• 1997 to 1998: postdoctoral research at the Institute of Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany, in the laboratory of Michael Brand.
  
• research on the role of the midbrain-hindbrain boundary in zebrafish embryonic development
• 1994-1997: PhD research at the University of Reading, in the lab of Peter Holland. Thesis title: Gene duplication in vertebrate evolution (available from Ethos at the British Library).

See the Training and qualifications page for more details of my doctoral research and first degree.

Publications

I have published the following academic research papers:

• An amphioxus Msx gene expressed predominantly in the dorsal neural tube. AC Sharman, SM Shimeld, PWH Holland. Development genes and evolution 1999, 209 (4), 260-263.
• Estimation of Hox gene cluster number in lampreys. AC Sharman, PW Holland. The International journal of developmental biology 1998, 42 (4), 617.
• Cloning and analysis of an HMG gene from the lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis: gene duplication in vertebrate evolution. AC Sharman, A Hay-Schmidt, PWH Holland. Gene 1997, 184 (1), 99-105.

I have published the following review and comment articles:

• Some new terms for duplicated genes. AC Sharman. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 1999, 10 (5), 561-563.
• Evolution and homology of the nervous system: cross-phylum rescues of otd/Otx genes. AC Sharman, M Brand. Trends in genetics: Trends In Genetics 1998, 14 (6), 211.
• Conservation, duplication, and divergence of developmental genes during chordate evolution. AC Sharman, PWH Holland. Netherlands Journal of Zoology 1995, 46 1 (2), 47-67.