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Alison Jameson

Alison Jameson

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Name: Alison Jameson
Position: Research assistant
Email: alison.jameson@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Autobiography

I carried out a BAAT (Bachelor of Applied Animal Technology) at Unitec, back home in Auckland, New Zealand finishing in 2005. My undergraduate research focussed on the behaviour and welfare of captive Servals Leptailurus serval and after I graduated I went on to travel extensively in Central/South America and Indonesia, working in several rescue centres whilst also doing some independent research. After a six month stint as a research assistant working in kiwi conservation, I did the MSc in Biology at Oxford University (2008-2009). As part of this course I conducted two research projects-one looking at using biotelemetry methods to assess activity patterns of American Mink and the other in experimental evolution, looking at epistatic interactions amongst deleterious mutations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. I am currently working as a research assistant for Nathalie Seddon and Joe Tobias on speciation and signal evolution in neotropical passerines.

Research Activities

Broadly, my research interests are in sexual selection and social evolution. I am interested in the mechanisms and the role which sexual selection plays in speciation, and also the relative importance of pre- and post-copulatory mechanisms in different systems. I also have a strong interest in social evolution and understanding how, why, and under what conditions different mating and social systems arise.

Selected Recent Papers

Watch this space...