My DPhil at the Oxford Bee Lab was in collaboration with RBG Kew and DTU Biosustain, which allowed me to combine chemical ecology and synthetic biology to study the role of sterols in bee nutrition. I am now doing a postdoc in synthetic genomics at TU Delft.
Publications
Moore E, De Sousa RT, Arnesen JA, Dyekjær JD, Farman DI, Felsinger S, Gonçalves RFS, Stevenson PC, Borodina I, Wright GA. Essential sterols from engineered yeast prevent honeybee colony population decline. Nature 2025
Baker E, Lamborn E, Quinonez J, Karlsdottir S, Sheppard A, Moore E, Kunin W, Wright GA; Stevenson PC. Pollen sterols are highly diverse but phylogenetically conserved. New Phytologist 2025
Zu P, Koch H, Schwery O, Pironon S, Phillips C, Ondo I, Farrell IW, Nes WD, Moore E, Wright GA, Farman DI, Stevenson PC. Pollen sterols are associated with phylogeny and environment but not with pollinator guilds. New Phytologist 2021
