Professor Stephen Rossiter

Undergraduate Teaching

• Mammals and Evolution (BIO331)

Postgraduate Teaching

Teaching on our Ecology and Evolutionary Biology MSc and Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics MSc: 

• Research Frontiers in Evolutionary Biology (BIO731P)

Teaching on our Ecology and Evolutionary Biology MSc:

• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology field course (BIO792P)

Research

Research Interests:

I am interested in the causes and consequences of genetic structure, from the level of individuals to populations through to species.

My research mainly focuses on bats, which number over 1,100 species, and range from solitary to highly social forms. I am especially interested in how populations diverge, and the mechanisms by which reproductive isolation is achieved in this process.

Current projects include a long-term study the mating and social behaviour in greater horseshoe bats, a comparative investigation of the impact of social organisation on gene flow in continuous bat populations, and the function of hearing genes in the evolution of echolocation, and their role in bat speciation. To address these and similar questions, I use both molecular approaches (microsatellite genotyping and sequencing) and ecological methods (radio tracking, mark-recapture, echolocation recording).

I am involved in collaborative studies in UK, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and China, and my work is funded by the Royal Society and the Natural Environment Research Council.

• Find out more on the Rossiter laboratory website

Research Department

• Biology

Publications

• Browse a list of publications by Stephen Rossiter
• See Stephen Rossiter's Google Scholar Citations

Supervision

Current PhD opportunities

• Evolutionary genomics in ants
• Molecular adaptations underpinning dietary specialisations in wild vertebrates

PhD supervision

• Sabhrina Aninta
• Said Ismael Ng'ang'a

Postdoctoral supervision

• Nicholas Nesi