| Post: | Professor of Molecular Ecology |
| Location: | Crpc 5.03 |
| Email: | T.J.C.Beebee@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 2690 |
| UK: | (01273) 872690 |
| International: | +44 1273 872690 |
Biography
Background:
BSc Upper 2nd class honours in Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia (1969)
PhD in Biochemistry, University of Sussex (1972)
Postdoctoral research fellow at University College London, 1972-76
Lecturer at Sussex since 1976
Key responsibilities:
Course Organiser:
- Biochemistry of Gene Expression
- Genetics for Ecologists
- Molecular Ecology and Evolution
Degree Programme Convenor: Biochemistry with Management Studies
External Activities:
Editorial Review Board member, Molecular Ecology
Trustee, Herpetological Conservation Trust
Trustee, Amphibian Conservation Research Trust
President, British Herpetological Society
Research
Molecular ecology and conservation biology of amphibians
The use of polymorphic genetic markers, especially microsatellite loci, to investigate the population structures of wild amphibians in Britain and Europe. The application of genetical and ecological approaches to the conservation of amphibians and their habitats. The significance of genetic variation in the long- term viability of amphibian populations and the consequences of isolation and inbreeding.
Teaching
- Cellular Biochemistry
- Research Methods in Biochemistry
- Genetics for Ecologists
- Cell Regulation and Cancer
- Clinical Aspects of Biochemistry
- Biochemistry of Gene Expression
- Molecular Ecology and Evolution
- Conservation in Practice
- Biodiversity Survey (MSc)
Selected publications
2007
Defining population boundaries: use of three Bayesian approaches with microsatellite data from British natterjack toads (Bufo calamita) (with Graham Rowe) in Molecular Ecology Volume 16 pp. 785-796
2006
Lusitania revisited: a phylogeographic analysis of the natterjack toad Bufo calamita across its entire biogeographical range (with Graham Rowe and Harris JD) in Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution Volume 39 pp. 335-346
2005
Conservation genetics of amphibians in Heredity Chapman & Hall Volume 95 pp. 423-427 ISBN 412624109
Low gene flow but high genetic diversity in the threatened Mallorcan midwife toad Alytes muletensis (with R A Griffiths, F. Kraaijeveld-Smit and R.D. Moore) in Molecular Ecology Harpercollins: Harpercollins Volume 14 pp. 3307-3315 ISBN 000220083x
2004
An Introduction to Molecular Ecology (with G Rowe) Oxford University Press, 346 pp. ISBN 0199248575
2002
Ecological responses to recent climate change (with Walthers, G R et al) in Nature Volume 416 pp. 389-395