Dr Michael Green

Lecturer

Chester Medical School
michael.green@chester.ac.uk
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Michael is a lecturer in Genetics at Chester Medical School. He has expertise in transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, behavioural neuroscience, statistics and bioinformatics.

Michael obtained his undergraduate degree in Genetics from the University of Liverpool in 2015. He briefly worked in industry for Thermo Fisher Scientific before starting his Ph.D. at Liverpool John Moores University in 2016. Michael’s research has focussed on investigating mechanisms of non-genetic inheritance, this involved the use zebrafish as a neurobehavioural model to investigate the non-genetic inheritance of acquired behaviours.

Michael first joined the University of Chester shortly before completing his Ph.D. in 2020. His first role within the university was as a Technician/Demonstrator in the School of Biological Science. Since then, he has also had roles as a visiting lecturer and part time lecturer within Biological Sciences. His previous taught subjects include research methods, genetics, and statistics. He has recently joined Chester Medical School as a full-time lecturer in 2022.

Michael’s teaching roles within the university are as:

  • Programme Leader – MSc Medical Genetics
  • Module Leader – Clinical Genetics
  • Module Leader – Human Genetic Disease

He also teaches on:

  • Introduction to Genetics
  • Molecular Genetics and Genomics 
  • Dissertation 

Michael’s research is focussed on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and other forms of non-genetic inheritance.

He has investigated both maternally and paternally mediated non-genetic inheritance in different model organisms, however the majority of his research has utilised zebrafish as a model organism. He uses zebrafish primarily as a neurobehavioural model to investigate the neural circuitry of behaviour.

As part of his doctoral work Michael wrote an analysis pipeline for the quantification of animal behaviour from automated AI-based tracking technologies. This work directly led to another of Michael’s research interests, which is the use of AI for the study of animal behaviour.

Morris, A., Green, M., Martin, H., Crossland, K., Swaney, W. T., Williamson, S. M., & Rae, R. (2018). A nematode that can manipulate the behaviour of slugs. Behavioural Processes, 151, 73–80.

Green, M. & Swaney, W. T. (2022). Interacting effects on environmental enrichment across multiple generations on early life phenotypes in zebrafish. (In Review)

  • BSc(Hons) Genetics
  • Ph.D. Biology