Dr Rob Hammond

Lecturer

Leptothorax acervorum: green, blue and pink painted queens, unpainted workers and developing brood

Adrian Building, Room 228b

Telephone:

internal:  5302
external: +44 (0)116 2525302
fax: 0116 2525330

Email: rh225@le.ac.uk

Teaching

• BS3073, Molecular Ecology and Evolution (convenor)
• BS3058, Practical Wildlife Conservation (convenor)
• BS2078, Field Biology: A Field Guide to Evolution (Field trip to Mallorca)
• BS2076, Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
• BS2077, Neurobiology and Animal Behaviour
• BS1070, Adaptation and Diversity

Research

• The evolution of complex traits, such as social organization and sexual mode, and the role of both genes and environment on these traits.
• The effect of gene expression in diploid and haploid life stages / genders on rates of evolution.
• The dynamics and resolution of social conflicts within animal societies.

I am interested in the evolution of complex traits, such as social organization and sexual mode, and the role of both genes and environment on these traits.  I am also interested in the dynamics and resolution of social conflicts within animal societies.

Current projects

• The role of genes and social environment in regulating social organisation (Ben Braim's BBSRC funded PhD studentship, co-supervisor Prof. Bambos Kyriacou, Dept Genetics, University of Leicester)
• RAD marker association mapping of polymorphic social organisation (NBAF627; with Ben Braim, & Dr Yannick Wurm, QMW, U of London)
• The evolution of reproductive mode in mixed mating tapole shrimps, Triops cancriformis (Tom Mathers' NERC CASE funded PhD, with Dr A Gomez, U of Hull & Dr R Jenner, NHM)
• Unmasking the effects of ploidy limited expression (Mark Harrison's NERC funded PhD, co-supervised by Dr Eamonn Mallon, Dept Biology, University of Leicester)
• Faster-haploid? Testing the evolutionary effects of ploidy-limited expression (NBAF829; with Mark Harrison & Dr Eamonn Mallon)