Susan is looking into plasticity in female mate preferences, assortative mating by fitness, and circadian dynamics in pheromones and mating, all in Drosophila of course.

Brian Mautz
Postdoc
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Brian is arriving in early March 2012 to work on a collaborative project with Russell Bonduriansky (UNSW) on sexual selection and life history evolution in Antler flies. It's a very cool system in which measures approaching male lifetime fitness can be gained in the wild. We're going to get him a new hat though.

Nicolas Rode
Postdoc, joint with Rees Kassen.
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Nicolas is completing his PhD at Montpellier with Thomas Lenormand and should be arriving here in late 2012. The plan is to do some theory and empirical work on the evolution of sex in fungi. Sex in fungi is ridiculously complicated.

Devin Arbuthnott
PhD Candidate
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Devin is interested in the contribution of sexual selection to adaptation and speciation. He is currently exploring its effects on purging deleterious mutations, and on the ecology of sexual conflict.

Anita Melnyk
PhD Candidate, co-supervised by Rees Kassen.
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Anita hopes to study sexual selection's role in adapatation and speciation in yeast, and possibly characterize epistatsis among beneficial alleles fixed during replicate adaptive walks in the same species.

Alison White
MSc Candidate
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Alison is loooking at male-male aggression as a component of sexual fitness in Drosophila serrata.

Honours students
Ethan Toumishey

Lab alumni