| Benjamin Jarrett Tel: +44 (0)
1223 767 130 Position held: Research Assistant (working with Rebecca Kilner) |
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am currently working as a research assistant to Dr Rebecca
Kilner. I work with burying beetles (Nicrophorus vespilloides),
which are remarkable in the insect world in that they display parental
care and complex social interactions. My work will explore the developmentally-induced
phenotypic plasticity caused by experimentally variable levels of
parental care in N. vespilloides. Prior to Cambridge I graduated from Durham University in 2010 with a BSc in Zoology, focusing on moth diversity and insect communities in my third year. I immediately followed my undergraduate studies with an MSc in Entomology at Imperial College London, furthering my interest in insect biology. My thesis, in collaboration with Prof. Tim Coulson and Dr. David Morgan, concerned the invasion of Homalodisca vitripennis; a cicadellid pest that vectors plant pathogens to several economically important crops in southern California. The California Department of Food and Agriculture have been releasing parasitoid wasps to combat the pest, and have collected over ten years of data, which I analysed to determine the effect of this biological control programme. From January to April 2012, I worked in Borneo with OuTrop, an orang-utan conservation organisation, as the biodiversity intern, collecting data on ant community structure within the peat swamp forest, and helping to collect data on butterfly diversity, and orang-utan and gibbon behaviour. Following this I worked for Prof. Jane Memmott at the University of Bristol on the Urban Pollinator Project. |
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| Benjamin Jarrett |
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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge
CB2 3EJ, U. K.