| Acoustic camouflage: moth wings as metasurface provide bimodal stealth against bat biosonar |
Dr Marc Holderied |
University of Bristol |
Biological metamaterials; acoustic cloaking; sensory ecology; echolocation |
| Adaptive evolution of stress coping style in guppies |
Prof Alastair Wilson |
University of Exeter (Penryn) |
Evolution; stress; genetics; behaviour; fish |
| Cerebro-cerebellar interactions in goal directed behaviour |
Prof Richard Apps |
University of Bristol |
Cerebellum; prefrontal cortex; in-vivo; rat |
| Developmental drivers of social behaviour and their fitness consequences |
Dr Neeltje Boogert |
University of Exeter (Penryn) |
Behavioural development; hormones; social behaviour; social networks stress |
| Do different expressions of anxiety-like states reflect particular types of appraisal and coping style? * |
Dr Emily Blackwell |
University of Bristol |
Anxiety; cat; behaviour; welfare; cognition |
| Drivers of larval gregariousness in Lepidoptera |
Dr Stephen Montgomery |
University of Bristol |
Aposematism; social behaviour; neuroethology; behavioural genetics; transcriptomics |
| Encoding of decision making by dopamine neurons |
Dr Paul Dodson |
University of Bristol |
Dopamine; decision making; computational modelling; neuroscience; neurophysiology |
| Evolutionary and mechanistic basis of virus host shifts |
Dr Ben Longdon |
University of Exeter (Penryn) |
Pathogen; evolution: genetics; immunity; host-shift |
| Exploring molecular and cellular pathways that promote healthy ageing of vital body tissues, using live-imaging and functional analyses within Drosophila and human genetic epidemiology |
Dr Helen Weavers |
University of Bristol |
Tissue repair; developmental biology: healthy ageing: live-imaging: genetic epidemiology |
| Flight-to-light and the decline in British moths |
Dr James Bell |
Rothamsted Research (Harpenden) |
Lepidoptera; population genetics; behavioural ecology; spectral behaviour |
| How do dogs respond to changes in cortisol levels in conspecifics and humans? * |
Dr Nicola J Rooney |
University of Bristol |
Domestic dog; detection; animal welfare; stress; social transmission |
| How pollinating insects find and learn sites in the landscape with their low-resolution eyes * |
Prof Natalie Hempel de Ibarra |
University of Exeter (Streatham) |
Pollination; remote sensing; flight; foraging; cognition |
| Investigating conserved long non-coding RNA functions during melanocyte development in zebrafish and human melanoma |
Dr Keith Vance |
University of Bath |
Long non-coding RNA, melanocyte, CRISPR, gene regulation, melanoma |
| Neuronal control of mitochondrial trafficking down long-range axons |
Dr Michael Ashby |
University of Bristol |
Neuroscience; mitochondria; synapse; computational biology; 2-photon |
| Plasticity of visual information processing and the consequences of neurodevelopmental disorders |
Prof Frank Sengpiel |
Cardiff University |
Neuroscience; brain imaging; plasticity; neural circuits; vision |
| Regulation of cardiorespiratory control by a novel brainstem circadian clock |
Prof Hugh Piggins |
University of Bristol |
Circadian rhythm; brainstem; cardiovascular control; vagus; neuroscience. |
| The effect of diet and age on skeletal regenerative capacity and inflammation |
Dr Chrissy Hammond |
University of Bristol |
Zebrafish; ageing; health; obesity; genetics |
| The feline gut microbiome in the maintenance of intestinal health in cats * |
Dr Tristan Cogan |
University of Bristol |
Microbiology; cats; intestinal health |
| You are what your mother eats: understanding mother-offspring interactions in tsetse vectors of disease |
Dr Sinead English |
University of Bristol |
Behavioural ecology; nutrition; epidemiology; maternal effects; life history evolution |
