Dear all,
The next Molecular Ecology Lab meeting will take place on October 6th at 2pm in the Common Room, D floor, Alfred Denny Building. We have two speakers this month, Becca Thomas and Ghaniya Bi.
Becca Thomas will present a talk entitled:
Are parasite infections a threat to the European Turtle dove?
Becca is a final year PhD student at the University of Leeds. She is researching whether the parasite Trichomonas gallinae is having an impact on the declining population of European Turtle doves in the UK. Her work at NBAF uses molecular tools to detect and identify strains of parasite in bird and environmental samples and she is testing the suitability of the MiSeq for this particular usage. She would also like to discuss the potential for detecting parasites in museum specimens.
Ghaniya Bi will present a talk entitled:
Does genetic relatedness predict spatial structure within European bee-eaters (Merops apiaster)?
Ghaniya is a Genetics society project student. She will look at cooperative breeding in a Croatian population of European bee-eaters. More specifically, she will discuss whether relatives live closer together than unrelated individuals in this population, which is an important factor as relatedness facilitates cooperation.
All the best,
Emma and Natalie