Lab alumni
Anupama Prakash - Postdoc 2022-2024 HFSP funded project “Revealing the interplay of genetics and biomechanics underlying butterfly scale morphogenesis”
Ateah Alfakih - PhD 2024, The geographical variation in colouration-based behaviours of the Arabian killifish (Aphaniops dispar). (with Penelope Watt) eThesis
Veronika Shkaraburova - MRes 2024, The investigation of the functional role of four genes in the development of butterfly wing scales
Holly Fairhurst - MBiolSci 2024, Investigating the effects of thermal stress on the structural and pigment colours of two neotropical butterflies
Tien Nguyen - PhD 2023, Exploring phenotypic and transcriptomic responses of Heliconius butterflies to temperature across altitudes and between species eThesis (NERC ACCE funded)
Hazel Dudley - MBiolSci 2023, Measuring beta diversity of tropical Nymphalid butterfly communities in Ecuador across vertical, spatial and temporal scales
Silas Biggin - MBioSci 2023, Evolution of Cortex in Lepidoptera and Cortex structure within a Chetone histrio inversion
Frane Babarovic - PhD 2022, The drivers and mechanisms of plumage colour evolution (with Gavin Thomas and Chris Cooney) eThesis
Anna Coales – MBiolSci 2022, Exploring the structure and development of the androconial region of Heliconius sara butterflies.
Merie Aboudi – MBiolSci 2022, Variation across an altitudinal cline in the red colour and melanisation of Heliconius erato hindwings
Juan Enciso – PhD 2022, Variation in scale structure, structural colour and its genetic basis in two co-mimic species of Heliconius butterflies eThesis (Leverhulme CABM funded)
Imogen Elliott – MRes 2021, The effects of rearing temperature on development and adult thermal tolerance in the tropical butterfly, Heliconius sara
Eve Scott – MRes 2021, The role of iridescent structural colour in male preference in Heliconius sara
Luke Richardson – MBiolSci 2021, Variation across an altitudinal cline in the red wing patches of two neotropical butterflies, Heliconius erato and Heliconius melpomene
Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich – PhD 2021, The genetic basis for altitudinal adaptation in Heliconius butterflies (with Chris Jiggins, University of Cambridge)
Jonathan Wood – MRes 2020, The thermoregulatory ability of Heliconius butterflies at different elevations in the Andes
Sophie Smith – Postgraduate Research Assistant 2020
Harriet Smith – MBiolSci 2020, The importance of iridescent structural colour for mate choice in Heliconius sara butterflies.
Rory Cooper – PhD 2020, The evolution and development of shark scales (with Gareth Fraser)
Gonzalo Castiella Ona – Erazmus+ intern 2019
Melanie Brien – PhD 2019, The genetics and evolution of iridescence and structural colour in Heliconius butterflies. eThesis (NERC ACCE funded)
Hannah Bainbridge – MBiolSci 2019, Convergent evolution of quantitative pattern variation in mimetic butterflies.
Shaun Goodall – MBiolSci 2019, Using gene expression data to identify genes controlling iridescent structural colour.
Emma Curran – PhD 2018, An exploration of the parallel evolution of iridescent structural colour in Heliconius butterflies. eThesis (NERC ACCE funded)
Jennifer Smith – MBiolSci 2018, Morphological variation in Heliconius butterflies over altitudinal gradients.
Dirleane Ottonelli Rossato, visitor from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Do agricultural practices affect butterfly dispersal and genetic diversity?
Anna Puttick – MBiolSci 2017, Sexual dimorphism in structural and pigmentary colour in the co-mimetic butterflies Heliconius erato and Heliconius melpomene.
Thomas Gomersall – MBiolSci 2017, Are Heliconius butterflies capable of social learning?
Amruta Tendolkar – Genes and Development Summer Studentship 2016, Expression of the novel colour patterning gene Cortex
Gracie Adams – Summer Internship 2016, Morphological and genetic diversity in populations of the butterfly Heliconius sara
Adam Gillis – MBiolSci 2016, Assortative mating and sexual dichromatism in Heliconius erato cyrbia.
James Bradford – NERC ACCE research experience placement 2015, The Diversity of wing scale structure responsible for structural colour in Heliconius