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Amanda Bretman (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Amanda has developed microsatellite markers in field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus in collaboration with the NERC Sheffield Molecular Genetics Facility. She is now using these markers to answer a range of questions in relation to sperm competition and differential allocation.

Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Rolando is a Leverhulme funded post-doctoral fellow investigating inbreeding depression in field crickets and the role of polyandry in inbreeding avoidance.

Laurene Gay (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Laurene is 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.

Daniel Pincheira-Donoso (ORS PhD student)
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.

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.

Alumni

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'.