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52 grant, fellowship and training grant records. Total value of £13,259,400   

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A lifetime of attrition: post-genomic analyses of ecological and evolutionary processes in nematode - vertebrate systems.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor S Paterson, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor J Hopkins, University of Edinburgh, Roslin Institute
Co-Investigator:
Professor ME Viney, University of Liverpool, Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour
Co-Investigator:
Professor S Piertney, University of Aberdeen, Inst of Biological and Environmental Sci
Co-Investigator:
Professor JM Pemberton, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor J Slate, University of Sheffield, School of Biosciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor PJ Diggle, Lancaster University, Medicine
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Feb 2006 - 31 Aug 2009
Value:
£302,348
NERC Reference:
NE/D000645/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Post Genomics




Climate change and management of forest biodiversity: predicting the impacts of climate matching strategies on plant-herbivore-enemy interactions.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor G Stone, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2012
Value:
£152,823
NERC Reference:
NE/H000038/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
EHFI


Community-wide analysis of horizontal symbiont transmission: oak gallwasps as a model system.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor G Stone, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Prof. F Jiggins, University of Cambridge, Department of Genetics
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
1 Mar 2006 - 31 Dec 2006
Value:
£53,425
NERC Reference:
NE/D007178/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Small Grants (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Small Grants





Ecology of learning during the early stages of coral reef fish life histories: effects of the environment, and development of population models.

Fellowship Award

Fellow:
Professor SD Simpson, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
1 Oct 2004 - 30 Sep 2007
Value:
£137,220
NERC Reference:
NE/B501720/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Postdoctoral Fellow
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Postdoctoral Fellowship



Evolution of elaborate parental care: genetic architecture and selection

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr PT Smiseth, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor L Kruuk, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
1 Aug 2009 - 31 Jan 2013
Value:
£353,608
NERC Reference:
NE/G004293/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant




Explaining responses to climate change in a wild vertebrate population

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor L Kruuk, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor JM Pemberton, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor DH Nussey, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Dec 2011 - 30 Sep 2015
Value:
£464,633
NERC Reference:
NE/I024925/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Exploiting terrestrial sentinel and model species to integrate tiers of biological response to pollution.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor P Kille, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Dr D Lamb, Aberystwyth University, IBERS
Co-Investigator:
Professor S Sturzenbaum, King's College London, Analytical & Environmental Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor SL Kelly, Swansea University, Institute of Life Science Medical School
Co-Investigator:
Dr AJ Morgan, Cardiff University, School of Biosciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor PM Brophy, Aberystwyth University, IBERS
Co-Investigator:
Professor J Barrett, Aberystwyth University, IBERS
Co-Investigator:
Professor ML Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Tree of Life
Co-Investigator:
Professor DJ Spurgeon, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Pollution (Wallingford)
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Split Award
Period of Award:
9 Dec 2002 - 8 Mar 2006
Value:
£217,975
NERC Reference:
NER/T/S/2002/00161
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Environmental Genomics


Genetic constraints on adaptive sex allocation behaviour.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor S West, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Dr S Knott, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
6 Dec 2005 - 5 Dec 2008
Value:
£256,578
NERC Reference:
NE/C51932X/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Genomic approaches to inference of population history and multispecies community assembly

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor G Stone, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Dr KR Lohse, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Jan 2013 - 31 May 2016
Value:
£401,185
NERC Reference:
NE/J010499/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant


Host-associated population substructure in generalist parasitoids: cynipid oak gall communities as a model system.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor G Stone, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Dr S Nee, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Dr K Schonrogge, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Biodiversity (Wallingford)
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
14 Dec 2004 - 13 Dec 2007
Value:
£325,915
NERC Reference:
NE/B504406/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant



Linkage disequilibrium and sequence polymorphism in S-locus haplotypes of the self-incompatible plant Arabidopsis lyrata.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor D Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
24 Jan 2003 - 23 Jan 2006
Value:
£239,049
NERC Reference:
NER/T/S/2002/00173
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Environmental Genomics

Linking genomes to ecology: Molecular evolution of the immune-related genome of Daphnia pulex.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor T Little, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor ML Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Tree of Life
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
1 Oct 2005 - 31 Oct 2009
Value:
£321,251
NERC Reference:
NE/C511213/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant




Population genomics of Daphnia: mapping the 'arms-race genome'

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr DJO Obbard, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor T Little, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
1 Jun 2012 - 1 Oct 2016
Value:
£347,624
NERC Reference:
NE/J010790/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

QTL mapping in natural populations using linkage and linkage disequilibrium.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor JM Pemberton, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor J Slate, University of Sheffield, School of Biosciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor P Visscher, University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
28 Apr 2003 - 27 Aug 2006
Value:
£457,579
NERC Reference:
NER/T/S/2002/00189
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Environmental Genomics



Selection in a complex world: reconciling predicted and observed responses to natural selection.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor JM Pemberton, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor L Kruuk, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor M Crawley, Imperial College London, Biology
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
1 Feb 2005 - 31 Jan 2010
Value:
£418,421
NERC Reference:
NER/A/S/2003/00461
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Sequencing a Soil Sentinel (SeqaWorm)

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor P Kille, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor ML Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Tree of Life
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Apr 2008 - 31 Mar 2010
Value:
£55,138
NERC Reference:
NE/F001185/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Directed (Research Programmes)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Post Genomics & Proteomics

Sexually-antagonistic effects in red deer

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor L Kruuk, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor JM Pemberton, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor TH Clutton-Brock, University of Cambridge, Zoology
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
1 Apr 2008 - 29 Feb 2012
Value:
£489,560
NERC Reference:
NE/E017053/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant






The ecology of evolution: the role of environmental heterogeneity in evolutionary dynamics.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor JM Pemberton, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor L Kruuk, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Co-Investigator:
Professor AJ Wilson, University of Exeter, Biosciences
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Feb 2010 - 31 Jul 2015
Value:
£505,550
NERC Reference:
NE/G004854/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant





Using Y chromosome haplotype diversity to test for selection within and between natural populations of the plant Silene latifolia.

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor D Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Professor D Filatov, University of Oxford, Biology
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Lead Split Award
Period of Award:
1 Nov 2004 - 31 Oct 2007
Value:
£230,796
NERC Reference:
NE/B504230/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grants Pre FEC
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant

Using multispecies evolutionary history to test hypotheses of community assembly

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Professor G Stone, University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Co-Investigator:
Dr A Rambaut, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Biological Sciences
Grant held at:
University of Edinburgh, Inst of Evolutionary Biology
Period of Award:
14 Dec 2007 - 13 Jun 2011
Value:
£460,283
NERC Reference:
NE/E014453/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Standard Grant (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Standard Grant


52 grant, fellowship and training grant records. Total value of £13,259,400   

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