Stuart WigbyPrincipal Investigator – ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2260-2948
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Ashwin SuryanarayananNERC funded PhD studentI have joined the Wigby lab as an ACCE DTP PhD Student. I am interested in inter-individual interactions, how ecology and life history shape the behavioural strategies that individuals employ while interacting with others and in response to stressful environments, and the ultimate consequences of these behavioural interactions on individual fitness. My project will focus on the effects of different environmental stressors like heat stress, nutritional restriction, and disease, on male ejaculate strategies and its subsequent consequences on post-copulatory sexual selection in Drosophila spp. Ultimately, I aim to elucidate the adaptive benefits of different behavioural strategies employed by Drosophila spp., in the context of mating, in response to stressful environments. Outside of science, I spend my time reading non-fiction, going on long walks, taking generally mediocre photos of insects, and befriending cats.
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Ana Márquez RosadoNERC funded PhD studentI joined Wigby lab as an ACCE DTP PhD student. My work will be centred on determining how different species of fruit fly (Drosophila spp.), from a range of natural climates, survive and reproduce under temperature extremes using several diet choices. I have always been fascinated by research and science dissemination that so evolutionary ecology and animal behaviour are my main research interest. With experience in working with fruit flies, I aim to address how species will adapt to new environments in the context of climate change.
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Lily AmosNERC funded PhD studentI have joined the Wigby lab as an ACCE DTP PhD student. My PhD project aims to identify how different environmental factors can affect female control of fertilisation, using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a model system. My research interests and experience lies in post-copulatory sexual selection, with a particular enthusiasm for numbers, stats and coding. At the start of my research career I am excited to not only be addressing such an important gap in evolutionary research, but also to be doing so in a critical context of our rapidly changing climate.
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Nicola WhiteBBSRC funded TechnicianI have joined The Wigby Lab as Senior Drosophila Laboratory Research Technician, working on BBSRC funded project to identify dietary optima for sperm and seminal fluid in males of different ages, that promote fertilisation success and delay male reproductive ageing. My aim is to provide a practical support to the project and the lab group as a whole, backed by my many years of experience of working with Drosophila.
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Mischa EmeryMRC funded PhD StudentI’ve joined the Wigby lab at the University of Liverpool as a MRC DiMeN DTP PhD candidate. My project centres on investigating the effects of diet and ageing in relation to prostate cancer, using Drosophila as a model system. With a background in biochemistry, entomology and cell biology my favourite projects to work on are those that are interdisciplinary, aim to solve medically important issues whilst increasing our understanding of how biological systems function. Outside of science I am a collector of hobbies, current favourites being bouldering, reading and sewing.
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Andy McCrackenBBSRC funded Postdoc
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