Biography

After completing a PhD in locust limb control at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK, I stayed in Cambridge to work as a post-doc on fly photoreceptors. In 2005, I moved to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama to work as a Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Evolutionary Behaviour and Neuroscience before returning to Cambridge to take-up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. In 2011, I moved my laboratory to the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex.

Role

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Community and Business

Editorial Advisory Boards:

Brain, Behavior & Evolution (2010-2012)

Biological Reviews (2010-2012)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2013-)

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Essential skills in the Life Sciences Tutorials

Action Potential Seminar

Student Consultation

Tuesday and Thursday afternoons 2-5pm

Perge, János A, Niven, Jeremy, Mugnaini, Enrico, Balasubramanian, Vijay and Sterling, Peter (2012) Why do axons differ in caliber? Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (2). pp. 626-638. ISSN 1529-2401

Sengupta, Biswa, Stemmler, Martin, Laughlin, Simon B and Niven, Jeremy E (2010) Action potential energy efficiency varies among neuron types in vertebrates and invertebrates. PLoS Computational Biology, 6. e1000840.

Niven, Jeremy E, Buckingham, Christian J, Lumley, Sheila, Cuttle, Matthew F and Laughlin, Simon B (2010) Visual targeting of forelimbs in ladder-walking locusts. Current Biology, 20. pp. 86-91.

Seid, Marc A, Scheffrahn, Rudolf H and Niven, Jeremy E (2008) The rapid mandible strike of a termite soldier. Current Biology, 18. R1049-50.

Niven, Jeremy E and Scharlemann, Jörn P W (2005) Do insect metabolic rates at rest and during flight scale with body mass? Biology Letters, 1 (3). pp. 346-349. ISSN 1744-9561