Jian Yen has recently started his PhD as the 2012 Sir James McNeill Postgraduate Research Scholarship holder - a highly prestigious scholarship only one of which is available across the university.

Jian will work with Ralph Mac Nally and Jim Thomson (ACB) and Associate Professor David Paganin in the School of Physics. Jian will be a tremendous asset to the ACB and the School of Biological Sciences.

The ACBs Sasha Pavlova, Nev Amos and Paul Sunnucks (et al.) have recently had a paper published in Ecology:

Genes and song: genetic and social connections in fragmented habitat in a woodland bird with limited dispersal.

See Ecology: http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-1891.1