Expertise:
- Lab management, health and safety compliance, high speed video capture and insect rearing
FLYSY Laboratory website
Education
- BSc Zoology, University of Glasgow, 2012
- MSc Entomology, Harper Adams University, 2014
Research statement
Working in insect behaviour and rearing, with emphasis on predatory diptera
Recent/relevant publications
Fabian, ST, Sumner, ME, Wardill, TJ, Rossoni, S, Gonzalez-Bellido, PT (2018). Interception by two predatory fly species is explained by a proportional navigation feedback controller. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 15, 20180466.
Vuts, J., Woodcock, C.M., Sumner, M.E., Caulfield, J.C., Reed, K., Inward, D.J., Leather, S.R., Pickett, J.A., Birkett, M.A. and Denman, S., 2016. Responses of the two‐spotted oak buprestid, Agrilus biguttatus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), to host tree volatiles. Pest management science, 72(4), pp.845-851.