Author Profile

Alistair P. McGregor is a Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He helped coordinate the sequencing and analysis of the genome of the house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum in collaboration with the SpiderWeb consortium and Baylor College of Medicine, as part of the i5K initiative to sequence a wider range of arthropod genomes. His research program investigates the development, genomics and evolution of spiders, flies and other arthropods.