I have a new PhD opportunity available – please see below, and full details on the following links. All about Naked Mole Rats and Siamese Fighting Fish, and how they live in low oxygen environments. Great Co-supervisory team – Dr Chris Faulkes (QMUL), Dr Monica Daley (RVC) and Prof Craig White (Monash).
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=56553
We’re looking forward to welcoming Lara Nouri to begin with us in March. Lara will be working on a project in collaboration with Craig White at Monash, all about the metabolic effects of biologgers on birds.
Lara Nouri
Thrilled to welcome new PhD students Jenny Cantlay (below, left) and Stephanie McClelland (below, right) to the lab, both funded by the London NERC DTP. Jenny is a CASE Studentship with the RSPB, and we will be working with Rory Crawford, Alex Bond and Graham Martin, all about avian vision and sensory ecology. Stephanie will be studying the physiology behind avian brood parasitism, and we will be working with Francisco Ubeda, Claire Spottiswoode and Christina Riehl, and a host of other cuckoo experts. Congratulations also to Rosa Gleave who starts on the laughingthrush project in April, with Sam Turvey and Sarah Papworth as primary supervisors.
2017 has been a good year in the lab (generally….). Field work took us to South Africa, Cambodia, Honduras and Borneo, and lab visits to Harvard (USA) and Monash (Australia). Lucy Taylor won a poster prize at the SEB in Sweden (and published her first pigeon PhD paper in JEB), and Dan Sankey won a prize for his talk at the RHUL Postgraduate Symposium (and represented the lab at Biologging in Germany). Rhianna Ricketts and Miranda Reynolds joined the lab, and they both start experiments in earnest in the New Year, with pigeons and cowbirds respectively. 2018 is shaping up to be busy, with a new Research Assistant starting in February to undertake work with the pigeons (in collaboration with Craig White), and our facilities are expanding thanks to a grant from the Royal Society. In the Spring, a new PhD student begins work on the critically endangered blue-crowned laughingthrush (with Sam Turvey and Sarah Papworth), and I start teaching a new module in September called “Extreme Animal Physiology”. I’m particularly looking forward to working with Monica Daley, Chris Faulkes and Nigel Bennett on our exciting mole rat data, and also having an awesome holiday in Croatia in the spring. Happy New Year!
I am looking for a a Field Assistant-Tech person to come and work with us and the pigeons for 6 months next year. Full details below and in the link.
https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=1117-457
Co-author Christie Riehl has written a blog about our paper, recently published in Ibis. You can read the blog here!
With regards to the below, the proper link to apply, with further details, can be found in this link – https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/biologicalsciences/study-here/research-degrees/phdstudentships2017.aspx
We have a fully-funded PhD Studentship available, supervised by Sam Turvey (ZSL), Sarah Papworth and myself (RHUL). Details are below, with full application details to follow shortly.
Thrilled to get a Royal Society Research Grant. Third time of trying so never give up hope….. The project is called “Does practice make perfect: How much energy does streamlining save during group locomotive tasks?”. The work will focus on how young birds develop their flocking skills (both cluster and Vee formation), and (as the title suggests) as adults, how practise can reduce energy expenditure through experience.
Currently at the University of Pretoria working with Prof Nigel Bennett and his amazing collection of Mole Rats. This work forms part of the wider project with Dr’s Chris Faulkes (QMUL) and Monica Daley (RVC), and is funded by an RSF from RHUL.
Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford 