We’ve been celebrating the success of two of our group lately.

Firstly, a huge congratulations to Simon Connolly for handing in his PhD thesis for examination end of March. Simon has put together a fantastic piece of work on the mating behaviour and mechanisms of introgression on two Aotearoa New Zealand fishing spiders.

Secondly, Zita Roithmair successfully confirmed her enrollment last week & is now an official PhD student in the lab. Zita gave a really convincing seminar on why she’s exploring a complex systems approach to understanding the evolution of animal mating systems. Like Simon, she’ll be working on fishing spiders too, hopefully with some fun field work involved.