Arthropods

…computational biology focused on arthropods. The appointee will apply artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science and related approaches to basic and/or applied biological questions using arthropods, in areas such as aquatic ecosystems, disease vectors, behaviour, biodiversity, chemical ecology, climate change, ecological forecasting, genetics and genomics, neurobiology and systematics; primarily computational researchers and those comb

The evolution of vision revolutionised animal biology, and eyes have evolved in a stunning array of diverse forms over the past half a billion years. Among these are curious duplicated visual systems, where eyes can be spread across the body and specialised for different tasks. Although it sounds radical, duplicated vision is found in most major groups across the animal kingdom, but remains poorly understood. We will explore how and why animals collect information about their environment in this unusual way, looking at examples from tropical forests to the sea floor, and from ancient arthropod