New and 'old' students in the lab

Lyndon 'Alex' Jordan started his PhD in the lab working on guppies and the cost of sexual signalling, and Misha Donohue finished her Honours. Welcome and congrats!

E&ERC

The official homepage of the new centre:
http://www.eerc.unsw.edu.au/

New centre & Uppsala ahoi

Groundbreaking news since the last entry:
we're now part of the 'Evolution & Ecology Research Centre' within BEES and the first new appointment was that of Russell Bonduriansky as a lecturer in the new centre.
Visit his new webspace at: http://www.bonduriansky.net/

Some of us are going to ESEB in Uppsala next week and it will be good to catch up with everybody there.

Visitor from Uppsala

Johanna Rönn is visiting the lab. Johanna is a member of Alexeis former lab group at Uppsala and she'll be doing some work on crickets while she is here.

Conference of the Australasian Evolution Society at UNSW

 The next meeting of the Australasian Evolution Society will be held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney from the evening of Tuesday 12th June to the night of Friday 15th June 2007.

Call for registration and papers has started!

Our plenary speakers will be:

· Lindell Bromham (Australian National University)
· Scott V. Edwards (Harvard University)
· Paul B. Rainey (The University of Auckland)
· Michael Ruse (Florida State University)

For more details go to
http://aes.eriophora.com.au/events/2ndannouncement.htm

Prof. Marion Petrie visits the lab on the 9/1/2007

First guest in 2007 will be Marion Petrie, who is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK.