Dr. Si Creer - Quick CV

Further information

Education

2000 PhD. Molecular phylogeography and venom evolution of Trimeresurus stejnegeri in Taiwan. NERC funded, The University of Wales, Bangor (UWB), UK.

1997 MSc. Ecology (Distinction). NERC funded, UWB.

1992 BSc. (Hons) Applied Biology (2.1). University of Bath, UK.

2005 Teaching in Higher Education Certificate. UWB.

Career

11/05 – present Senior Research Fellow in Molecular Ecology - UWB, Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory.

07/05 – 10/05 Postdoctoral Research Associate. NERC grant, “Functional and genomic venom diversity of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) genes in Asian pitvipers” UWB.

06/01– 06/05 Postdoctoral Research Associate (named). Wellcome Trust grant, “Reliable molecular phylogenies for medically important venomous snakes: subtropical and tropical Asian vipers” UWB.

09/03 – 09/04 Temporary Lectureship in Zoology. UWB.

01 – 06/01 Postdoctoral Research Associate. Leverhulme Trust grant, “Far-east Asian pitvipers: venom evolution and biodiversity” University of Wales, Bangor.

Grants and Awards

2010-2011 - NERC AFI Collaborative Gearing Scheme grant: A second-generation sequencing perspective of the Antarctic bentho-pelagic microbial biosphere
2010-2012 - MARMEDIV: Marie Curie Incoming Fellowship with Frederic Sinniger (174,000 Euros)
2009- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Environmental genomics of life in the intertidal: Design and optimization of a gastropod microarray (£8000)
2008-2010 - NERC Post genomic and proteomics grant: Sequencing the meiofaunal metagenome of the marine/freshwater interface in key estuarine ecosystems (£140000)
2008- CoSyst: The Systematics Association, The Linnean Society, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), NERC: Advancing mitogenomics via ultrasequencing: A case study within the Araneae (£10200)

2006-2009 - NERC New Investigator Award: Are marine nematodes hyperdiverse? A metagenomic solution (£76000)
2007 - NERC Phylochip development for the rapid identification of littoral meiofaunal communities (£4750)
2004 Joseph B. Slowinski Award for the most distinguished international paper on snake systematics for Creer et al (2003a) ($500)
1997 UWB Llewellyn and Mary Williams Scholarship for PhD funding (£14000)
1996 NERC MSc funding (£3500)

Professional Activities

2010- Associate Editor Molecular Ecology Resources

2009- NERC Peer Review College member
2006-2009 Committee member for the Joseph B. Slowinski Award
2005 Instigator of UW Bangor becoming a member organisation of the Consortium for Barcoding of Life
2003-present Recorder for the British Arachnological Society Spider Recording Scheme
2003-present Member of the British Arachnological Society (BAS)

In addition to the above, I review articles for Nature Communications, Systematic Biology, Molecular Ecology, Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Conservation Genetics, Heredity, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Fish Biology, Journal of Zoology, Environmental Microbiology and Marine Ecology Progress Series.