| October 2021 | Welcome back to Ming Ye who has started his PhD in the lab, and welcome to Nathaniel Wright who has started his MPhil. |
| September 2021 | Dr Nishant Kumar, Prof Nicky Clayton, Dr Gabrielle Davidson and Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) won a seed grant of £15000 from the University of Oxford’s Global Challenges Research Funds through IndOx (India - Oxford) Initiative. This grant will help CCL to work in collaboration with the PAWS-Web (www.PAWS-Web.site) founded by Dr Kumar in September 2020. |
| August 2021 | Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) finished her 2-year role with CCL as Postdoc Research Associate/ Lab Manager and has started a new Visiting Researcher role with the Dept of Psychology, Cambridge University. |
| January 2021 |
We've been having fun and being creative in our online lab meetings, including playing our version of "Would I Lie To You?/ Two Truths, One Lie" and re-creating famous artist/ album covers. For example, first photo (above, top) showing some fantastic re-creations of Queen's album cover (Queen II, image from: artnet.com) and second photo (above, lower) showing re-creations of Henry VIII (image from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII). |
| January 2021 | Dr Alizée Vernouillet has started a new Postdoctoral Researcher position at Ghent University in Prof. Frederick Verbrugghen's Ctrl-ImpAct lab - congrats Alizée! |
| December 2020 | Congratulations to Dr Pauline Billard who successfully completed her PhD! |
| October 2020 | Welcome to Francesca Cornero and James Davies, who have started their PhDs in the lab, and Ming Ye, who has started his MPhil with the lab. |
| September 2020 | One of our Postdocs, Dr Luigi Baciadonna, has just accepted a new role at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy, our Research Associate/ Lab Manager (maternity cover), Dr María Cabrera, has just started a new Researcher role with the FishEthoGroup, Faro, Portugal and our most recent PhD graduate, Dr Piero Amodio, has started a Postdoc role at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy - congrats Luigi, Maria and Piero! |
| August 2020 | We welcome back Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) from maternity leave, returning to the role of Research Associate and Lab Manager. |
| November 2019 | Congratulations to Dr Rachel Crosby who successfully completed her PhD! |
| October 2019 | Welcome to Jamie DuBois who has just started her PhD, Emily Danby, who is joining us as a BBSRC Lab Rotation Doctoral Student, and Francesca Cornero, who is doing a Masters with the lab. |
| August 2019 | Welcome to Dr Alizée Vernouillet as new Research Assistant, and Dr María Cabrera as Lab Manager and Research Associate (maternity cover). |
| October 2018 | Congratulations to Prof Nicky Clayton, who will be the 2019 President of the British Science Association, Psychology section. |
| October 2018 |
Dr Anna Frohnwieser and Dr Camille Troisi are going to have a stand with ASAB at the Big Biology Day in Cambridge (photo below). Come and see us to talk about corvid cognition! |
| September 2018 | Congratulations to Dr Alex Schnell for her Newton International Fellowship. She will be comparing the capacity for self-control and future-planning in cephalopods and corvids. |
