Mike Siva-Jothy
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Current Research
Curriculum vitae
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Current research
My research interests are largely focussed on sexual conflict, ecological immunology and interactions between reproduction and immunity. These interests are persued using insects as models and key organisms are the damselfly Calopteryx xanthostoma, the flour beetle, Tenebrio molitor, and the bed-bugs. Current projects include:
- Identifying the nature of the interaction between immune traits and sexual signals in a field population of damselflies.
- Examining the reproductive physiology and biology of key members of the Cimicidae.
- Quantifying costs and benefits of traumatic insemination to males and females and identifying the role of the spermalege in the Cimicidae
- Constructing a phylogeny of the Cimicidae
- Examining prophylactic immunity in female cimicids.
- Understanding the temporal management of insect immune effector systems.
Curriculum vitae
| 2006-present | Professor, University of Sheffield, UK. |
| 2003-2006 | Reader, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 2001-2003 | Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 1990-2001 | Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 1989-1990 | Royal Society/JSPS research fellow, Nagoya University, Japan. |
| 1983-1989 | D.Phil., University of Oxford, UK. |
| 1980-1983 | B.Sc., University College London, UK. |