Recent Postdocs
Post-doc with Braithwaite (PI) 2004-2006
Title: Can fish suffer?
We used a series of approaches to investigate whether fish have the capacity for suffering. We combined basic measures of physiology and behaviour to quantify how fish react to potentially stressful or noxious stimuli. For example, how different types of lab procedure (e.g. netting, handling etc.) affect fish
Current Position: Post-doctoral Researcher, Vet School, Glasgow University, U.K.
Related Publications:
Boulcott P. & Braithwaite, V. A. (in press) Shifts in colour perception in three-spined stickleback: the sexes are not so different after all. Evolutionary Ecology Online doi:10.1007/s10682-006-9138-4.
Braithwaite, V. A. & Boulcott, P. (in press) Pain perception and fear in fish. Diseases in Aquatic Organisms
Braithwaite, V. A. & Boulcott P. (in press) Can fish suffer? In ‘Fish welfare’ Ed. E. Branson, Blackwell Publishing, London.
Simone Meddle
BBSRC Research Grant with Sue Healy (PI) 2004-2005
Title:Neural substrates for spatial and non-spatial memory in food-storing birds
Current Position: Lecturer, Edinburgh University, U.K.
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Culum Brown
NERC Research Grant with Victoria Braithwaite (PI) 2001-2005
Title:How does predation pressure influences cognition?
We studied different natural populations of the Panamanian poeciliid, Brachyraphis episcopi which inhabit sites that vary in predation pressure to investigate how ecology affects cognitive ability. We used both controlled laboratory experiments and more natural field experiments. The fieldwork is done in Panama in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the laboratory work is done in Edinburgh where we have successfully established a number of different populations of Brachyraphis episcopi.
Current Position: Lecturer in Animal Behaviour, Macquarie University, Australia
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Jonathan Daisley
BBSRC Research Grant with Sue Healy (PI) 2005-2006
Neural substrates for spatial and non-spatial memory in food-storing birds.
