**Uni email:** [christophe.patterson\@durham.ac.uk](mailto:[email protected]) **Personal email** : [christophepatterson\@outlook.com](mailto:[email protected]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ### Personal Profile A PhD student with a passion for exploration and education. Has a keen interest in studying the impacts of humans actions, including climate change, on biodiversity and species geographic ranges. Interested in furthering their experience in next generation sequencing, fieldwork, scientific literacy, and communication. Has developed the key skills needed for teamwork and effective organisation across a diverse range of jobs and voluntary work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Education ## **Durham University**: 2020 to Present #### **PhD - Durham Doctoral Studentship** - How does behavioural interactions between species impact range dynamics? - Systematic literature review, landscape genomics, and de novo draft genome for *Hetaerina titia*. - Eight weeks training at the NERC Environmental Omics Facility. - Tropical fieldwork in Mexico, surveying, collecting, photographing, and running behavioural experiments, on damselflies. - Bioinformatics using a high-powered computer on the command line bioinformatics from, raw sequence data, to demultiplexing, to population genetics. ## **University of Exeter (Penryn Campus)**: 2015 to 2020 #### **Master by Research in Biological sciences** - Research degree investigating the range expansion of a species of hermit crab to the UK. - Field work in the UK and France followed by DNA extraction, sequencing, and analysis of population genetics, phylogeography, and larval dispersal models. Published in Marine Biology ### **Bachelor of Science with Honours in Evolutionary Biology: First Class** 2015 to 2018 - First Class Honours degree - Awarded the Sir Geoffrey Holland Prize for academic excellence within a field related to Cornwall. #### **University of California, Berkeley:** July to August 2017 Awarded a bursary to fund six weeks study abroad in Berkeley, California. #### **Prince Henry's Grammar School & Sixth Form:** 2007 to 2015 A Levels in Biology (A), Art (A), and Physics (B), with AS Level Mathematics (C). 12 GCSEs; 4 A\*s in Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Art, A in Mathematics, 5 Bs including Further Mathematics and English Language. 2 Cs and 1 D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ### Publications **Patterson C** and Drury J. [[Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics - current insights and future directions]] *Biological Reviews* 2023 **Patterson C**, Laing C, Early R. [[The range expansion of Clibanarius erythropus to the UK suggests that other range-shifting intertidal species may not follow]] *Marine Biology* 2022 Sanders D, Frago E, Kehoe R, **Patterson C**, and Gaston KJ. . [[A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night]] *Nature Ecology & Evolution* 2021 **Patterson C**, Slater M, Early R, Laing C. [[The status of Clibanarius erythropus after a recent range expansion to Great Britain, with the highest latitude recording of a gravid individual]] *Marine Biology Records.* 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ### Awards and Grants - **Durham Doctoral Studentship** Durham University, Oct 2020 – March 2024 - £68,250 - **Sir Geoffrey Holland Prize for academic excellence within a field related to Cornwall** University of Exeter, 2018- £500 - **Heredity Fieldwork Grant** Genetics society, 2018 - £1500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## Previous/Current Employment and Voluntary Work ### **Director, The Rockpool Project:** July 2018 to present - Director for the not-for-profit community interest company aiming to educate and engage the public and conserve rock pool wildlife in the UK. - Building, developing, and running a new citizen science biodiversity survey. - Co-host of the six week course “Introduction to rock pooling” an online lecture series. - Additional full time six-week paid internship (June – July 2020) - Stared in Milkshake! Monkey’s amazing adventures [S2:E2 Rock-Pooling]([S2:E2 Rock-Pooling](https://www.my5.tv/milkshake-monkey-s-amazing-adventures/season-2/rock-pooling)) which aired on Channel 5 in August 2021. <center> <i>We had a wonderful private family rock pool adventure with rock pool expert Christophe. We can't thank you enough for such an enjoyable and informative hour and a half. He was passionate about the sea and all its creatures and is a wealth of knowledge. Our kids absolutely love[ed] it and we left knowing a lot more than we ever did before about the different types of creatures on our coastline. Would highly recommend</i></center> **Artificial light at night - Meta-analysis, University of Exeter:** June 2018 to December 2018 - Survey of all scientific literature on the topic of ALAN and its impact of ecosystem community and composition, species’ abundance and health, and individual animal’s physiology and behaviour. - Data extraction, summarising literature for others, and handling large volumes of data in excel and R. Publshed in _Nature Ecology and Evolution_. ### **FXU Expedition Society:** November 2015 to June 2018 - Organising outdoor events requiring multiple steps, including risk assessments, budgeting, itineraries, and leadership skills, such as delegating and working in a team with other committee members. - High level of responsibility in the field due to highly changeable environments and many potential hazards. - Experience leading groups of up to 49 people across Dartmoor, Bodmin moor, the National Three Peaks Challenge (completed in 27.5h), the SW coastal path, and many other landscapes. - Nominated for Non-competitive sport society of the year 2016/17 - **President** : April 2016 to April 2017 - **Multi-Day Excursion Officer:** April 2017 to April 2018 - **Walks officer** : November 2015 to April 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## Teaching, Mentorship, and Services ### **Graduate Liaison Committee and PGR Board of studies representative** 2020 to present - Member of the graduate liaison committee and PGR representative on the department wide Board of Studies; listening to, aggregating, and providing feedback from follow PGRs to improve the experience of PhD students within the Bioscience department. ### **Graduate Teaching Assistant** - Durham University & University of Exeter 2018 to present - Demonstrating and marking undergraduate and taught masters. Including Behavioural Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Research Skills, Analysis of Biological Data (with additional responsibility running highly attended after-hours statistics drop in help sessions), Introduction to Invertebrates, and Key Skills in Biology. PGR Maths and Stats tutor providing 1:1 statistics and R coding guidance for third year dissertations. - Designed and ran of two PGR Masterclasses for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates. (1) 'Is a PhD right for you?' -- mentorship and guidance for prospective PGRs. (2) 'My first genome' -- Introduction to command line bioinformatics. ### **Undergraduate Summer School Mentor, British Ecological Society** July 2021/22 - Leading role as a mentor for a week long summer school for undergraduate students studying ecology. - Supporting and guiding a personal mentor group through the week and providing wider educational and career advice to the whole cohort. - Planned and presented workshop to provide an introduction to R ([[Lowering the baR - Introduction to R]]), hosted multiple wildlife walks, and shadowed bat, moth, and meadow monitoring sessions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## Skills and Other Qualifications ### **Outdoor First Aid - Basic --Cornwall First Aid:** Certificate valid until July 2022 One day course covering the basic essentials required to provide emergency care to a casualty. Received training in a range of first aid skills including: The ability to act safely and effectively when an accident or emergency occurs, the treatment and priorities of care for an unconscious casualty, the recognition of cardiac arrest and delivery of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), and to recognise and safely treat a casualty who is choking and/or bleeding. ### **IT-skills** Strong experience with R and RStudio, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Confident use of command line and Slurm workload manger. Bioinformatics tools - adegenet, bcftools, beast, Blobtools2, busco, bwa, Hifiasm, LEA. RAxML, mitohifi, PAUP, stacks, vcfR. and more. Experience with Python, Adobe Acrobat DC, Matlab, GIS, Adobe After-effects, Paint.net, and Audacity. ### **Navigation, Outdoor and Mountain Experience Airienteers Jan 1996 to present** Organising and competing in numerous orienteering events in urban and rural areas. Complete confidence in map navigation and compass use. Knowledge and experience of multiple environmental hazards and the appropriate actions to minimise risk. Long-time and tested experience kayaking, canoeing, climbing, skiing, fellrunning, surfing and sailing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## Other Information Outside of university and work I enjoy a variety of extreme sports, such as hiking, climbing (I recently summited the 11,000ft alpine peak, the Aiguille de Dibona), skiing, white water canoeing, orienteering (a member of Airienteers), surfing, and sailing as well as more traditional sports such as hockey and football. I have also taught myself the guitar for over 5 years and have performed at multiple open mic nights. My passions include live music events and learning more about the world around me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## References **Dr Regan Early** Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology, Daphne du Maurier Building, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE Email: [r.early\@exeter.ac.uk](mailto:[email protected]) Tel: +44 (0)1326 259289 **Dr Jonathan Drury** Associate Professor in the Department of Biosciences, Biosciences, Durham University, Stockton Rd, Durham DH1 3LE Email: [jonathan.p.drury\@durham.ac.uk](mailto:[email protected]) Tel +44 (0) 191 33 41348