Centre for Biological Diversity

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• 46 Finished

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  Do fish cooperate to inspect predators?

  Webster, M. M. (PI) & Schweinfurth, M. K. (PI)

  BBSRC iCASE PhD studentship through EASTBIO Doctoral Training Programme

  27/09/22 → 26/09/26

  Project: Standard

  • Poecilia reticulata 100%
  • Gasterosteus aculeatus 100%
  • Phoxinus phoxinus 50%
  • Minnows 50%
  • Mutualism 50%

• SOCIOCOMPLEXITY - New Paradigms: H2020 ERC Consolidator Grant 2017

  Gardner, A. (PI)

  European Research Council

  1/05/18 → 31/10/24

  Project: Standard

  • Evolution 100%
  • Kin Selection 53%
  • Genetics 49%
  • Relatedness 38%
  • Sex Allocation 38%
• Finished

  Who bears the burden of antibiotic resistance in East Africa? Mathematical modelling of socioeconomic disadvantage and resistance

  Sippy, R. (PI), Keenan, K. L. (CoI), Lynch, A. (CoI), Holden, M. (CoI), Kesby, M. (CoI) & Smith, V. A. (CoI)

  STAIRS - St Andrews Interdisciplinary Research Support

  1/09/22 → 31/07/23

  Project: Standard

• Cultural evolution and sexual selection: Cultural evolution and sexual selection in a complex song display

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  1/08/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: Standard

  • Breeding Site 100%
  • Reproductives 100%
  • Cetacea 100%

• Anne Smith ISSF WISSA Award: ISSF Anne Smith

  Smith, V. A. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/07/18 → 1/08/18

  Project: Standard

• Resolving the paradox of statis: Resolving the paradox of stasis: addressing the missing fraction problem.

  Morrissey, M. B. (PI)

  1/05/18 → 31/10/22

  Project: Standard

  • Reidentification 100%
  • Case Study 100%
  • Wild Population 100%
  • Identification Method 100%
  • Computer Vision 100%

• Prof M Holden MRC: Holistic approach to unravel antibacterial resistance in East Africa (HATUA)

  Holden, M. (PI), Gillespie, S. H. (CoI), Keenan, K. L. (CoI), Kesby, M. (CoI), Lynch, A. (CoI), Sabiiti, W. (CoI), Sloan, D. J. (CoI) & Smith, V. A. (CoI)

  Medical Research Council

  1/05/18 → 30/04/21

  Project: Standard

  • Urinary Tract Infection 100%
  • Antibiotic Resistance 85%
  • Antibiotics 76%
  • Escherichia coli 70%
  • Urinary Tract 70%

• Estimating the effective population size: Estimating the effective population size in experimental evolution lines for adaption to a new sexual mating system.

  Kosiol, C. (PI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Standard

  • Gene Frequency 100%
  • Sexual Selection 83%
  • Allele 83%
  • Diptera 83%
  • High Throughput Sequencing 83%

• Research Fellows Enhancement Award 2017: A large-scale replicated artificial selection experiment.

  Morrissey, M. B. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/12/17 → 31/03/21

  Project: Standard

• Ellen Garland - RS URF Enhancement: Sexy singing: Cultural evolution and sexual selection in a complex song display.

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/12/17 → 31/03/21

  Project: Standard

  • Cetacea 100%
  • Megaptera novaeangliae 44%
  • New Zealand 33%
  • Humpback Whale 33%

• Sexy Singing: Cultural Evolution: Sexy singing: cultural evolution and sexual selection in a complex song display

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/10/17 → 30/09/22

  Project: Fellowship

  • Cetacea 100%
  • Humpback Whale 60%
  • Megaptera novaeangliae 36%

• H2020 MSCA Fellowship SCAVENGER: H2020 MSCA Fellowship SCAVENGER

  Ruxton, G. D.

  European Commission

  25/09/17 → 24/09/19

  Project: Fellowship

• Nest Building in Birds: Nest building in birds: a case of collaborative intelligence.

  Healy, S. (PI)

  Templeton World Charity Foundation

  1/09/17 → 29/02/20

  Project: Standard

  • Architectural Tradition 100%
  • Weavers 100%
  • Architectural Style 100%
  • Cooperative 100%
  • Neglect 100%

• Dr Carolin Kosiol: Genome-wide Molecular Dating

  Kosiol, C. (PI)

  1/07/17 → 31/12/20

  Project: Studentship

  • Allele 100%
  • High Throughput Sequencing 100%
  • Phylogeny 100%
  • Gene Frequency 100%
  • Baboon 100%

• Rebecca McNeil Vacation Scholarship: The functional significance of coloration in sharks.

  Ruxton, G. D. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  1/06/17 → 12/07/17

  Project: Studentship

• Austrian Science Fund FWF: FWF grant transfer

  Kosiol, C. (PI)

  1/03/17 → 31/08/17

  Project: Standard

  • High Throughput 100%
  • Computational Time 100%
  • Bayesian Approach 100%
  • Design Experiment 100%
  • Allele 100%

• BioCHANGE: H2020 ERC PoC

  Magurran, A. (PI)

  European Research Council

  1/11/16 → 30/04/18

  Project: Standard

  • Species Richness 100%
  • Climate Change 51%

• Social Brain: H2020 MSCA Fellowship 2015 (Mauricio Gonzalez Forero)

  Gardner, A. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/10/16 → 14/10/18

  Project: Fellowship

  • Brain Size 100%
  • Human Brain 100%

• Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the test

  Dornelas, M. (PI)

  1/09/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Standard

  • Reef 100%
  • Coral Reef 80%
  • Morphology 54%
  • Species Richness 51%
  • Lizard 37%

• Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test

  Lala, K. (PI)

  1/09/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Standard

  • Evolution 100%
  • Natural Selection 93%
  • Cladistics 65%
  • Parental Behavior 48%
  • Evolutionary Adaptation 39%

• Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test

  Gardner, A. (PI)

  1/09/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Standard

  • Walls (Structural Partitions) 100%
  • Building Material 100%
  • Temnothorax 100%
  • Americans 100%
  • Simulation Mode 100%

• Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test

  Ruxton, G. D. (PI)

  1/09/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Standard

  • Social Insect 100%
  • Evolutionary Adaptation 100%
  • Evolution 100%
  • Complex Structure 100%
  • Collective Level 100%

• Leverhulme Fellowship: Predicting behavioural responses to environmental change from stress physiology

  Minderman, J. (PI) & Ruxton, G. D. (CoI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/03/15 → 31/03/18

  Project: Fellowship

• Non Additive genetic variation: Non-additive genetic variation: a neglected explanation for stasis.

  Morrissey, M. B. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/03/15 → 30/09/18

  Project: Standard

• Newton International Fellowship: Culture in whales: transmission of a complex display.

  Garland, E. C. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  27/02/15 → 26/01/17

  Project: Fellowship

  • Humpback Whale 100%
  • Cetacea 86%
  • Megaptera novaeangliae 56%

• Reserved for Michael Morrissey: Empirical application of a non-linear evolutionary quantitative genetic theory.

  Morrissey, M. B. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/12/14 → 30/11/16

  Project: Standard

• Reserved for Maria Azeredo de Dornelas: Reef coral coexistense: biodiversity in space.

  Dornelas, M. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  15/10/14 → 14/10/15

  Project: Standard

  • Coral Reef 100%
  • Reef 100%

• Genomic Invasion: Genomic Invasion and the Role of Behaviour in Rapid Evolution.

  Bailey, N. W. (PI)

  NERC

  1/10/14 → 4/12/20

  Project: Standard

  • Field Cricket 100%
  • Evolution 90%
  • Teleogryllus oceanicus 73%
  • Social Environment 54%
  • Ensifera 45%

• FP7 Marie Curie IEF BIRDNEST: EU FP7 Marie Curie IEF 2013 (Eira Ihalainen )

  Healy, S. (PI)

  Marie Curie Fellowships

  1/10/14 → 30/09/16

  Project: Fellowship

• Royal Society Research Fellowship: A development evolutionary quantitative genetic theory.

  Morrissey, M. B. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/10/14 → 30/09/19

  Project: Fellowship

  • Evolution 100%
  • Genetics 41%
  • Quantitative Genetics 39%

• Leverhulme Trust: Developing a data-driven multi-agent model for studying humpback whale song

  Rendell, L. E. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/04/14 → 31/03/17

  Project: Standard

  • Humpback Whale 100%
  • Learning Parameter 50%
  • Evolutionary Approach 50%
  • Evolutionary Model 50%
  • Population Level 50%

• NERC Fellowship: Understanding major transitions in individuality

  Gardner, A. (PI)

  NERC

  31/03/14 → 30/04/22

  Project: Standard

  • Kin Selection 100%
  • Evolution 98%
  • Intragenomic Conflict 97%
  • Genetics 63%
  • Sex Allocation 58%

• Cognitive decline during ageing: Congnitive decline during ageing: understanding the roles of development and adult stress

  Healy, S. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/01/14 → 31/12/16

  Project: Standard

  • Coturnix Japonica 100%
  • Early Life Stress 100%
  • Corticosterone 95%
  • Glucocorticoid 58%
  • Progeny 50%

• Exploring the Evolutionary Foundations: Exploring the Evolutionary Foundations of Cultural Complexity Creativity and Trust

  Lala, K. (PI)

  1/09/13 → 30/05/16

  Project: Standard

  • Social Learning 100%

• Marie Curie IRSES COBRA: EU FP7 Marie Curie IRSES

  Healy, S. (PI)

  European Commission

  15/08/13 → 14/09/15

  Project: Standard

  • Discrimination 100%
  • Reversal Learning 100%
  • Acridotheres 100%
  • Cognitive Function 50%

• Andy Gardner awaiting trf LM105: University Research Fellowship

  Gardner, A. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/08/13 → 30/09/14

  Project: Fellowship

  • Dynamics 100%
  • Intragenomic Conflict 66%
  • Haplodiploidy 66%
  • Outbreeding 66%
  • Drive 66%

• Genetics and genomics of adaptive sex: The genetics and genomics of adaptive sex ratio behaviour

  Shuker, D. M. (PI) & Ritchie, M. G. (CoI)

  NERC

  7/01/13 → 6/04/16

  Project: Standard

  • Sex Allocation 100%
  • Parasitoid Wasp 80%
  • Parasitoid 64%
  • Nasonia vitripennis 63%
  • Sex Ratio 52%

• Wolfson Research Merit Award 2012 R3: Animal social learning and the evolution of culture

  Lala, K. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/01/13 → 31/12/17

  Project: Standard

• Counter shaded animal patterns: Counter shaded animal patterns From photons to form

  Ruxton, G. D. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/10/12 → 30/09/15

  Project: Standard

  • Computational Modeling 100%
  • Terrestrial Environment 50%
  • Shading 50%
  • Crypsis 50%
  • Quail 50%

• Fellowship - The ecological cultural: The ecological cultural and cognitive context of tool use in New Caledonian crows

  Rutz, C. (PI)

  BBSRC

  2/06/12 → 1/09/15

  Project: Fellowship

  • New Caledonian Crow 100%
  • Corvus 72%
  • Crows 56%

• RS Wolfson Research Merit Award: Biological diversity and evolution in a changing world

  Magurran, A. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/06/12 → 31/05/17

  Project: Standard

  • Species Richness 100%
  • Cerrado 50%
  • Homogenizing 37%
  • Population Abundance 37%

• Understanding animal innovation: Understanding animal innovation

  Lala, K. (PI)

  9/01/12 → 8/01/15

  Project: Standard

  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Brain Size 50%
  • Coevolution 50%
  • Social Learning 50%

• Genomic Evolution in Real Time: Genomic evolution in real time: causes and consequences of an adaptive mutation in the wild

  Bailey, N. W. (PI) & Ritchie, M. G. (CoI)

  NERC

  9/01/12 → 8/01/15

  Project: Standard

  • Field Cricket 100%
  • Teleogryllus oceanicus 81%
  • Evolution 76%
  • Ensifera 45%
  • Gene Expression 45%

• Understanding & predicting diffusion: Understanding and predicting diffusion of innovations in animal populations

  Lala, K. (PI)

  BBSRC

  3/10/11 → 2/10/14

  Project: Standard

  • Social Learning 100%
  • Social Network 55%
  • Facilitated Diffusion 49%
  • Stickleback 34%

• The cognition of nest building: The cognition of nest building

  Healy, S. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/10/11 → 30/09/14

  Project: Standard

  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Nest Building 100%
  • Nesting 83%
  • Zebra Finch 70%
  • Nonapeptide 33%

• Testing genetic models of same-sex: Testing genetic models of same-sex sexual behaviour

  Bailey, N. W. (PI) & Ritchie, M. G. (CoI)

  NERC

  1/10/11 → 31/03/13

  Project: Standard

  • Sexual Behavior 100%
  • Evolution 64%
  • Social Environment 60%
  • Genetic Determinism 50%
  • Genetic Model 50%

• The cognition of nest building: The cognition of nest building

  Healy, S. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/10/11 → 30/09/14

  Project: Standard

  • Nesting 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 95%
  • Nest Building 68%
  • Zebra Finch 63%

• St. Andrews iGEM Team 2011: St. Andrews iGEM Team 2011

  Smith, V. A. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/06/11 → 16/12/11

  Project: Standard