Dr Alice Baynes
Divisional Lead / Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences

Topics

• Aquatic pollution
• Investigations into the impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals on aquatic organisms 
• Comparative endocrinology
• Developmental mechanisms in molluscs

Research supervision

Doctoral research

First supervisor

Eghosa Maurice Imiuwa (2021-2024 Nigerian TETfund) 'Impacts of anti-depressant drugs on Biomphalaria glabrata' Awarded

Konstantinos Panagiotidis (2020-2024 NERC London DTP): ‘Effects of environmental pollution on Molluscan endocrinology’ Awarded 

Dr. Georgina Fauconier (nee Collins) (2019-2022 NERC London DTP): ‘A ‘new’ microsporidian in the UK: Investigations into a formerly unknown microsporidian infecting juvenile European Smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) from the River Thames’. Awarded.

Dr. Nicola Beresford (Part-time 2013-2021): ‘oestrogens and anti-androgens in the aquatic environment and their effects on fish’. Awarded.

Second supervisor

Wendy Areiza (2023-2027 NERC London DTP) ‘Determination of lipid dysregulation by per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances in aquatic macroinvertebrates’.

Dr. Christopher Green (2011-2014 Defra) ‘Assessing the roles of anti-androgenic and oestrogenic mixtures on endocrine disruption in fish’. Awarded.

PhD External Co-supervisor 

Lucy Wright (2024- NERC QUADRAT) ‘Neuroendocrine disruption in marine shellfish: uncovering cellular and developmental mechanisms of action using a sentinel bioindicator species’ – First supervisor Dr Victoria Sleight, University of Aberdeen.

Saltana Parvin (2023- DFG Germany) ‘Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms that generate a remarkable open coil “banana” shell phenotype in Lymnaea stagnalis’ - First supervisor Prof Dan Jackson, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany.

PhD Research Development Advisor (Brunel)

Ushemegbe Rita Ekhareafo (2022- NERC London DTP) ‘Environmental Assessment of Chemical Contamination from Abandoned Coal and Mineral Mines: A multidisciplinary approach’ Supervised by Prof Rakesh Kanda (Brunel) and Dr Olwenn Martin (UCL)

Marta Straszkiewicz (2020- Brunel staff member - part-time) ‘Occurrence and Fate of Household chemicals in domestic wastewater’. Supervised by Prof Rakesh Kanda and Dr Tom Miller.