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Stephen Montgomery NERC IRF and lab PI I grew up in the great city of Belfast and first came to Cambridge to read Natural Sciences as an undergrad. I stayed on to do a PhD on primate brain evolution with Nick Mundy, then joined Judith Mank’s lab, briefly in Oxford and then at UCL, under successive early-career fellowships from The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and The Leverhulme Trust. During this time I started a series of projects on brain evolution in Neotropical butterflies that developed into the research subject of my NERC Independent Research Fellowship, and brought me back to the Zoology department in 2016. Contact: shm37@cam.ac.uk |
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Antoine Couto
Newton/Wellcome Trust ISSF funded Post-doc I began my research career by studying olfactory learning and neural plasticity in Apis mellifera, under the supervision of Jean-Christophe Sandoz at the CNRS. I stayed there to conduct a PhD on the olfactory system and behaviour of an invasive hornet, Vespa velutina, exploring possible management strategies, and developing my interest in comparative neuroanatomy and the evolution of social behaviour. I was particularly interested in identifying adaptations in the nervous system that favoured the repeated evolution of eusociality in Hymeneptera. After a short post-doc on the effect of pesticides on honeybee olfactory perception, I joined the EBAB lab to investigate how the brains of Heliconius butterflies are shaped by their unique ecology and behaviour. More. Contact: arc86@cam.ac.uk |
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Güniz Göze Eren
Genetics Society summer student I am an undergraduate in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Bilkent University in Turkey. I am also a science and an animal lover and write popular science articles on many subjects related to evolution in Evrim Ağacı to spread the scientific way of thinking in Turkey. My favourite subject is neuroethology so I love to scrutinise relationship between the brain and behavior. I have come to EBAB lab to conduct a summer project based on the evolutionary genetics of elephant brain, supported by the Genetics Society. More. |