Articles

BBC Focus magazine

• The Cute Factor (April, 55-58)
• Rainforests of the Sea (February 2012, 56-61)
• Mars 500 (November, 41-43)
• Laughing Matters (August, 41-45)
• The Real X-Men (July, 68-69)
• The Future of Food (June, 44-49)
• Education 2.0 (March, 68-73)
• Love by Numbers (February 2011, 53-57)
• Smart School (October, 54-60)
• Ghosts in your Genes (September, 63-67)
• Going Viral (August, 51-55)
• The Age of the Genome (Summer, 54-59)
• Augmented Reality (July, 34-40)
• How to Live Online (June, 52-57, Should I Google my Girlfriend or Befriend my Boss?)
• The Name Game (January 2010, 39-43)
• Brain Blueprint (November, 26-32)
• The Net’s Next Big Thing (September, 34-38)
• Science of Death (July, 26-30)
• Gay Genetics (June, 37-41)
• Google vs the World (April, 31-35)
• Destruction Therapy (February, 55-59)
• Unnatural Selection (February 2009, 40-41)
• 10 Cosmic Mysteries (November 2008, 66-67)
• Dangerous Jobs in Science (July, 58-63)

Features with links are available to read online, although many only reproduce the main text.

Freelance features

• Raise Your Profile (June 2011) Men’s Health magazine
• Survive Man Flu (December 2010) Men’s Health magazine
• iPad Generation (Autumn 2010, 32-37) Ultimate Gadget Guide (Focus special issue)
• History of Birdmen (September 2009) NatGeo TV website
• The Price of Silent Mutations (June 2009, 46-53) Scientific American (with Laurence Hurst)

Peer-reviewed papers

• Hearing silence: Non-neutral evolution at synonymous sites in mammals (2006) Nature Reviews Genetics 7: 98-108
• Evidence for purifying selection against synonymous mutations in mammalian exonic splicing enhancers (2006) Molecular Biology and Evolution 23: 301-309
• Evidence for selection on synonymous mutations affecting stability of mRNA secondary structure in mammals (2005) Genome Biology 6: R75
• Biased codon usage near intron-exon junctions: Selection on splicing enhancers, splice-site recognition or something else? (2005) Trends in Genetics 21: 256-259
• Genomic regionality in rates of evolution is not explained by clustering of genes of comparable expression profile (2004) Genome Research 14: 1002-1013
• Similar rates but different modes of sequence evolution in introns and at exonic silent sites in rodents: Evidence for selectively driven codon usage. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21: 1014-1023