Hello! I’m Amanda, I’m a 3rd year Natural Sciences student who focuses mostly on ecology, using bioinformatics to find relationships between environmental factors and animal behaviour, especially in marine environments and with a seascape framework.

However, I started out being more interested in genetics and evolution, and especially in how animals’ body plans evolved and developed, and how by simply following a set of local rules, undifferentiated cells could develop into such complex morphologies, and “endless forms most beautiful”. I hope that with this module I can explore this side of my interests while also adding context to my current ones.