Professor Simon Creer

Professor of Molecular Ecology

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I am interested in using contemporary molecular tools to address diverse questions focusing on biodiversity, ecology and evolution. This is a particularly exciting time in the field of molecular ecology, since advances in DNA sequencing throughput have recently offered a paradigm shift in our ability to assess previously intractable functional and taxonomic biodiversity at an unprecedented scale, augmenting existing biodiversity fields and empowering others. Using such technologies, I am testing a range of hypotheses regarding the alpha and beta functional and taxonomic diversity of macro-, meio- and microbial communities (e.g. microbiomes) in space and time, based on genomic, community and environmental DNA (eDNA). Focal habitats have included estuarine, coastal and deep sea environments with an increasing focus now on freshwater, terrestrial, whole organisms and the aerial biosphere in order to understand the drivers of diversity in natural communities and also how diversity is linked with ecological function, trophic relationships, environmental and human health. Current additional activities include phylogenomics, population genetics, life history evolution, polyploidy, pollination genomics.

Any funded Fellowship, postgraduate or postdoctoral positions will be advertised on the group website/social media feeds, but we also welcome enquiries from candidates seeking their own funding mechanisms, to develop future research collaborations.


Email: s.creer@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44(0)1248 382302

Address: School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, UK

URL: http://mefgl.bangor.ac.uk/staff/si.php

Twitter: @SiCreerProf

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    Targeting optimal introns for phylogenetic analyses in non-model taxa: experimental results in Asian pitvipers.

    Creer, S., Malhotra, A., Thorpe, R. S. & Pook, C. E., 1 Awst 2005, Yn: Cladistics. 21, 4, t. 390-395

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    Temperate airborne grass pollen defined by spatio-temporal shifts in community composition

    Brennan, G. L., Potter, C., De Vere, N., Griffith, G. W., Skjøth, C. A., Osborne, N. J., Wheeler, B. W., McInnes, R. N., Clewlow, Y., Barber, A., Hanlon, H. M., Hegarty, M., Jones, L., Kurganskiy, A., Rowney, F. M., Armitage, C., Adams-Groom, B., Ford, C. R., Petch, G. M., The PollerGEN Consortium & Creer, S., Mai 2019, Yn: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 3, 5, t. 750-754

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    Temporal Patterns of Honeybee Foraging in a Diverse Floral Landscape Revealed Using Pollen DNA Metabarcoding of Honey

    Jones, L., Lowe, A., Ford, C. R., Creer, S. & de Vere, N., 1 Awst 2022, Yn: Integrative and Comparative Biology. 62, 2, t. 199-210

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    Temporal change in floral availability leads to periods of resource limitation and affects diet specificity in a generalist pollinator

    Lowe, A., Jones, L., Brennan, G., Creer, S., Christie, L. & de Vere, N., 24 Hyd 2022, Yn: Molecular Ecology. 32, 23, t. 6363-6376 14 t.

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    Temporal genetic homogeneity among shore crab (Carcinus maenas) larval events supplied to an estuarine system on the Portuguese northwest coast.

    Domingues, C. P., Creer, S., Taylor, M. I., Queiroga, H. & Carvalho, G. R., 1 Mai 2011, Yn: Heredity. 106, 5, t. 832-840

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    The biogeography of the atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) gut microbiome

    Llewellyn, M. S., McGinnity, P., Dionne, M., Letourneau, J., Thonier, F., Carvalho, G., Creer, S. & Derome, N., Mai 2016, Yn: ISME Journal. 10, t. 1280-1284

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    The ecologist’s field guide to sequence-based identification of biodiversity

    Creer, S., Deiner, K., Frey, S., Porazinska, D., Taberlet, P., Thomas, W. K., Potter, C. & Bik, H. M., 13 Medi 2016, Yn: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 7, t. 1008-1018 11 t.

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    The importance of being genomic: Non-coding and coding sequences suggest different models of toxin multi-gene family evolution

    Malhotra, A., Creer, S., Harris, J. B. & Thorpe, R. S., 7 Medi 2015, Yn: Toxicon. 107, Part B, t. 344-358

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    The utility of AFLPs for supporting mitochondrial DNA phylogeographical analyses in the Taiwanese bamboo viper, Trimeresurus stejnegeri

    Creer, S., Thorpe, R., Malhotra, A., Chou, W. H. & Stenson, A. G., 1 Ion 2004, Yn: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 17, 1, t. 100-107

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    Tideless estuaries in brackish seas as possible freshwater-marine transition zones for bacteria: the case study of the Vistula river estuary

    Golebiewski, M., Calkiewicz, J., Creer, S. & Piwosz, K., Ebr 2017, Yn: Environmental Microbiology Reports. 9, 2, t. 129-143

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    Transcriptomics and in vivo tests reveal novel mechanisms underlying endocrine disruption in an ecological sentinel, Nucella lapillus

    Hughes, R. N., Pascoal, S., Carvalho, G. R., Vasieva, O., Hughes, R., Cossins, A., Fang, Y., Ashelford, K., Olohan, L., Barroso, C., Mendo, S. & Creer, S., 1 Maw 2013, Yn: Molecular Ecology. 22, 6, t. 1589-1608

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    UK DNA working group eDNA week, January 2022

    Handley, L. L., Blackwell, T., Broadhurst, H. A., Clark, K., Davison, P. I., England, J., Mariani, S., McDevitt, A. D., Pillay, G. K., Read, D., Walsh, K., Nisbet, A. & Creer, S., 1 Ion 2023, Yn: Environmental DNA. 5, 1, t. 18-24 7 t.

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    Ultrasequencing of the meiofaunal biosphere: practice, pitfalls and promises.

    Creer, S., Fonseca, V. G., Porazinska, D. L., Giblin-Davis, R. M., Sung, W., Powers, D. M., Packer, M., Carvalho, G. R., Blaxter, M. L., Lambshead, P. J. & Thomas, W. K., 1 Maw 2010, Yn: Molecular Ecology. 19, 1, t. 4-20

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    Using DNA metabarcoding to investigate honey bee foraging reveals limited flower use despite high floral availability

    De Vere, N., Jones, L. E., Gilmore, T., Moscrop, J., Lowe, A., Smith, D., Hegarty, M. J., Creer, S. & Ford, C. R., 2017, Yn: Scientific Reports. 7, 42838.

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    Whole genome duplication and transposable element proliferation drive genome expansion in Corydoradinae catfishes

    Marburger, S., Alexandrou, M., Taggart, J. B., Creer, S., Carvalho, G., Oliveira, C. & Taylor, M. I., 14 Chwef 2018, Yn: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 285, 1872, 20172732.

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    Worldwide Analysis of Sedimentary DNA Reveals Major Gaps in Taxonomic Knowledge of Deep-Sea Benthos

    Sinniger, F., Pawlowski, J., Harii, S., Gooday, A. J., Yamamoto, H., Chevaldonne, P., Cedhagen, T., Carvalho, G. & Creer, S., 14 Meh 2016, Yn: Frontiers in Marine Science. 3, 92

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    Marine ecology: Genetics from a drop in the ocean

    Creer, S. & Seymour, M., 4 Ion 2017, Yn: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 1, 0037.

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    Design considerations for eDNA metabarcoding surveys

    Perry, W. B., Pillay, K., George, P., Brennan, G., Lowe, A., Jones, L., Holman, L., Gibson, T., de Vere, N. & Creer, S., 19 Ion 2024, Applied Environmental Genomics. Berry, O. F., Holleley, C. E. & Jarman, S. N. (gol.). CRC Press

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    Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies

    Bohmann, K., Elbrecht, V., Caroe, C., Bista, I., Leese, F., Bunce, M., Yu, D. W., Seymour, M., Dumbrell, A. & Creer, S., Mai 2022, Yn: Molecular Ecology Resources. 22, 4, t. 1231-1246 16 t.

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    Using DNA Metabarcoding to Identify Floral Visitation by Pollinators

    Lowe, A., Jones, L., Witter, L., Creer, S. & de Vere, N., 24 Maw 2022, Yn: Diversity. 14, 4

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