Current Member - Professor Lord Krebs, of Wytham FRS
Faculty Member: Professor of Zoology.
Lord Krebs
Details
Name: Professor Lord Krebs, of Wytham Kt FRS F Med Sci Hon D Sc
Position: Professor of Zoology
Email: Email Lord Krebs' secretary
Autobiography
Since October 2005 I have been Principal of Jesus college, Oxford. Between 1988 and Sep 2005, I held a Royal Society Research Professorship in the Department of Zoology, Oxford University. I am an honorary Fellow of Pembroke College. Between 1994 and 1999, I was Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council and in January 2000 was appointed as the first Chairman of the UK Food Standards Agency. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Medical Academy of Sciences, a member of Academia Europaea and of the Max Planck Society, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society, and Foreign Honorary Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. In 2007 I chaired a working party of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics to produce a report on the Ethics of Public Health (click here). I sit in the House of Lords as an independent cross-bencher and am currently chairing an enquiry by the Science and Technology Select Committee into Nanotechnology and Food. I am also a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation, Chairman of the UK Science and Technology Honours Committee, Chairman of the Royal Society's Science Policy Advisory Group,a member of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, a Trustee of the St Andrew's Prize for the Environment, a member of the Balzan Foundation General Prize Committee and President-Elect of Campden BRI.
Research Activities
Science and policy.
Behavioural ecology. In recent years I have directed research on the ecology of farmland birds with a view towards explaining long-term population trends.
Selected Recent Papers
Krebs, J.R., May, R.M. & Stumpf, M.P.H. 2002. Theoretical models of sheep BSE reveal possibilities but we must remember that these theories are based on speculation, not on fact. Nature 415, 115.
Hole, D.G., Whittingham, M.J., Bradbury, R.B., Anderson, G.Q.A., Lee, P.M., Wilson, J.D. & Krebs, J.R. 2002. Widespread local extinctions of house sparrows. Nature 418, 931-932.
Bradbury, R.B., Payne, R.J.H., Wilson, J.D. & Krebs, J.R. 2001. Predicting population responses to resource management. T.R.E.E. 16, 440-445.
Lee, P.L.M., Bradbury, R.B., Wilson, J.D., Flanagan, N.S., Richardson, L., Perkins, A.J., Krebs, J.R. 2001. Microsatellite variation in the yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella: population structure of a declining farmland bird. Molecular Ecology 10, 1633-1644.
Biegler, R., McGregor, A., Krebs, J.R. & Healy, S.D. 2001. A larger hippocampus is associated with longer lasting spatial memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) 98, 6941-6944.
J.R. Krebs and N.B. Davies (Eds.) 1997. Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach (4th Edition), 456 pp. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
Stephens, D.W. and Krebs J.R. 1986. Foraging Theory. Princeton Monographs in Behavior and Ecology No. 4. 247pp. Princeton University Press.
