James P B Lloyd

Nationality: British Date of Birth: 10th September 1986

Education 2009 – 2013 PhD in Plant Sciences Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, UK Supervisor: Prof Brendan Davies 2005 – 2009 First Class BSc (Hons) in (with a year in industry) Department of Biology, , UK Supervisor: Prof Dame Ottoline Leyser FRS DBE

Research Experience 2015-2017 Post-doctoral research associate, Supervisor: Prof Steven Brenner, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Characterising the network of alternative splicing coupled NMD in humans, and identifying NMD targeting features of human transcripts using polysome data 2014 – 2015 Post-doctoral research associate, Supervisors: Prof Steven Brenner and Prof Daniel Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley. Studying the link between RNA splicing and chromatin state in Arabidopsis thaliana 2009 – 2013 PhD: ‘The characterisation of SMG1 in the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway of Physcomitrella patens’, University of Leeds, UK 2012 One month rotation analysing RNA-seq data of a moss NMD mutant with Dr Daniel Lang in the group of Prof Dr Ralf Reski, University of Freiburg, Germany 2011 Two month rotation in moss lab of Dr Jill Harrison, , UK 2008 – 2009 Undergraduate research: Genetic and hormonal regulation of shoot branching in Arabidopsis thaliana 2007 – 2008 Placement at Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) Ltd. Impact on senescence of overexpressing proteases in tobacco

Publications Paudyal, P., Roychoudhry, S. and Lloyd, J.P.B. (2017) Functions and Remodelling of Plant Peroxisomes. eLS Available online DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0001677.pub3 Zhang, Z., Liu, G., Zhou, Y., Lloyd, J.P.B., McCauley, D.W., Li, W., Gu, X., Su, Z. (2015) Genome-wide and single-base resolution DNA methylomes of the Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) Reveal Gradual Transition of the Genomic Methylation Pattern in Early Vertebrates. bioRxiv Lloyd, J.P.B. and Davies, B. (2013) SMG1 is an ancient nonsense-mediated mRNA decay effector. The Plant Journal 76:800-810 Causier B., Lloyd J., Stevens L. and Davies B. (2012) TOPLESS co-repressor interactions and their evolutionary conservation in plants. Plant Signalling and Behavior 7:325–328

Awards 2014 PhD awarded ‘Research Excellence’ status by University of Leeds, UK 2013 Winner of the Plant Centre oral presentation competition, University of Leeds, UK 2009 Sainsbury PhD Fellowship, Gatsby Charitable Foundation, UK (2-4 awarded annually) 2007 Sainsbury Undergraduate Studentship, Gatsby Charitable Foundation, UK 2006 Selected to attend the Gatsby Undergraduate Summer School, UK Conferences and Meetings 2015 Selected poster presenter at the NIH’s RNA Biology in Bethesda, MD, USA 2013 Selected speaker at Amer. Soc. Plant Biology, in Providence, RI, USA 2013 Selected speaker at the Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants Satellite meeting in Providence, RI, USA 2012 Speaker at MOSS conference in New York, USA 2012 Selected poster presenter at Science Engineering and Technology (SET) for Britain competition in the Houses of Parliament, UK 2011 Speaker at MOSS conference in Freiburg, Germany 2010 Speaker at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology International Students Workshop-2010 in Beijing, China 2010 Poster presenter at the related China-Japan Joint Symposium on Rice Morphogenesis in Beijing, China 2010 Speaker at MOSS conference in Sapporo, Japan

Teaching 2015 – 2017 Supervised undergraduate students and a PhD rotation student, UC, Berkeley, USA 2009 – 2014 Demonstrated Genetics, Microbiology and Plant Physiology practicals for undergraduates, University of Leeds, UK 2010 – 2012 Supervised lab projects of four undergraduate and two master’s students and advised on project write-ups, University of Leeds, UK

Positions of Responsibility 2015 – 2017 Review applications for post-doc positions in the Brenner research group, UC Berkeley, USA 2014 – 2015 Twice headed the search committee for a lab manager of the Brenner research group (both successful), UC Berkeley, USA 2012-Present Reviewed papers for Nucleic Acid Research, The Plant Cell, The Plant Journal and, PLoS One 2011 Student representative, Graduate School Committee, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK 2011 Co-organiser of the ‘Plantastic’ research seminar series, University of Leeds, UK 2005 – 2009 Undergraduate representative on both the Board of Studies and the Ethics committee, Biology Department, University of York, UK

Outreach Activities 2016 Assisted Zach Weinersmith of smbc-comics.com with molecular biology knowledge for an upcoming writing project 2010 – 2013 Helped run a two-day long ‘Discovery Zone’ event explaining science to 9-14 year old students, four times, University of Leeds, UK 2012 Discussed science, careers and university applications with 14-18 year olds in Withernsea High School, UK 2011 Presented at an interdisciplinary research conference (SHOWCASE2011), University of Leeds, UK