Gill research group
insect ecology & evolution
Past Masters Students
*denotes being on publications or papers in preparation
2022/23
Yuming Shi* - Bee transcriptomics
Ferozah Mahmood* - Pesticide effects on colony thermoregulation in bumblebees
Lucia Hudson* - Trait effects on floral constancy in Arctic bumblebees
Suzannah Eggleston* - Phenological patterns across Arctic plants
Juliet Everson* - Using multidimensional trait analyses to predict plant-pollinator networks
Li Wang - Trait loss or gain over the past century in bees
2021/22
Charlotte McGinty* - Pesticide effects on bee foraging
Claire Tsui* - Role of body size variation in plant-pollinator networks
Nerea Montes Perez* - Century of bumblebee body size responses
Sarah Hudson - Bees in the city
Alan Ward* - Role of bee functional turnover in structuring plant-pollinator networks
Henrique de Sousa - How does ant colony size determine thermal tolerance
Zhitong Han* - Butterfly responses to environmental change
Xinyi Li* - Butterfly responses to environmental change
2020/21
Michael Tansley* - Bumblebee wing shape responses over a century
Aoife Cantwell-Jones* - Bumblebee wing shape asymmetry over a century
Connor Lovell* - Pesticide effects on bumblebee thermogenesis
2019/20
Lottie Gibbons* - Arctic bumblebee community distributions
Rach Dawson - Arctic pollinator network robustness
Freja Gjerstad - Insetcicide x fungicide effects on bees
Stephen Bishop - Bee addiction to pesticides
Emma Eatough* - Body size trends in bumblebees
Xueni Bien* - Trait responses in bumblebees
2018/19
Olivia Bates* - Imperial EEC MRes - Climate change effects on arctic bumblebees
Tara Cox* - Imperial EEC MRes - Climate change effects on arctic bumblebees
Miranda Burke - Imperial EEC MRes - Mosquito pesticide resistance in small island ecosystems
Floriane Coulmance--Gayrard - Imperial EEC MSc - Mosquito breeding behaviour in small island ecosystems
Marcus Rhodes* - Imperial EEC MRes - Trait evolution in bees
Jacob Birkenhead - Imperial EEC MRes - Effective targeting of hairy caterpillars in small islands
Arturo Esteban Pineda* - Nutrition x pesticide effects on bee development
2017/18
Koorosh McCormack - Flower preferences in pesticide-exposed bees
Cecylia Watrobska* - Monofloral versus polyfloral pollen effects on bumblebees
Nicholas Tew* - Pesticide effects on foraging
Elspeth MacKeller - Mosquito distributions in the Maldives
Jenny Dawson - Mosquito distributions in the Maldives
John Paterson - Mosquito distributions in the Maldives
Filippa Erixon* - Nutrition x pesticide effects on bee development
Josefin Gunnarsson* - Nutrition x pesticide effects on bee development
2016/17
Ross Gray* - Deforestation effects on ant assemblage and competition
Chun (Harris) Tso* - Pesticide effects on bee foraging behaviour
2015/16
Jiajun (Stanley) Yu* - Pesticide preferences in bees
Katie Taylor - Bees in agri-landscapes
Sarah Gougeon - Pollen collection by pesticide-exposed bees
Ilaria Pretelli* - Pesticide effects on bumblebee foraging performance
2014/15
Emma Randall* - Pesticide exposure on bee colony development and foraging
Thomas David* - Pesticide exposure on bee colony development and foraging