The Sumner lab seeks to understand how and why sociality and social behaviour evolves, from the genome to the phenotype, through the interplay of genes, behaviour and the environment. Our study organisms are wasps, bees, termites and ants.
Current Postdocs and Reasearch Technicians
Dr Cintia Akemi Oi – NERC Project
Dr Christopher Wyatt – Project lead – Eco-Flow: Building a bioinformatics ecosystem for ecologists
Dr Benjamin A Taylor – Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship
Dr Alex Cerqueira De Araujo – Senior Bioinformatician – NERC Project
Fernando Duarte Frutos – Senior Research Technician – Eco-Flow: Building a bioinformatics ecosystem for ecologists
Current PhD Students
Iona Cunningham-Eurich – Generalism and specialism in parasitoid wasps: evolutionary, genomic and behavioural perspectives. London NERC DTP. Co-supervisor: Dr Gavin Broad, Natural History Museum.
Romuald Tcheutchoua – Harnessing native social wasps as biocontrol agents for smallholder agriculture.
Idris Adams – Metapopulations of solitary wasps in a dynamic environment. London NERC DTP. Co-supervisor: Prof Tim Blackburn, University College London.
Femi E Benny – Ecology and behaviour of Asian giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia). UCL RES. Secondary supervisor: Dr Cintia Akemi Oi, University College London.
Caroline Chandler
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