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Research Group: A. Rus Hoelzel – Group head; Head of Ecology research section; Professor of Molecular Ecology. Population and evolutionary genetics, behavioural ecology, molecular ecology and conservation genetics with an emphasis on marine species. Vittoria Elliot - (PhD student) Male mediated gene flow and the development of Y-markers in marine mammals. Karis Baker (PhD student) - Population genetics of ancient and modern roe deer; testing theories about the impact of reintroductions on diversity and fitness George Gkafas (PhD student) - Pathogen load and genetic diversity in delphinid cetaceans. Iris Segura (PhD student) - Fine scale population genetics of delphinid species in the Gulf of California. Andre Moura (PhD student) - Fine scale population genetics of delphinid species along the coast of Portugal. Rocio Loizaga de Castro (PhD student) - Population genetics of dusky dolphins in Argentina. Linus Flink (PhD student) - Ancient DNA of pigs—investigating the Neolithisation of Europe Howard Gray - Molecular ecology of dolphin species in the Sea of Arabia Ross Barnett (Postdoc) - Ancient DNA from the Orkney vole; inference about human migration in the neolithic from animal associates Tom White (Postdoc) - Population genetics and phylogenetics of organisms at the mid-Atlantic ridge (ECOMAR) Eulalia Banguera (Postdoc) - Phylogeography and phylogeny of dolphins in the genus Lagenorhynchus Laura Corrigan (Postdoc) - Population genetics and morphometrics of Lake District Arctic charr Malgorzata Pilot (Research Fellow) - Evolution of Baltic seal populations using ancient DNA. Heather Fotherby - ECOMAR lab technician
Past members – Pia Anderwald - Feeding ecology and population genetics of the minke whale. Mark DeBruyn (Postdoc) - Population genetics of a now extinct population of southern elephant seals from the Ross Sea, Antarctica Stefania Gaspari – Phylogeography of striped dolphins and Risso’s dolphins; individual and kin association patterns within and among social groups in the Mediterranean. Courtney Nichols – Population genetics of modern and historical cetacean populations in UK waters. Demetrios Vassilakos – Evolution of immune system genes in cetacean species, with an emphasis on MHC class II genes. Ada Natoli – Phylogeography and molecular ecology of bottlenose dolphin and common dolphin populations, world-wide. Ana Töpf – Phylogenetics of ancient (Anglo Saxon) human populations in Britain in the context of European radiations. Anna Fabiani – Southern elephant seal male reproductive variance on Falkland Island and phylogeography in the South Atlantic. Nathalie Walker – Molecular ecology of invasive riparian plant species recently introduced into Britain. Joelle Wentzel – Population genetics of two South African subspecies of antelope (bontebok and blesbok), and an investigation into the impact of a population bottleneck on the bontebok. Stephan Park – Evolution of immune system (Class II MHC, DQB )genes in Arctocephalus pinniped species. Dan Engelhaupt – Phylogeography, kin associations and molecular ecology of sperm whales, world-wide. Rebecca Lewis – Feeding ecology of grey seals and southern elephant seals using stable isotope markers. Carlos de Luna Lopez – Role of genomic diversity and environmental stress in developmental stability of cetacean species. Andy Foote - Temporal patterns in the production of vocal displays and the evolution of vocal repertoire in killer whales. Fiona Hatchell – Genetic impact of a known bottleneck on a population of reindeer - modelling allelic loss and impacts on developmental stability. Diletta Castellani - Local selection on marine mammal populations. Mariano Coscarella - Molecular ecology of Commerson's dolphins in Argentina (CONICET funding). David Faini - Lab technician Colin Nicholson - Lab technician. Joanne Stamford - Lab technician
Current/ recent visitors – Teresa Moura - University of Lisbon, Portugal Ana Pinela - University of Barcelona, Spain Ana Garcia - ARGOS program trainee Lucas Chalke - University of Pretoria, South Africa Vongani Maboko - University of Pretoria, South Africa Valentina Islas - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Pedro J. Cordero - University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain Rob Fleischer – National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, USA |