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Current Group
Michael Jennions
Martin Edvardsson (Post-doc)
Megan Higgie (Post-doc)
Fleur de Crespigny (Visit. Fellow)
Jean Drayton(PhD student)
Brian Mautz (PhD Student)
Richard Milner (PhD Student)
Isobel Booksmythe (PhD student)
Sophie Callander (PhD Student)

Andrew Kahn (Hons Student)
James Davies (Research Officer)

Recent Members

Clint Kelly (Post-doc)
Bob Wong (PhD)
J.E. (Kobus) Boeke (Msc)
Leah Bala (Hons)
Michelle Shackleton (Msc)

Katie Humphrey (Hons)
Fredrick Hayes (Hons)

Jessica Bolton (Hons student)


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School of Botany & Zoology
Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200,
Australia
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NEWS

NOVEMBER

  • Lots of media interest in Richard's paper in Biol Letts. Over 350 Online News sites have covered the story (Nov 6).

  • Isobel B has had her fourth paper on the 'dear enemy' effect accepted (Anim Behav). Nice.

  • 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

  • Isobel B has had her third paper accepted (Behav Ecol Sociobiol).

  • 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)

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • James D completed yet another 24 hour team mountain bike race.   The man is unstoppable.

  • Jean D is making the final touches to the third data chapter of her PhD. It is looking good.

  • Martin E is mutating crickets and beetles....someone has to do it.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Hanna Kokko has settled into a flat in Kingston, bought out Ikea, set up her office and is now in official sabbatical mode. Welcome

  • 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

  • Richard M has submitted his paper on seasonal preferences in fiddler crabs

  • Isobel B has submitted her paper on female mimicry and claw loss in fiddler crabs

  • Andrew K & Brian M have submitted their paper on gonopodium size and female choice

  • Jess B has handed in her Honours thesis. Congratulations

APRIL

  • April 31 Brian M will be celebrating his 29th birthday. Happy Birthday from everyone in J-lab.

  • Congratulations to Isobel B and Richard M who have both been awarded Australian Geographic Research Grants

  • 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)]

  • 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.

  • Jess B is in the final birth pangs of delivering her Honours thesis. Nearly there Jess, only a few more weeks.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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...)

  • 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!

  • 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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