Title: Assistant Professor

Education:

Ph.D. in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Reading, UK, 2004
B.Sc. in Botany and Zoology, University of Reading, UK, 2000

Areas of Specialty: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, and Palaeo-embryology and Taphonomy

Research Interests: Evolution of animals and Phyla using paleontological and evo-devo approaches. I am also interested in Taphonomy (the process by which organisms end up in the fossil record) and the biases that are inherent in it.

Recent Publications:  

Gostling, N. J., Dong, X. and Donoghue P. C. J.  (in press) Ontogeny and taphonomy: an experimental taphonomy study of the development of the brine shrimp Artemia salina. Palaeontology.

Gostling, N. J., Donoghue, P.C. J. and Bengtson, S. (in Press) The earliest fossil embryos begin to mature, Evolution and Development.  

Gostling, N. J., Thomas, C.-W., Greenwood, J. M., Dong, X.-P., Bengtson, S., Raff, E. A., Raff, R. A., Degnan, B. A., Stampanoni, M. and Donoghue P. C. J. (2008) Deciphering the fossil record of early bilaterian development in the light of experimental taphonomy. Evolution and Development 10 (3) 339-349.

Hagadorn, J. W., Xiao, S., Donoghue, P. C. J., Bengtson, S., Gostling, N. J., Pawlowska, M., Raff, E. C., Raff, R. A., Turner, F. R., Yin, C., Zhou, C., McFeely, M. B., Stampanoni, M. and Nealson, K. H. (2006) Cellular and subcellular structure of Neoproterozoic animal embryos, Science 314:291-294.

Donoghue, P. C. J., Bengtson, S., Dong, X., Gostling, N. J., Huldtgren, T., Cunningham, J. A., Yin, C., Yue, Z., Fan, P. and Stampanoni, M. (2006) Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos, Nature 442: 680-683.

Donoghue, P. C. J., Gostling, N. J., Bengtson, S., Huldtgren, T., Dong, X., Peng, F. and Stampanoni, M. (2006) Swiss light shed on the nature of fossilised embryos from the dawn of animal evolution, PSI Scientific Report 2005. Volume 1: Condensed matter, photons, neutrons and charged particles. pp. 10-11.

Gostling, N. J. and Shimeld, S.M. (2003) Protochordate Zic genes define primitive somite compartments and highlight molecular changes underlying neural crest evolution, Evolution and Development 5(2):136-144.

Gostling, N. J. (2003) Book review, "Evolutionary developmental biology of the cerebral cortex', BSDB Newsletter, 24(1):15.

Gostling, N. J. (2002) Book review, "From DNA to Diversity: molecular genetics, and the evolution of animal design", Heredity, 89:144.