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Rolando
Rodríguez-Muñoz (NERC Postdoctoral
Fellow)
Rolando is a running our field project investigating natural and sexual selection
in a wild field cricket
population in Northern Spain using a network of video cameras and genotyping
all individuals.
David Fisher (NERC PhD student)
David is working on social networks and personality in wild insects using the WildCrickets field site.
Ian Skicko (NERC PhD student)
Fran is conducting behavioural and genomic studies of sexual selection and reproductive
isolation in field crickets, using 454 sequence data from the transcriptome
of Gryllus campestris, and examining isolation between this species
and Gryllus bimaculatus.
Joe Faulks (MRes student)
Joe is examining phonotaxis and mate choice in field crickets, including examining attractiveness of hybrid individuals to determine barriers to gene flow in natural populations.
Alumni
Frances
Tyler (ESF PhD student)
Fran carried out behavioural and cuticular hydrocarbon studies of sexual selection and reproductive
isolation in field crickets, examining isolation between Gryllus campestris and Gryllus bimaculatus.
Kim Jensen (NERC Postdoctoral Fellow)
Kim worked on a project in collaboration with John
Hunt, examining the link between microevolutionary processes and macroevolutionary
change by examining the evolution of the G matrix for male call structure across
six natural populations of the black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus. We're still working on analysing the calls!
Daniel
Pincheira-Donoso(Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow)
Daniel investigated the adaptive radiation of the Liolaemus lizard
genus - one of the largest vertebrate genera, using the group as a model
system for addressing questions about speciation. He is now a lecturer at the University of Lincoln.
Thor
Veen (Dutch Science foundation Postdoctoral
Fellow)
Thor used field crickets as a model for understanding signal use in sexual
selection and speciation, particularly situations where signals have roles in
signalling both species and quality. He has just landed a job at Quest University in British Columbia. Don't visit their website, you'll want to move house.
Lucy
Wright (NERC PhD student)
Lucy was co-supervised by Annette
Broderick and used field data collections and microsatellite genotyping
to study Inbreeding and the recovery of green turtle populations. She is now a technician at the CEC.
Jeff
Stoltz (NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow)
Jeff is in Toronto writing up his work on the genetic architecture
of condition depdendent traits using cricket songs and mutagenesis...
David
Punzalan (NERC Postdoctoral Fellow)
David workedwith John
Hunt and I on our project examining the evolution of the G matrix for male call structure across
natural populations of the black field cricket. He realised the project had far too much looking after thousands of crickets and bailed out to return to Toronto.
Xavier
Harrison (NERC PhD student)
Xav was co-supervised by Stuart
Bearhop and studied the causes and consequences of variation in dispersal
strategy in an arctic migrant, the Light-bellied Brent goose (Branta bernicla
hrota). He's now a PDRA here at the CEC.
Will
Pitchers (NERC PhD student)
Will was co-supervised by John
Hunt and worked on genetic integration constraints on adaptation using
the cricket Teleogryllus commodus as a model system, he's now working at MSU on evolutionary genomics of wing shape in Drosophila.
Manmohan Sharma (former NERC PhD
student)
MD was co-supervised by David
Hosken and used laboratory studies of Drosophila simulans to
study sexual selection & adaptation. He continues to work with on these systems as a PDRA here at the CEC.
Amanda Bretman (Postdoctoral
Fellow)
Amanda was a PhD student with me and subsequently ESF and NERC post-doctoral
fellow. She developed microsatellite markers in field crickets Gryllus
bimaculatus in collaboration with the NERC
Sheffield Molecular Genetics Facility. She used these markers to answer
a range of questions in relation to sperm competition and differential allocation. She is now at UEA working on similar questions in flies.
Laurene Gay (Postdoctoral
Fellow)
Laurene was a NERC funded post-doctoral fellow investigating the role of sexual
conflict in driving evolution and interactions with population size and genetic
diversity using the bruchid beetle Callosobruchus maculatus as a model
system. She now works at the INRA in Montpellier where life is so good, they can't be arsed to have an even vaguely functioning website.
Kelly Green(BBSRC PhD student)
Kelly investigated sexual selection, mate choice and multiple mating in
field crickets. She is now on the verge of being super famous as lead singer of ace band 'The Eyelids'.
Fathi Ali Attia (Libyan
Government PhD student)
Fathi's PhD involved laboratory experiments to examine why female flour beetles
Tribolium castaneum
mate so readily, including evidence for sexual conflict over mating rate and
possible genetic benefits to females of polyandry.
Isabel Smallegange (Visiting
PhD student)
Isabel spent 6 months working with me, investigating the potential for reduced
competition between related bruchid beetles. She is now working on eco-evolutionary dynamics in the bulb mite at Imperial College.
Martin Edvardsson(Visiting
PhD student)
Martin is now a postdoctoral resarcher at ANU after his 6 months
STINT with me funded by the
'Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education'.