Impact of parasites on life-history trade-offs and demography in scuridae
Dr. Peter Neuhaus
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
Peter Neuhaus grew up in Switzerland where he did his undergrad and graduate education at the University of Bern. His MSc degree was under Prof. Paul Ingold on the impact of tourist activities on the behaviour of the Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) 1988-1990. After working in multiple research projects and traveling the world for 5 years he decided he wanted to have his own project again. Co-supervised by Prof. Jan Murie from the University of Alberta in Edmonton and Prof. Marcel Güntert in Berne he studied the costs of reproduction in female Columbian ground squirrels (Urocitellus columbianus) from 1995-1998. The next five years he was a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Tim Clutton-Brock in Cambridge, UK continuing his work on ground squirrels and collaborating with his wife Kathreen Ruckstuhl on the evolution and ecology of sexual segregation in ungulates, a project leading to a book published by Cambridge University Press. When Kathreen got her faculty position at the University of Calgary he became an adjunct professor while he also worked for four years (2004-2008) as a 50% Assistant Professor at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, where he supervised two Phd- and seven MSc students. Dr. Neuhaus still works mainly as a sessional lecturer and supervise graduate students at the University of Calgary.
Abstract
The unavoidable impact of parasites and the co-evolutionary arms race between parasites and hosts have become an important part of my research. I will present results from parasite removal experiments done in wild populations... [ view full abstract ]
Session
MON-KN » Carlton Herman Fund Speaker (16:30 - Monday, 1st August, Acropolis)
