Roul, S., Laing, R., Angnatok, J., Bradbury, I. R.
    Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 673, pp. 135-149
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Genomic basis of deep-water adaptation in Arctic Charr (Salvelinus alpinus) morphs

    Kess, T., Dempson, J. B., Lehnert, S. J., Layton, K., Einfeldt, A., Bentzen, P., Salisbury, S. J., Messmer, A., Duffy, S., Ruzzante, D., Nugent, C. M., Ferguson, M., Leong, J. S., Koop, B. F., O'Connell, M., Bradbury, I. R.
    Molecular Ecology, vol. 30, no. 18, pp. 4415-4432
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A putative structural variant and environmental variation associated with genomic divergence across the Northwest Atlantic in Atlantic Halibut

    Kess, T., Einfeldt, A., Wringe, B., Lehnert, S., Layton, K., McBride, M., Robert, D., Fisher, J., Le Bris, A., den Heyer, C., Shackell, N., Ruzzante, D., Bentzen, P., Bradbury, I. R.
    ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsab061
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Genomic evidence of past and future climate-linked loss in a migratory Arctic fish

    Layton, K., Snelgrove, P., Dempson, J. B., Kess, T., Lehnert, S., Bentzen, P., Duffy, S., Messmer, A., Stanley, R., DiBacco, C., Salisbury, S., Ruzzante, D., Nugent, C., Ferguson, M., Leong, J., Koop, B., Bradbury, I.
    Nature Climate Change, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 158-165
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Life in a drop: Sampling environmental DNA for marine fishery management and ecosystem monitoring

    Gilbey, J., Carvalho, G., Castilho, R., Cosica, I., Coulson, M., Dahle, G., Derycke, S., Francisco, S., Heylar, S., Johansen, T., Junge, C., Layton, K., Martinsohn, J., Matejusova, I., Robalo, J., Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, N., Silva, G., Strammer, I., Vasemagi, A., Volckaert, F.
    Marine Policy, vol. 124, 104331
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Limited genetic parallelism underlies recent, repeated incipient speciation in geographically proximate populations of an Arctic fish (Salvelinus alpinus)

    Salisbury, S. J., McCracken, G. R., Perry, R., Keefe, D., Layton, K., Kess, T., Nugent, C. M., Leong, J. S., Bradbury, I. R., Koop, B. F., Ferguson, M. M., Ruzzante, D. E.
    Molecular Ecology, vol. 29, no. 22, pp. 4280-4294
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Mimicry and mitonuclear discordance in nudibranchs: new insights from exon capture phylogenomics

    Layton, K. K. S., Carvajal, J. I., Wilson, N. G.
    Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10, no. 21, pp. 11966-11982
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Resolving fine-scale population structure and fishery exploitation using sequenced microsatellites in a northern fish

    Layton, K. K. S., Dempson, B., Snelgrove, P. V. R., Duffy, S. J., Messmer, A. M., Paterson, I. G., Jeffery, N. W., Kess, T., Horne, J. B., Salisbury, S. J., Ruzzante, D. E., Bentzen, P., Côté, D., Nugent, C. M., Ferguson, M. M., Leong, J. S., Koop, B. F., Bradbury, I. R.
    Evolutionary Applications, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1055-1068
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Model-based evaluation of the genetic impacts of farm-escaped Atlantic salmon on wild populations

    Bradbury, I. R., Duffy, S., Lehnert, S., Johannsson, R., Fridriksson, J. H., Castellani, M., Burgetz, I., Sylvester, E., Messmer, A., Layton, K., Kelly, N., Dempson, J. B., Fleming, I.
    Aquaculture Environment Interactions, vol. 12, pp. 45-59
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A reference library for Canadian invertebrates with 1.5 million barcodes, voucher specimens, and DNA samples

    deWaard, J. R., Ratnasingham, S., Zakharov, E. V., Borisenko, A. V., Steinke, D., Telfer, A. C., Perez, K. H. J., Sones, J. E., Young, M. R., Levesque-Beaudin, V., Sobel, C. N., Abrahamyan, A., Bessonov, K., Blagoev, G., deWaard, S. L., Ho, C., Ivanova, N. V., Layton, K. K. S., Lu, L., Manjunath, R., McKeown, J. T. A., Milton, M. A., Miskie, R., Monkhouse, N., Naik, S., Nikolova, N., Pentinsaari, M., Prosser, S. W. J., Radulovici, A. E., Steinke, C., Warne, C. P., Hebert, P. D. N.
    Scientific Data, vol. 6, 308
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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