Research interests of Academic Staff

Fiona Bird
Ecology of marine soft-sediment communities; interactions between burrowing fauna and sediment biogeochemistry.
 
Michael Clarke:
Behavioural and evolutionary ecology of birds and mammals; conservation biology of birds.
 
Peter Frappell:
Respiratory physiology; metabolic and thermoregulatory adaptation to environment in a range of animal models.
Graham Lamb:
Muscle Cell Research Group
Ionic currents and electrical signals in excitable cells; control of calcium release in normal and diseased muscle.
Brian Malone:
Evolution and ecology of fish, amphibians and reptiles; freshwater ecology; and herpetology.
Tim New:
Systematics and ecology of Neuroptera, Psocoptera, Lepidoptera; insect host-plant relationships; insect predator-prey relationships; conservation of insects and other invertebrates; insect biogeography.
 
George Stephenson:
Muscle Cell Research Group
Physiology of vertebrate and invertebrate muscle; mechanism of contraction and citation-contraction coupling in skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle and of regulation of contraction in normal and diseased muscle; Ca2+-movements in muscle cells associated with contraction; Ca2+-dependent luminescence; intracellular Ca2+indicators; motile systems in non-muscle cells.
 
Anne Warren:
Vertebratepalaeontology and evolution, especially in labyrinthodont amphibians from the Devonian to the Cretaceous.
 
Richard Zann:
Avian acoustics and communication; social organisation and mating systems of birds. See also Zebra Finches.