Pre-holiday preprint! We experimentally manipulated resource availability in a wild rodent population and found pervasive effects on host biology and diverse effects across the parasite community in a naturally co-infected host. Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thanks to co-authors @gfalbery.bsky.social, Saudamini, Agata, Andy, @simonab.bsky.social & @amypedersen.bsky.social for their help evolving this project that is near and dear to me over the years!
Pre-holiday preprint! We experimentally manipulated resource availability in a wild rodent population and found pervasive effects on host biology and diverse effects across the parasite community in a naturally co-infected host. Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland?
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Delighted to have this preprint out! It's been a long time in the works, involved a lot of fun discussion, and was a wonderful collaboration with Colin & Cecilia to get it from conception to final form.
Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)
We are excited to announce a support scheme for ECRs wishing to attend ESEB 2025 and participate in the WAME-sponsored symposium “Contribution of the microbiome to host adaptation and plasticity”
See here for more details and please share!
www.wamestn.com/eseb-2025
Re-upping before the holiday lull - please do contact if interested and share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system?
Check out a PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's.
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...