Victoria Sleight
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Victoria Sleight
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Research interests
I’m interested in how life works. I get a mechanistic understanding of how biological molecules fit together into pathways, from genes to proteins, and then try to build-up the picture to the whole organism level. My research aims to understand how Antarctic and temperate clams build their shells using a multidisciplinary approach (transcriptomics, qPCR, in situ hybridisation, immunology, physiology, field work and experimentation).
I’m passionate about open-access science, communication and collaboration.
Pre – BAS PhD Publications:
Woodall, L. C., Sanchez-Vidal A. , Canals M. , Paterson G. L. J., Coppock R. , Sleight V. A., Calafat A., Rogers A. D. , Narayanaswamy B. E. , and Thompson R. C. , (2014). The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris. Royal Society Open Science. 1, 4. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140317
Readman J. W., DeLuna F., Ebinghaus R., Guzman A. N., Price, A. R. G., Readman,E. A., Sheppard, A. L. S., Sleight V. A., Sturm R., Thompson R. C., Tonkin A., Wolschke H., Wright R. J., and Sheppard C. R. C,. (2013). Contaminants, Pollution and Potential Anthropogenic Impacts in Chagos/BIOT. Coral Reefs of the World. 4, 283–98.DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5965-7_21
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2022
Cavallo, Alessandro ORCID record for Alessandro Cavallo, Clark, Melody S. ORCID record for Melody S. Clark, Peck, Lloyd S. ORCID record for Lloyd S. Peck, Harper, Elizabeth M., Sleight, Victoria ORCID record for Victoria Sleight. (2022) Evolutionary conservation and divergence of the transcriptional regulation of bivalve shell secretion across life history stages. Royal Society Open Science, 9. 11 pp. 10.1098/rsos.221022
2020
Ramsøe, Abigail, Clark, Melody S. ORCID record for Melody S. Clark, Sleight, Victoria A. ORCID record for Victoria A. Sleight. (2020) Gene network analyses support subfunctionalization hypothesis for duplicated hsp70 genes in the Antarctic clam. Cell Stress and Chaperones, 25. 1111-1116. 10.1007/s12192-020-01118-9
Sleight, Victoria ORCID record for Victoria Sleight, Antczak, Philipp, Falciani, Francesco, Clark, Melody S. ORCID record for Melody S. Clark. (2020) Computationally Predicted Gene Regulatory Networks in Molluscan Biomineralisation Identify Extracellular Matrix Production and Ion Transportation Pathways. Bioinformatics, 36. 1326-1332. 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz754
2018
Sleight, Victoria A. ORCID record for Victoria A. Sleight, Peck, Lloyd S. ORCID record for Lloyd S. Peck, Dyrynda, Elisabeth A., Smith, Valerie J., Clark, Melody S. ORCID record for Melody S. Clark. (2018) Cellular stress responses to chronic heat shock and shell damage in temperate Mya truncata. Cell Stress and Chaperones, 23. 1003-1017. 10.1007/s12192-018-0910-5
2017
Sleight, Victoria Anne ORCID record for Victoria Anne Sleight. (2017) The molluscan shell secretome: unlocking calcium pathways in a changing world. Heriot Watt University, PhD thesis
Sleight, Victoria A. ORCID record for Victoria A. Sleight, Bakir, Adil, Thompson, Richard C., Henry, Theodore B.. (2017) Assessment of microplastic-sorbed contaminant bioavailability through analysis of biomarker gene expression in larval zebrafish. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 116. 291-297. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.12.055
Arivalagan, Jaison, Yarra, Tejaswi, Marie, Benjamin, Sleight, Victoria A. ORCID record for Victoria A. Sleight, Duvernois-Berthet, Evelyne, Clark, Melody S. ORCID record for Melody S. Clark, Marie, Arul, Berland, Sophie. (2017) Insights from the shell proteome: biomineralization to adaptation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34. 66-77. doi:10.1093/molbev/msw219
2016
Sleight, Victoria A. ORCID record for Victoria A. Sleight, Marie, Benjamin, Jackson, Daniel J., Dyrynda, Elizabeth A., Marie, Arul, Clark, Melody S. ORCID record for Melody S. Clark. (2016) An Antarctic molluscan biomineralisation tool-kit. Scientific Reports, 6. 13 pp. 10.1038/srep36978
Arivalagan, Jaison, Marie, Benjamin, Sleight, Victoria A. ORCID record for Victoria A. Sleight, Clark, Melody S. ORCID record for Melody S. Clark, Berland, Sophie, Marie, Arul. (2016) Shell matrix proteins of the clam, Mya truncata: Roles beyond shell formation through proteomic study. Marine Genomics, 27. 69-74. doi:10.1016/j.margen.2016.03.005
Sleight, Victoria A. ORCID record for Victoria A. Sleight, Thorne, Michael A.S. ORCID record for Michael A.S. Thorne, Peck, Lloyd S. ORCID record for Lloyd S. Peck, Arivalagan, Jaison, Berland, Sophie, Marie, Arul, Clark, Melody S. ORCID record for Melody S. Clark. (2016) Characterisation of the mantle transcriptome and biomineralisation genes in the blunt-gaper clam, Mya truncata. Marine Genomics, 27. 47-55. doi:10.1016/j.margen.2016.01.003
2015
Sleight, Victoria ORCID record for Victoria Sleight, Thorne, Michael ORCID record for Michael Thorne, Peck, Lloyd ORCID record for Lloyd Peck, Clark, Melody ORCID record for Melody Clark. (2015) Transcriptomic response to shell damage in the Antarctic clam, Laternula elliptica: time scales and spatial localisation. Marine Genomics, 20. 45-55. 10.1016/j.margen.2015.01.009
Sleight, Victoria ORCID record for Victoria Sleight. (2015) Educating scientists with Plymouth University. The Plymouth Student Scientist, 8. 1-3.
2015
ARCTIC BLOG: Life on ice in the High Arctic
Blog 10 September, 2015
2016
New study puts shells under spotlight
News 11 November, 2016