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NEWS
NOVEMBER
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Lots of media interest in
Richard's paper in Biol Letts. Over 350 Online News sites have
covered the story (Nov 6).
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Isobel B has had her
fourth
paper on the 'dear enemy' effect accepted (Anim Behav). Nice.
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Sophie, Brian, Iosbel &
Richard are now all up in Darwin doing field projects under Pat
Backwell's super supervision. It is quiet back here in Canberra....
OCTOBER
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Isobel B has had her
third paper accepted (Behav Ecol Sociobiol).
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Richard M has had his
fifth paper accepted (Biol Letts), is coauthor on Isobel's paper
and has a sixth in re-review (Behav Ecol)
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Sophie C is now doing
a crab project in Darwin supervised by
Pat Backwell. She
has finished data collection for her first cricket project (and yes,
that is the sound of someone drawing a long breath of relief).
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MAJOR NEWS: Andrew K has
his first paper published (Biol Lett). Now that the sun is
shining he starts fieldwork for his Honours. Among other media, this
work was covered by
Nature.
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Brian M is a
co-author on Andrew's paper. He has now finished his first two
Gambusia projects and will soon be in Darwin working on a fiddler
crab project with Pat
Backwell. He is also familiarizing himself with animation software
on his funky new Mac laptop.
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James D completed yet
another 24 hour team mountain bike race. The man is
unstoppable.
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Jean D is making the
final touches to the third data chapter of her PhD. It is looking good.
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Martin E is mutating
crickets and beetles....someone has to do it.
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Megan H is back from
fieldwork on frogs in Queensland, has completed organising the
Australasian Evolution Society Meeting in her role as Treasurer and
general trouble shooter, and just submitted a substantial review on the
role of species interactions in speciation that you will all soon
be reading.
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Michael J is sitting
at his desk wondering why he has started using emoticons in his emails :
( He will be in Darwin in December : ) he is
also gearing up for the thrill of writing an ARC grant.. watch this
space for tears, sweat and more tears.
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Hanna Kokko has
settled into a flat in Kingston, bought out Ikea, set up her
office and is now in official sabbatical mode. Welcome
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Hope Klug has
been visiting and has just submitted a revised version of a review
on measuring sexual selection to J Evol Biol. It is a really
interesting paper - look out for it. Welcome and, so soon
already, a safe trip
home.
MAY
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Richard M has submitted his paper on seasonal
preferences in fiddler crabs
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Isobel B has submitted her paper on female mimicry
and claw loss in fiddler crabs
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Andrew K & Brian M have submitted their
paper on gonopodium size and female choice
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Jess B has handed in
her Honours thesis. Congratulations
APRIL
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April 31 Brian M will
be celebrating his 29th birthday. Happy Birthday from everyone in J-lab.
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Congratulations to Isobel B and Richard M
who have both been awarded Australian Geographic Research Grants
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Congratulations to Martin
E , who has just had a paper accepted by Heredity [ Edvardsson M, Hunt
J, Moore AJ, Moore PJ. 2009. Quantitative genetic variation in the
control of ovarian apoptosis under different environments.
Heredity
( in press)]
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MAJOR NEWS:
Megan H has
just been awarded the R.A. Fisher Award from the International Society for
the Study of Evolution.
Congratulations from all of us to Megan on this very impressive
achievement.
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Jess B is in the
final birth pangs of delivering her Honours thesis. Nearly there Jess,
only a few more weeks.
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Hanna Kokko has been
awarded a Sabbatical fellowship from the Academy of Finland and will be
based at the ANU in 2009-2010 (arrival date to be confirmed). A day of
sandals with socks will be organized to welcome her.
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Isobel B
has had her poster short listed for the ANU
ResearchFest.
Well done Isobelle. You can vote for Isobelle's poster by going
here. Vote
early and vote often.
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Richard M has produced the first paper from the trip to
Mozambique to be accepted for publication (Milner RNC, Detto T, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2009. Hunting and predation
in a fiddler crab.
Journal of
Ethology)
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Jean D has just
successfully completed her final field experiment for her PhD and is now
writing up her thesis for submission this year. Keep at it.
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Brian M has just
completed his first year PhD review and it is now confirmed that he will
be going on do a PhD. (No surprise, but another red tape hoop jumped
through). He is also approaching the end of a very long study on polyandry
and sexual conflict.
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Andrew K, along
with Brian, has just completed an experiment looking at female
choice for genitalia in Gambusia. They have found some very cool results that
are now being written up. The paper will be submitted this month.
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Sophie C has
just arrived in the group as a new PhD student. She will be working on
both crickets and fish. We all wish her a happy and productive time here.
(Sophie will have a web page soon...)
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Ruth Archer is a PhD
student in the lab of Dr John Hunt (U. Exeter in Cornwall). She will be
with us for most of April. Welcome Ruth!
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Cover Photo for
Backwell PRY, Matsumasa M, Double M, Roberts A, Murai M, Keogh JS, Jennions MD. 2007. What are the consequences of being left clawed in a
predominantly right clawed fiddler crab?
Proceedings
of the Royal Society Series B
274: 2723-2729
[PDF]]
Cover Photo
For more on fiddler crabs, check out the website of
Pat Backwell
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