THE EGI STUDENT CONFERENCE will be held at Oxford, 9-11 January 2007. Registration for the conference has now closed and there are no longer any talk slots available. However there may still be space to attend the conference and to present a poster, but please check with Claire Rowsell when she is back in the office in early January. Click here for further details about the programme and conference in general.
John Quinn has been appointed to the position of Departmental Lecturer in Behavioural Mechanisms and takes up the position in October 2006.
Farewell to Anne Charmantier who has just been awarded a permanent CNRS research fellowship at the University of Montpellier, France. Anne's presence will be sorely missed at the EGI and we wish her well.
Congratulations to Sarah Nachuha who has just passed her DPhil viva with minor corrections. Sarah's thesis concerns the ecology of wetland birds on rice paddies in Uganda and was examined by Will Cresswell from the University of St Andrews and Andy Gosler from the EGI.
For a list of seminars at the EGI term's EGI seminars have now been finalised. [link]
Welcome to Amy Hinks, Julie Collett and Mark Baynes who all begin their DPhils October 2006, to Farah Ishtiaq and Miriam Liedvogel who bring their own Marie Curie Fellowshipsto the EGI. Congrats to Teddy Wilkin who takes up his first (NERC funded) post doc.
The Times reports on research by Andy Gosler at the EGI on the functional significance of speckling patterns on bird eggs [link]
Anne Charmantier recently published exciting new findings on evolutionary change in clutch size among the Mute Swan population at Abbotsbury, England [Link].
Joseph Tobias is a new Research Associate at the EGI and is currently working on a book about the birds of Bolivia. EGI webpage [link]. Personal website [link].
The EGI Conference was held for the first time at the Unversity of Groningen, 4-7 January 2006, and was a big success! See photos...[link].
Nathalie Seddon recently joined the EGI from Cambridge UK and holds a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, working on speciation in Amazonian birds. [link]
National Geographic reports on recent research by Andy Gosler at the EGI: 'Speckles Make Bird Eggs Stronger, Study Finds' [link]
Charlie Cornwallis takes up an EGI funded Research Fellow in Ornithology. [link]
Four new DPhil students joined the EGI from October 2005: Rebecca Dean will work on sexual selection and sperm competition in fowl, together with Tom Pizzari. Mark Gillingham will work on MHC variation and sexual selection in fowl, together with Tom Pizzari; Sarah Knowles will work on evolutionary ecology of avian malaria. Jo Chapman started her DPhil on genetic variability and fitness in great tits.
Current vistors to the group include Farah Ishtiaq (for 6 months from the Smithsonian Institution) and Utku Pertkas (for six months from Ankara, Turkey).
Photos from recent mute swan outings to Abbotsbury and 'Swan Upping'...
Kris
Jones, who began a DPhil in October 2004, has been awarded
the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship,
USA, to pursue research relating to the fitness effects of
sex ratio manipulation in a wild population of starlings.
Congratulations to Jo
Chapman and Marta
Szulkin, each of whom has recently been awarded prestigious
scholarships that will fund their DPhils at the EGI. Jo has
been awarded a Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship by the Tertiary
Education Commission, New Zealand, and will start a DPhil
on genetic compatibility and mate choice in great tits in
October 2005. Marta, who started a DPhil in October 2004,
has been awarded the Christopher Welch Scholarship, to pursue
studies of inbreeding in wild bird populations.
Professor Ben Sheldon has been awarded the Scientific Medal
of the Zoological Society of London (February 2005).
As holder of the Luc Hoffmann Professorship in Field Ornithology,
Professor Sheldon gave his inaugural lecture on “Ornithology
at Oxford” at Wolfson College, Oxford, on Friday, 11
March 2005.
Dr Tommaso Pizzari, who joined the Edward Grey Institute
as Lecturer in Ornithology on 1 January 2005, has been awarded
ASAB's Outstanding Young Investigator Award for 2005 (ASAB
is the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour).
New findings about evolutionary patterns in the Wytham great
tit population were published on 7 January 2005 (Link
to letter in Nature...).
Claire Rowsell started work as PA to Professor Sheldon from
29 November 2004.
EGI Christmas party photos (here...).
Job opportunity: Research Fellowship in Ornithology available
at the EGI, closing date 21 January 2005 (more...).
THE EGI CONFERENCE was held from the evening of 5 January
to lunch-time on 8 January 2005. Invited
plenaries include Will Cresswell, Rebecca Kilner, Pat Monaghan,
and Tom Pizzari (Provisional
conference programme...)(More...)
Ben Sheldon, who has been Head of the EGI since Chris Perrins's
retirement in 2002, became the first holder of the Luc Hoffmann
Chair in Field Ornithology on 1 October 2004. Professor Sheldon
also becomes the Director of the EGI. (More...)
Five new DPhil students joined the group
in October 2004. Brian Briggs will work on urban wetland ecology
in London (click
here), Jane Hayden on the ecology of declining Marsh Tits,
Sam Patrick on sexual selection and personality in great tits,
Marta Szulkin on the evolutionary genetic consequences of
climate change and Kris Jones on sex ratios.
Two NERC DPhil studentships will be available for September
2005 (More...).
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