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The Institute of Applied Health Sciences

Professor Alex Douglas

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Professor Alex Douglas
Professor Alex Douglas
Professor Alex Douglas

Personal Chair

Accepting PhDs

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Email Address
a.douglas@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272873
Office Address
411 Zoology Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Tillydrone Avenue
AB24 2TZ

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School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition



Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Member of Biostatistics and Health Data Sciences
External Memberships
  • Member of
  • Academic advisor
  • Fellow of the
  • Research Assessor for the

Prizes and Awards

51cg Excellence Awards - Best Taught Postgraduate lecturer 2017

Research

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences, Nutrition and Health, Biomedical Sciences, Applied Health Sciences.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Biological and Environmental Sciences

  • Supervising
  • Accepting PhDs
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Nutrition and Health

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Biomedical Sciences

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Applied Health Sciences

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Research Specialisms

  • Applied Statistics
  • Statistical Modelling
  • Bioinformatics
  • Medical Statistics
  • Statistics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.

Funding and Grants

2021 -2022

Artificial intelligence approaches to improve diagnosis of gill disease in Atlantic salmon (AIGD). SAIC & The DataLab, £44K.

Professor Sam Martin (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2020 - 2022

Spatial and temporal drivers of gill pathology in Atlantic Salmon. SAIC, £160K.

Professor Sam Martin (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2017 - 2020

Assessing harbour deepening on bottlenose dolphins in Charleston. South Carolina Aquarium, £80K.

Professor David Lusseau (DBT), Dr Alex Douglas, Dr Dorian Houser (National Marine Mammal Foundation, USA), Dr Patricia Fair (USDOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS, USA).

2017 - 2021

The role of hypothalmic neuropeptide network in regulating tissues sizes in response to diet energy content and composition. BBSRC, £550K.

Professor John Speakman (UoA and Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2017 - 2019

Clinical nutrition and the treatment of Atlantic salmon gill diseases. SAIC, £284K.

Professor Sam Martin (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2017 - 2018

A collaborative feasibility study of the use of eDNA for ecosystem monitoring. Scottish Government, £12K

Dr Alex Douglas and Dr Iveta Matejusova (MSS).

2016 - 2019

Piezophillic adaptationin deep sea amphipods. NERC. £421K.

Professor Stu Piertney (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2015 - 2018

The genomic landscape of adaptive radiation in the Jaera albifrons species complex . NERC. £340K.

Professor Stu Piertney (UoA) and Dr Alex Douglas.

2015 - 2017

Gut health and immune function: the emerging role of gut microbiota in sustainable aquaculture. BBSRC-NERC, £212K.

Professor Sam Martin (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas, Dr Petra Lewis (UoA), Dr Daniel Merrifield (University of Plymouth),   Dr Rachel Lawrence (Royal Veterinary College), Professor Douglas Tocher (University of Stirling), Professor Simon Davies(University of Plymouth).

2015 - 2016

The health black box in PCOD. Understanding the onset of health impacts caused by disturbances. ONR, £260K.

Dr David Lusseau (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas, Professor John Speakman (UoA and Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dr Dorian Houser (National Marine Mammal Foundation, USA), Dr Patricia Fair (USDOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS, USA), Mark Styczynski (Georgia Institute of Technolofy, USA).

2015- 2018

Explaining niche separation in tropical forests: feedbacks between root-fungal symbioses and soil phosphorus partitioning . NERC. £521K.

Professor David Burslem  (UoA), Professor David Johnson (UoA), Dr Andy Taylor (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas.

2013 - 2016

Genome-wide association mapping and landscape scale modelling of heritable ionomic diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana populations. BBSRC. £605K

Professor David Salt (UoA), Dr Alex Douglas, Professor Pete Smith (UoA).

2013 - 2016

The human fetal liver: development and response to maternal drug use. MRC, £600K,

Professor P. Fowler (UoA),  Dr Alex Douglas (UoA),  Dr David Hay (University of Edinburgh), Professor John Iredale (University of Edinburgh),  Professor P.O’shaughnessy (University of Glasgow).

 

 

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

I am Programme Coordinator for PGR Quantitative Research and Skills in the School of Biological Sciences with overall responsibility for the strategic direction, curricula development, coordination and provision of statistics teaching and training for the postgraduate community. 

I also coordinate and teach multiple courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in the field, in the classroom and also online. Currently I teach on:

 

Undergraduate

BI29Z3 'Biodiversity Field Course'

Postgraduate Taught

MSc BI5009 'Experimental Design and Analysis' (course coordinator)

MSc BI5010 'Statistics for Complex Study designs' (course coordinator)

Postgraduate Research

QUADRAT and SUPER NERC DTPs 'An Introduction to R for biologists' (course coordinator)

QUADRAT NERC DTP 'An Introduction to Linear Modelling Using R' (course coordinator)

PGR 'An Introduction to R' (course coordinator)

PGR 'An Introduction to Statistical Modelling in R' (course coordinator)

PGR ' An Introduction to Generalised Linear Modelling using R' (course coordinator)

 

Previous Teaching

UG BI3010 'Statistical Analysis of Biological Data' (course coordinator)

MSc BI5505 'Introduction to Bayesian Inference' (course coordinator)

MSc ZO5304 'Population and Community Ecology'

 

I have also written a free open access book which introduces researchers to using R for robust and reproducible research.

Non-course Teaching Responsibilities

I am a personal tutor for 16 undergraduate students

Publications

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  • Genetic loci regulating cadmium content in rice grains

    Norton, G., Travis, A., Ruangareerate, P., Nicol, G. W., Adeosun, A. A., Hossain, M., Islam, R., Douglas, A., Price, A. H.
    Euphytica, vol. 217, no. 3, 35
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  • Effects of dietary macronutrients and body composition on glucose homeostasis in mice

    Hu, S., Togo, J., Wang, L., Wu, Y., Yang, D., Xu, Y., Li, L., Li, B., Li, M., Li, J., Wang, G., Zhang, X., Niu, C., Mazidi, M., Douglas, A., Speakman, J. R.
    National Science Review, vol. 8, no. 1, nwaa177
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  • Comparative genomics of cetartiodactyla: energy metabolism underpins the transition to an aquatic lifestyle

    Derous, D., Sahu, J., Douglas, A., Lusseau, D., Wenzel, M.
    Conservation Physiology, vol. 9, no. 1, coaa136
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  • Plasma proteome responses in salmonid fish following immunization

    Bakke, F. K., Monte, M. M., Stead, D. A., Causey, D. R., Douglas, A., Macqueen, D. J., Dooley, H.
    Frontiers in Immunology, vol. 11, pp. 1-20
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  • Integration of Transcriptome, Gross Morphology and Histopathology in the Gill of Sea Farmed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar): Lessons from Multi-site Sampling

    Krol, E., Noguera, P., Shaw, S., Costelloe, E., Gajardo, K., Valdenegro, V., Bickerdike, R., Douglas, A., Martin, S. A. M.
    Frontiers in Genetics, vol. 11, 610
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  • The effects of graded levels of calorie restriction XV: phase space attractors reveal distinct behavioral phenotypes

    Sun, D., Liu, F., Mitchell, S. E., Ma, H., Derous, D., Wang, Y., Han, J. J., Daniel E.L., P., Lusseau, D., Douglas, A., Speakman, J. R., Chen, L.
    The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol. 75, no. 5, pp. 858-866
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  • The carbohydrate-insulin model does not explain the impact of varying dietary macronutrients on the body weight and adiposity of mice

    Hu, S., Wang, L., Togo, J., Yang, D., Xu, Y., Wu, Y., Douglas, A., Speakman, J. R.
    Molecular Metabolism, vol. 32, pp. 27-43
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  • The Effects of Graded Levels of Calorie Restriction: XIV. Global Metabolomics Screen Reveals Brown Adipose Tissue Changes in Amino Acids, Catecholamines, and Antioxidants After Short-Term Restriction in C57BL/6 Mice

    Green, C. L., Mitchell, S. E., Derous, D., Wang, Y., Chen, L., Han, J. J., Promislow, D. E. L., Lusseau, D., Douglas, A., Speakman, J. R.
    The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 218-229
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  • Fetal androgen exposure is a determinant of adult male metabolic health

    Siemienowicz, K., Filis, P., Shaw, S., Douglas, A., Thomas, J., Mulroy, S., Howie, F., Fowler, P. A., Duncan, W. C., Rae, M. T.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 20195
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  • Genome-wide Associations Reveal Human-Mouse Genetic Convergence and Modifiers of Myogenesis, CPNE1 and STC2

    Hernandez Cordero, A. I., Gonzales, N. M., Parker, C. C., Sokoloff, G., Vandenbergh, D. J., Cheng, R., Abney, M., Sko, A., Douglas, A., Palmer, A. A., Gregory, J. S., Lionikas, A.
    American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 105, no. 6, pp. 1222-1236
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