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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.

Daniel Pincheira-Donoso (Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow)
Daniel is investigating the adaptive radiation of the Liolaemus lizard genus - one of the largest vertebrate genera, and using this group as a model system for addressing questions about speciation.

Thor Veen (Dutch Science foundation Postdoctoral Fellow)
Thor is using 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.

Jeff Stoltz (NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow)
Jeff will be joining the group in September to work on the genetic architecture of condition depdendent traits using cricket songs and mutagenesis...

David Punzalan (NERC Postdoctoral Fellow)
David is working 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.

Frances Tyler (ESF PhD student)
Fran is conducting behavioural and genomic studies of sexual selection and reproductive isolation in wild field crickets, using 454 sequence data from the transcriptome of Gryllus campestris, and examining isolation between this species and Gryllus bimaculatus.

Xavier Harrison (NERC PhD student)
Xav is co-supervised by Stuart Bearhop and studies the causes and consequences of variation in dispersal strategy in an arctic migrant, the Light-bellied Brent goose (Branta bernicla hrota)

Lucy Wright (NERC PhD student)
Lucy is co-supervised by Annette Broderick and is using field data collections and microsatellite genotyping to study Inbreeding and the recovery of green turtle populations.

Will Pitchers (NERC PhD student)
Will is co-supervised by John Hunt and is working on genetic integration constraints on adaptation using the cricket Teleogryllus commodus as a model system.

Manmohan Sharma (NERC PhD student)
MD is co-supervised by David Hosken and is using laboratory studies of Drosophila simulans to study sexual selection & adaptation.

Alumni

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.

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.

Kelly Green (BBSRC PhD student)
Kelly is investigating sexual selection, mate choice and multiple mating in field crickets.

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 at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany.

Martin Edvardsson (Visiting PhD student)
Martin is now a postdoctoral resarcher in our department after his 6 months STINT with me funded by the 'Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education'.