Dr. H.L. Fletcher
Lecturer in Biology
PhD. Cytogenetics, 1976;
University of East Anglia.
-------------------------------------------
Contact InformationTel: +44 (0)28 9097 2084 (Direct line)
Fax: +44 (0)28 9097 5877
Email: h.fletcher@qub.ac.uk
Room: Medical Biology Centre - 113
Administrative Responsibilities
Advisor of studies; helping students through the pitfalls of undergraduate academic life
Module coordinator for L1 Genetics and Molecular Biology and L2 Genetic systems (The similarities and differences between microbes and humans).Research Interests
Meiosis and recombination, and their effects at all levels, from surviving a nuclear holocaust to the evolutionary relationships of the sex lives of liver fluke.
Teaching interests
Subject: Real genetics, how our genes affect us and how much.
Practice: Developing models to teach the incomprehensible to the unprepared.
Meiosis: A functional hands-on paper and sellotape model of meiosis from DNA synthesis through chiama to telophase II, Blue Peter style.
Babydrive: A game based on a beetledrive to teach diploid inheritance and especially dominance and epistasis. Chromosome cards are dealt carrying 'genetic' instructions, students draw the resulting creatures.
Other information
Ireland regional representative on Genetics Society comittee Supporter of GM Devising hands-on teaching models for genetics Thinking about teaching - What do students know, need to know, think they know or think they need to know? - How should one teach a mixed ability class of 180? Part author of textbook 'Instant Notes in Genetics' Editions 1 and 2, published in several languages Occasional appearances in press and media.
