A big congrats to Michael Bertram for being awarded the SETAC Australasia Postgrad Research Publication Award for 2019!!
Welcome Dr Giovani Polverino
UWA Forrest Fellow Dr Giovanni Polverino spent a couple of weeks visiting the lab to conduct a collaborative research project on the effects of pharmaceutical pollutants on behavioural variation in guppies. Here Gio (right) takes a break to enjoy some Japanese.
Congratulations, Minna!
A huge congratulations to Minna Saaristo for winning the SETAC Australasia Early Career Medal for 2019!!
Congratulations Michael and Anna!
A big congratulations to Michael Bertram and Anna Hatzisavas (our fantastic website manager) on their beautiful wedding today.
ISBE2020 logo launch
Today marked the launch of the logo for the 18th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress. The design features a yellow-tailed black cockatoo set against a background of Eucalyptus leaves and blossoms. Bob is the Chair of the Organising Committee of the 2020 ISBE Congress.
Seminar at Arthur Rylah Institute
Bob presented a seminar today at the Victorian State Government’s Arthur Rylah Institute speaking about the ecological and evolutionary implications of wildlife behavioural responses to changing environments.
Lab dinner
We recently enjoyed a celebratory dinner with Prof. Bryan Brooks (Baylor University) and PhD student Cameron Jones (UC Davis), who have been in Australia visiting our research group over the last few months. Yum!
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Maddy de Jong who received a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment! She will be using the grant to fund her research into the effects of incubation temperature on behaviour, thermal physiology and sex ratios in lizards.
New PhD student
Welcome to Jack Brand who begins his PhD project co-supervised with David Chapple investigating behavioural variation and cognition in invasive species.
Visit to Perth
Bob recently visited the University of Western Australia (UWA) to deliver talks and an ECR workshop as part of a visiting fellowship funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies and the Forrest Foundation. A big thanks to Dr. Giovanni Polverino and Prof. Leigh Simmons from the Centre for Evolutionary Biology and the School of Biological Sciences at UWA for hosting.
Lord Howe Island fieldwork
We’ve recently had lab members in the field. PhD candidates Cameron Jones, visiting on an NSF grant from the Sih lab at UC Davis, and Annie Naimo collected invasive L. delicata on Lord Howe Island and from their mainland Australian source population, Coffs Harbour. This work will address behavioural changes across the invasion process and was funded by a Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council.
Congratulations, Michael!
A big congratulations to Michael Bertram on having his PhD conferred! Well done!