Title: Assistant Professor

Education:

Ph.D. in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Reading, UK, 2004
B.Sc. in Botany and Zoology, University of Reading, UK, 2000

Areas of Specialty: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, and Palaeo-embryology and Taphonomy

Research Interests: Evolution of animals and Phyla using paleontological and evo-devo approaches. I am also interested in Taphonomy (the process by which organisms end up in the fossil record) and the biases that are inherent in it.

Recent Publications:  

Scott, A.C., Galtier J, Gostling NJ, Smith SY, Collinson ME, Stampanoni M, Marone F, Donoghue PC, Bengtson S. (2009) Scanning electron microscopy and synchrotron radiation x-ray tomographic microscopy of 330 million year old charcoalified seed fern fertile organs. Microsc Microanal 15(2):166-73.

Gostling, N. J., Dong, X. and Donoghue P. C. J.  (2008) Ontogeny and taphonomy: an experimental taphonomy study of the development of the brine shrimp Artemia salina. Palaeontology 52(1): 169-186.

Gostling, N. J., Thomas, C.-W., Greenwood, J. M., Dong, X.-P., Bengtson, S., Raff, E. A., Raff, R. A., Degnan, B. A., Stampanoni, M. and Donoghue P. C. J. (2008) Deciphering the fossil record of early bilaterian development in the light of experimental taphonomy. Evolution and Development 10 (3) 339-349.

Gostling, N. J., Donoghue, P.C. J. and Bengtson, S. (2007) The earliest fossil embryos begin to mature. Evolution and Development 9(3):206-7.

Hagadorn, J. W., Xiao, S., Donoghue, P. C. J., Bengtson, S., Gostling, N. J., Pawlowska, M., Raff, E. C., Raff, R. A., Turner, F. R., Yin, C., Zhou, C., McFeely, M. B., Stampanoni, M. and Nealson, K. H. (2006) Cellular and subcellular structure of Neoproterozoic animal embryos, Science 314:291-294.

Donoghue, P. C. J., Bengtson, S., Dong, X., Gostling, N. J., Huldtgren, T., Cunningham, J. A., Yin, C., Yue, Z., Fan, P. and Stampanoni, M. (2006) Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos, Nature 442: 680-683.

Donoghue, P. C. J., Gostling, N. J., Bengtson, S., Huldtgren, T., Dong, X., Peng, F. and Stampanoni, M. (2006) Swiss light shed on the nature of fossilised embryos from the dawn of animal evolution, PSI Scientific Report 2005. Volume 1: Condensed matter, photons, neutrons and charged particles. pp. 10-11.

Gostling, N. J. and Shimeld, S.M. (2003) Protochordate Zic genes define primitive somite compartments and highlight molecular changes underlying neural crest evolution, Evolution and Development 5(2):136-144.

Gostling, N. J. (2003) Book review, "Evolutionary developmental biology of the cerebral cortex', BSDB Newsletter, 24(1):15.

Gostling, N. J. (2002) Book review, "From DNA to Diversity: molecular genetics, and the evolution of animal design", Heredity, 89:144.