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Research interests of Academic Staff
- Fiona Bird
- Ecology of marine soft-sediment communities; interactions between
burrowing fauna and sediment biogeochemistry.
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- Michael Clarke:
Behavioural and evolutionary ecology of birds and mammals; conservation biology of birds.
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- 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.
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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.
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- Anne Warren:
- Vertebratepalaeontology and evolution, especially in labyrinthodont amphibians from the
Devonian to the Cretaceous.
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- Richard Zann:
- Avian acoustics and communication; social organisation and mating systems of birds. See
also Zebra Finches.
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