Skills
R packages:
- Tidyverse for manipulation of dataframes
- lme4, glmmTMB, MASS for running general and generalised linear mixed models
- MuMIn for multi-model inference using an information-theoretic approach
- mvabund for multivariate analysis using matrices as response variables
Bioinformatics in Linux using the command line:
- FastP for aligning taxonomic sequences
- Mothur for assigning sequences to samples
- Unoise3 for identifying and correcting sequence errors
Molecular techniques:
- DNA extraction, PCR for different primer sets, gel electrophoresis, next-generation sequencing library prep
Other:
BTO 'C' Ringing permit for ringing passerines, near-passerines, waders, gull nestlings and adult tits and offspring in nestboxes
Colour ringing lesser black-backed gull chicks, 2019
EDUCATION
2017 - 2021
University College Cork
PhD in Zoology: Cognition and personality when deciding what to eat: foraging plasticity and diet in the great tit (Parus major).
Great tit in Cork, 2019
2016
University of Exeter
Masters by Research: Collective responses to antipredator recruitment calls in the jackdaw (Corvus monedula).
Jackdaw pair, 2019 | Alan McCarthy
2012 - 2015
University of Exeter
BSc Zoology (1st Class Hons). Final year thesis: Colour change and camouflage in the shore crab.
Multispectral image of a shore crab in visible light and in UV, 2015