Dr Océane Seudre

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Queen Mary University of London

o.seudre@qmul.ac.uk

Member of Dr Vicencio Oostra's Research Group

Funder:	MRC Medical Research Council
Project:	Future Leadership Fellowship: Testing how developmental pathways can predict evolutionary adaptation to climate change-GRANT TRANSFER

Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Genomics

Research

Evolutionary biology, Comparative genomics, Epigenetics, Devolopmental biology, Phenotypic plasticity, Climate change

Interests

I am an evolutionary and developmental biologist investigating the genomic and epigenetic mechanisms that underpin resilience in changing ecosystems. My current work focuses on how phenotypic plasticity in tropical butterflies shapes adaptation to fluctuating seasonal environments

News

December 2025

Professor Federico Ardila joining QMUL in January 2026

11 December 2025

Prof. Federico Ardila will be joining the School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL in January 2026 as part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering Talent scheme. Ardila is a Colombian mathematician whose work in matroid theory lies at the intersection of combinatorics with geometry, algebra, topology, and applications. Apart from his ... [more]

Professor Federico Ardila joining QMUL in January 2026

Probabilistic modelling enables an experimental method in a study of how bacteria exchange DNA, published in PNAS

9 December 2025

As part of a team of collaborators, Dr. Natasha Blitvic recently published an article at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America entitled "Fluid flow generates bacterial conjugation hot spots by increasing the rate of shear-driven cell–cell encounters". The study uses probabilistic ... [more]

Probabilistic modelling enables an experimental method in a study of how bacteria exchange DNA, published in PNAS

Evidence for a new Higgs boson decay

8 December 2025

Physicists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), together with international collaborators, have found evidence of the decay of Higgs bosons to muons. Muons are particles typically found in cosmic rays and have a low mass, and because of this the Standard Model of particle physics predicts that this decay ... [more]

Professor Arumugam Nallanathan among the world's most highly cited researchers for 2025.

5 December 2025

Professor Nallanathan has been named a Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science for the fourth consecutive year. He is one of just 119 researchers recognised globally in this field, and one of only 12 listed from the UK. Congratulations to Professor Arumugam Nallanathan, founding head of the Communication Systems Research (CSR) Group ... [more]

Professor Arumugam Nallanathan among the world's most highly cited researchers for 2025.

Dr. Nicolás Hernández awarded LMS Grant to establish a UK Functional Data Analysis group

3 December 2025

Dr. Nicolás Hernández, Lecturer in Statistics at our Centre, has been awarded a Scheme 3 grant by the London Mathematical Society. The grant will support the creation of a new Joint Research Group focused on "Statistical Modelling and Inference for Functional Data Analysis". Functional Data Analysis is a rapidly ... [more]

Two-day workshop in "Geometric Methods in Probability"

3 December 2025

Our centre members Dr. Amaranta Membrillo Solis and Prof. John Moriarty are co-organising a two-day workshop in the School of Mathematical Sciences on the 12th and 13th January, titled "Geometric Methods in Probability". The first event on Monday 12th January will consist of a London Probability Day (LPD), an one-day ... [more]

Two-day workshop in "Geometric Methods in Probability"

QMUL Scientists Uncover Shape-Proof Pathway to Exotic Electrical Behaviour

2 December 2025

Researchers at the Centre for Electronics at Queen Mary University of London have reported a fresh theoretical result that settles a long-standing question in materials physics. Their new study shows that a key set of calculations used to test whether a crystal could exhibit negative static electric susceptibility remains stable ... [more]

Adrian Baule wins EPSRC funding to investigate theoretical foundations of AI media generators

2 December 2025

The UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (EPSRC) has awarded an £84,036 research grant for exploring Metastability in generative diffusion models to Adrian Baule, Reader in Applied Mathematics in the Centre for Complex Systems. The project will target the foundations of AI image, audio, and video generators such as DALL-E, Stable ... [more]

Adrian Baule wins EPSRC funding to investigate theoretical foundations of AI media generators

November 2025

'Project Psyche' aims to sequence the genomes of all 11,665 European butterfly and moth species

30 November 2025

A team from Queen Mary University of London - School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences has been taking part in a global project that aims to sequence the genomes of all 11,665 European butterfly and moth species. 'Project Psyche' involves researchers, taxonomists, policymakers and citizen scientists from all over the world, ... [more]

'Project Psyche' aims to sequence the genomes of all 11,665 European butterfly and moth species

Meet one of our PhD students: Daniel Gill

30 November 2025

To celebrate Disabilty History Month we introduce one of our PhD students: Daniel Gill. "I am a PhD Student primarily based in the Cognitive Science Research Group within the School of Electronical Engineering and Computer Science, though I am also associated with the Centre for Brain and Behaviour. My own ... [more]

Meet one of our PhD students: Daniel Gill

Queen Mary launches world's first masters degree in organ-on-a-chip technology

26 November 2025

Queen Mary is proud to launch a new specialist bioengineering programme, MSc Organ-on-a-Chip Technologies, now open for September 2026 applications. Delivered within the renowned Centre for Predictive In Vitro Models, the course provides advanced training in next-generation organ-on-a-chip, tissue engineering and in vitro technologies. Following the Government's recently announced strategy to ... [more]

Queen Mary launches world's first masters degree in organ-on-a-chip technology

Meet the PhD graduates of our Centre

26 November 2025

Our Centre currently hosts a vibrant community of young researchers with 23 PhD students working under the supervision of the Centre's academics. But what career paths do our PhD students follow after graduation? In this page, you can find information about our recent PhD graduates, including the topic of their theses, ... [more]

Queen Mary team qualify an organ-chip model of breast cancer metastasis using a multi-omics approach

24 November 2025

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed and rigorously qualified a new organ-on-a-chip model that replicates the early stages of breast cancer bone metastasis, offering a promising alternative to animal studies. The microfluidic system brings together osteocytes, osteoclasts and breast cancer cells in a dynamic tri-culture, but its ... [more]

Queen Mary team qualify an organ-chip model of breast cancer metastasis using a multi-omics approach

Musician Will Young visits Queen Mary to explore alternatives to Animal Testing

19 November 2025

A group of high-profile guests visited Queen Mary's Centre for Predictive In Vitro Models on Tuesday 11th November, to explore the university's cutting-edge organ-on-a-chip facilities. The delegation included musician and animal advocate Will Young, a Director and Toxicologist from Lush cosmetics, and representatives from the charity Animal Aid. The group ... [more]

Musician Will Young visits Queen Mary to explore alternatives to Animal Testing

Biagio Lucini gives the Higgs Compositeness update talk at Lattice 2025

18 November 2025

Many congratulations to Biagio Lucini, who has given the Higgs Compositeness update talk at Lattice 2025. The 42nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2025) is an annual conference that brings together scientists from around the world who specialise in the numerical evaluation of quantum field theories. This year it was ... [more]

Biagio Lucini gives the Higgs Compositeness update talk at Lattice 2025

Workshop on Aperiodic Order at MFO (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach)

18 November 2025

Together with colleagues from the US and Germany, Reem Yassawi, senior lecturer in the Centre for Complex Systems, has applied successfully to host a workshop at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics). MFO workshops are prestigious gatherings of small groups of invited experts, who spend a ... [more]

Workshop on Aperiodic Order at MFO (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach)

CMAI at NeurIPS 2025

17 November 2025

On 2-7 December, several CMAI researchers will participate at the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), taking place in San Diego. NeurIPS is a prestigious annual academic conference and non-profit foundation that fosters the exchange of research in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and computational neuroscience. ... [more]

Global Partnership Targets Safer, Cleaner and More Resilient Offshore Aquaculture

17 November 2025

We have launched a major international research initiative to strengthen the safety, resilience, and sustainability of offshore aquaculture, backed by a £998,330 grant from Lloyd's Register Foundation and under the leadership of Dr Avital. As demand for seafood rises globally, offshore fish farming is increasingly seen as a vital solution, yet ... [more]

Global Partnership Targets Safer, Cleaner and More Resilient Offshore Aquaculture

QMUL Researchers Win Top International Award for Breakthrough in Antenna Measurement Technology

14 November 2025

We're proud to share that researchers from the Antenna and Electromagnetics Group at QMUL have received a major international honour. Dr. Rostyslav Dubrovka and Prof. Stuart Gregson, working with Dr.-Ing. Marc Dirix from RWTH Aachen University, earned first place in the 2025 Best Technical Paper competition at the 47th Annual ... [more]

QMUL Researchers Win Top International Award for Breakthrough in Antenna Measurement Technology

New Study Reveals Hidden Diversity in How Bacteria Respond to Antibiotics

12 November 2025

Researchers at the Centre for Molecular Cell Biology and Experimental and Applied Physics together with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh and Imperial College London have uncovered a new mechanism that helps bacteria survive antibiotic treatment. Published in Nature Communications, their research shows that RNA repair in E. coli not ... [more]