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  • Ageing brains, metabolism and sleep
  • Aging and nutritional stress impacts on cellular processes
  • Brain and behavioural disfunction in interspecific hybrids, and their role in speciation
  • Butterfly banks as miniature conservation interventions
  • Characterising newly discovered neurotransmitter receptors
  • Conservation of wild bees in agricultural landscapes
  • Convergent evolution of social regurgitation across Hymenoptera
  • Eco-evolutionary dynamics of early animals
  • Effects of light microhabitats in shaping species assemblages in tropical forest
  • Epigenetic mechanism of critical period-plasticity in nervous system development
  • Evolution of behavioural mechanisms underpinning spatial memory
  • Evolution of Living Storage – Genomic and Behavioural Analysis of Honeypot Ant Repletism
  • Extreme chromosomal instability in bivalve transmissible cancers
  • Fine-scale community ecology of Antarctic benthic communities
  • Gene family diversification in the black soldier fly
  • Glial cell evolution during brain expansion
  • Functional analysis of in vivo macromolecular complexes
  • Heat stress vulnerability in insects during critical periods of development – understanding mechanisms to find solutions
  • How effective are current conservation policies at reversing insect decline?
  • How has the morphology of moths altered in response to anthropogenic change over the past two centuries?
  • Identifying and characterising novel invertebrate ion channel receptors
  • Lifespan impacts of metabolic division of labour
  • Life on the edge: local adaptation and conservation status of butterflies on the Orme
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  • Phenotypic plasticity of feeding in the leaf-footed bugs
  • Population genomics of invasive Helicoverpa crop pests
  • Predicting the Evolution of Influenza
  • Rare taxa in the early animals of the Ediacaran
  • Regulation of neuronal plasticity by metabolic reactive oxygen species
  • Reproductive and dispersal dynamics of early animals of the Ediacaran
  • Repeated adaptation to altitude in Andean butterflies
  • Reversing defaunation through rewilding and its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem function
  • The effects of nutrition on the insect skeleton
  • The impacts of riparian within oil palm on insect movement and behaviour
  • The mechanisms underlying colour polymorphisms in trumpetfish
  • Towards an Integrative Understanding of Animal Weapons
  • Tracking the past to predict the future
  • Translational regulation via bimolecular condensates

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Dr Robert Asher

  • Associate Professor and Curator, University Museum of Zoology
Available to supervise doctoral students
Dr Robert Asher

Contact

  • 01223 (3)36680
  • rja58@cam.ac.uk

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  • Mammal Evolution and Morphology Group

Location

  • Room 312 Austin Building

About

Please see these webpages for information about my group, publications & research interests:

Mammal Evolution and Morphology Group

Mammal Evolution and Morphology

Teaching and supervision

Available to supervise doctoral students

Department of Zoology

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Downing St Cambridge CB2 3EJ
reception@zoo.cam.ac.uk
+44 (0)1223 336600

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