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Students

 

Esther Levy                 PhD student                APRS Funded 

 

                                    

Esther has recently started her PhD on the ornate dragon lizard Ctenophorus ornatus and is supervised with Natasha LeBas and Jason Kennington.

 

Gordon Brown             PhD student                NERC Funded

                                    

Gordon recently completed his PhD on the phylogeography of the European earwig Forficula auricularia in the British Isles. Through Gordon’s work we have increased our understanding of the genetic history of population divergence in male morph ratios in the European earwig. His work focused particularly on island populations in the Firth of Forth in Scotland and the Farne islands in Northumberland, UK.

 

Satu Paukku                 PhD student    Supervised with Janne Kotiaho.

 

Satu’s research has been on the quantitative genetics of reproductive costs in the bean weevil Callosobruchus maculatus. This work was conducted in part at the University of St Andrews. She has completed her PhD and is currently a post-doc in Jyväskylä. Further details of her work can be found from here.

 

 

*Ulec Unrug                 PhD student              Supervised with Jacek Radwan.

 

Ulec’s PhD is run through the Jagiellonian University. As part of the ongoing collaboration with Jacek, Ulec spent three months in St Andrews conducting a selection experiment in the mite S. berlesei. He managed six generations in three months! His results have since been published in Proc. B.

 

*Łukasz Michalczyk   Masters           Joint supervised with Jacek Radwan, Krakow.

*Piotr Łukasik             Masters           Joint supervised with Jacek Radwan, Krakow.

 

Lukasz and Piotr visited St Andrews from Jacek’s group at the Jagiellonian. Both worked on experiments quantifying fitness functions in the S. berlesei. These experiments contributed to their Masters degrees. Lukasz is currently doing a PhD at UEA. Piotr is finishing his undergraduate studies in Poland.

 

Research Assistants

 

Marissa Penrose                                              ARC

Jacklyn Chan                                                   ARC

*Esther Levy                                                   ARC

*Andy Arthur                                                  BBSRC

*Claire Benskin                                               BBSRC

*Morag McCracken                                        BBSRC

*Julie Wernham                                              NERC

 

 

 

(* former group member)