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Name: Nathalie Seddon
Nationality: British
Status: Married
Email: nathalie.seddon@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Lab website: www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/egi
Date of Birth: 14th January 1974
Address: Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PS
UK
Telepone: +44(0)1865 271202
Fax: +44(0)1865 271168
Current Position: Royal Society University Research Fellow

 

Education
1997-2001 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge: PhD (supervised by Prof. N. B. Davies) entitled "The Ecology, Communication and Conservation of the Subdesert Mesite Monias benschi" (253 pages, 6 data chapters; submitted on 19/02/01, awarded on 09/10/01)
1993-1996 Newnham College, University of Cambridge BA (Hons) - 1st Class (top marks in year)
Appointments
2009 (5+ yr) Tutorial Fellow in Biology, Wadham College, Oxford
2008 (3 yr) Hugh Price Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
2005 (1 yr) Visiting By-Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge
2001 (3 yrs) Junior Research Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge
2001 (1 yr) Gibbs Travelling Research Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge

 

Grants and awards
2009 L'Oréal UK for Women in Science Fellowship
2008 Start-up Grant from the John Fell Fund, Oxford University
2008 Early Careers Grant from the British Ecological Society
2005 Research Grant from the Royal Society
2004 Small Project Grant from the British Ecological Society
2002 Junior Research Fellowship, Newnham College, Cambridge University
2002 Katherine Stott Prize, Newnham College, Cambridge University
2001 Gibbs Travelling Research Fellowship, Newnham College
1997 NERC PhD studentship
1996 'Frank Smart' prize for top mark in final exams; Rajiv Ghandi Travelling Scholarship
1995 & 1994 Scholarships from Newnham College and Worts Society; expedition grants from the British Ecological Society, Royal Geographical Society, BirdLife International/FFI Conservation Expedition programme, British Ornithologists' Union, British Trust for Ornithology, People's Trust for Endangered Species

 

Presentations, invited papers and conference presentations
2009 Hemborg Lecture. Uppsala University, Sweden.
2009 Invited Seminar. Department of Engineering. University of Oxford.
2008 Invited Seminar. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
2008 Invited Seminar. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University.
2008 Invited seminar. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Imperial College, London, UK.
2008 Invited seminar. NERC Centre of Population Biology, Imperial College London, UK.
2008 Avian diversity in Amazonia: exploring the roles of social signals and sexual selection. British Ecological Society Early Careers Conference, Tropical Ecology Group, Oxford , UK.
2008 PlenarySocial signals and speciation in suboscine birds. Edward grey Institute Conference, Oxford, UK.
2007 Sexually selected traits predict species richness in Neotropical suboscine birds. VIII Neotropical Ornithology Congress in Maturin, Venezuela.
2007 Speciation in Neotropical suboscines: the role of mating signals. Invited symposium. Avian speciation. 125th meeting of the AOU, Wyoming, USA.
2005 Invited seminar. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.
2005 Invited seminar. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK.
2004 Bird speciation In Amazonia: divergence in a mating signal acts as an incipient barrier to gene flow. 10th Behavioural Ecology Congress, Jyväskylä, Finland.
2000 Communal singing in the cooperatively breeding mesites: evidence of numerical assessment? 8th Behavioural Ecology Congress, Zurich, Switzerland.

 

Professional service and consultancies
Associate Editor for the Journal of Animal Ecology.

 

Reviewer for >20 journals including American Naturalist, Current Biology, Evolution and Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

 

Reviewer for NSF, NERC, Royal Society, Marsden Research Council, and Cambridge University (JRF applications)

 

Consultant for Threatened Birds of Asia Project, BirdLife International (2001)

 

Teaching experience
2009- Lecturer in Quantitative Methods for Biologists (MSc & undergrad courses)
2006- Lecturer in Environmental Biology (Avian Ecology)
PhD students (Claire Salisury, Ben Daly & Chris Trisos, Oxford)
Masters students (Richard Merrill, Oxford; Job Aben, Radboud University, Netherlands)
Supervising second-year undergraduate courses at Oxford University in Environmental Biology
1996-2005 Supervising first, second and third-year undergraduate courses at Cambridge University: Evolution and Behaviour, Animal Biology, Ecology and Behavioural Ecology, Conservatiom Biology, Population Biology and Mammalian Evolution.
1994-2003 Training Bolivian, Peruvian, Tanzanian and Malagasy co-workers in field and statistical techniques (sound recording, mist-netting, data collection and analysis).

 

Selected field experience
2002-present Principal Investigator for research on signal evolution and speciation in antbirds (Peru, Bolivia and Brazil)
Oct-Dec 2001 Principal Investigator for project on acoustic communication in the pale-winged trumpeter Psophia leucoptera (Peru)
Mar-Dec 1996 Field assistant for study of bronze-winged jacana Metopidius indicus, India
Jun-Oct 1995 Leader of conservation expedition to Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania
Jun-Oct 1994 Co-leader of conservation expedition to Cordillera de Colán, Peru
Mar-Aug 1993 Conservation work for Australian Trust for Conservation Volunteers
Sep-Dec 1992 Member of expedition to Irian Jaya, Indonesia with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

 

Referees
Publications
A full list of publications are available here - Nathalie's publications
 
 
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