Annie Aulsebrook just had another first-author paper come out. In JEZ-A, Annie provides a comprehensive and original review on the effects of light pollution on sleep in humans and wildlife. Well done, Annie!
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Visiting Scientists
The last couple of days we were fortunate enough to host Associate Professor Bruno van Swinderen from the Queensland Brain Institute, and Dr Vanessa Kellerman from Monash University to discuss future studies on sleeping flatworms and fruit flies. What an amazing opportunity for us! [Left-to-right: John Lesku, Vanessa Kellerman, Bruno van Swinderen, Robin Johnsson, ErikaContinue reading “Visiting Scientists”
New Publication
A BIG Congratulations to soon-to-be-Dr Alynn Martin from the University of Tasmania on her latest article! Here, Alynn provides a comprehensive investigation into the effects of mange on wombats in Narawntapu National Park. Infrared thermographic analyses to measure heat loss from living animals, doubly labelled water to quantify field metabolic rates, accelerometry data logging toContinue reading “New Publication”
Newest PhD Students!
It is my pleasure to welcome Shauni Omond (left) and Robin Johnsson (right) to the lab. Our newest PhD students!
New Publication
Here, Linh and I give an invited review on the recent characterization of sleep in jellyfish by Nath et al. (2017) Current Biology. Speaking of Linh… Congratulations on graduating and for the next big steps in your life. I still wish you were staying around for a PhD, but am excited to hear of yourContinue reading “New Publication”
New Publication
Part of a Special Issue on “Wild Clocks”, we outline the methodologies involved for measuring “Wild Sleep“: Niels Rattenborg, Horacio de la Iglesia, Bart Kempenaers, John Lesku, Peter Meerlo and Madeleine Scriba, “Sleep research goes wild: new methods and approaches to investigate the ecology, evolution and functions of sleep”. This makes for an excellent companionContinue reading “New Publication”
New Publication
Congratulations to Shauni Omond, Linh Ly and colleagues for the newly-published paper in the journal SLEEP demonstrating sleep in platyhelminth flatworms!
New Publication
Congratulations, Ryan Tisdale, on your latest publication!
New Honourable Bachelor
Linh Ly just successfully defended her Honours thesis on the “Activity patterns of jellyfish“. Well done, Linh, on the well deserved first-class Honours!
Congratulations Alicia Dimovski and Shauni Omond…
…now with Honours!
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