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Tel: +44 (0)
1223 334 466 Position held:
Research Technician |
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am employed in the Behavioural Ecology Group as a Research Technician
for Dr Rebecca Kilner and Dr
Giuseppe Boncoraglio; supporting
their research in cooperation, conflict and mutualism in burying beetles
(Nicrophorus vespilloides). I help to maintain the laboratory
colony of burying beetles with feeding, breeding, cleaning, occasionally
collecting wild individuals from local woods, and provide technical
assistance with data collection. After a Bachelors degree in Zoology, I completed an MRes in Conservation and Biodiversity, both at the University of Leeds. My research projects mostly involved entomological work, using insects either as models or as direct measures. As such, I developed insect husbandry techniques which are useful for my current position. As well as my time spent working for an ecological consultancy as a field surveyor, I have experience of ecological fieldwork mainly in collecting and identifying invertebrate species, and measuring densities and distributions of ungulates and various birds. These projects have been carried out over British moorland, marshland, woodland and coastal areas (and all the British weather that goes with them!) as well as work in African Acacia savannah (in Kenya), temperate bush land (in South Africa) and tropical low-land forest (in Northern Borneo) |
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| Amy Backhouse |
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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge
CB2 3EJ, U. K.