Dr Mike Green
Lecturer
Biography
Michael Green is a lecturer in Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society at the University of Chester. He delivers the teaching of various topics within this subject at undergraduate level. He is also programme lead for the MSc Medical Genetics course, and teaches many of the modules on this programme at postgraduate level. Michael has supported dissertation projects at undergraduate and post graduate level, ranging from wet lab projects, to bioinformatics projects and meta analyses.
Teaching and Supervision
Michael's teaching career started at the University of Chester in 2020. He was briefly employed as a Visiting Lecturer in the Biological Sciences department where he taught on modules including Genetics and Evolution, Animal Behaviour and Research Methods. He was also employed within the Biological Sciences department as a part-time lecturer. In 2022 Michael was emplyed as a full time lecturer in Chester Medical School. His teaching has focussed heavily on Genetics and Molecular Biology. At undergraduate level, Michael has taught clinical genetics, molecular genetics and genomics, pharmacology and cell signalling. Michael is currently module leader for three undergraduate modules and supports student dissertation projects. At the postgraduate level Michael is programme lead for MSc Medical Genetics and teaches and is module leader for Human Genetic Disease, Therapeutic Advances in Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine. Michael has also taught Biostatistics at postgraduate level and supports student dissertation projects.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Dr Green's research focuses on non-genetic inheritance, epigenetics and behavioural neuroscience. He primarily focusses on using animal models to investigate the effects of the environment on the epigenetic makeup of organisms. Dr Green's research to date has focussed heavily on parental effects, where he has explored how non-genetic and epigenetic factors may be inherited from both mothers and fathers and influence offspring development. Another focus of Dr Green's work lies in the field of behavioural neuroscience, where he has investigated the role of neuropeptides such as isotocin and arginine vasotocin in behavioural traits. His previous work has quantified the gene expression levels of these peptides in zebrafish brain tissue.