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Welcome to the Insect Neuro Lab at Durham University! We work on insects, their neurons and their environment, in the lab and in the field.

We have 1 fully -funded PhD project to work on bumblbees and their brains – please express your interest by the  31st December – (UK applicants only at this point):

Brain evolution and comparative anatomy across bumblebee species

We also have 2 fully-funded interdisciplinary PhD projects on insects, robots and computer vision, in our and a collaborator’s  labs:

Automated assay to study mosquito development and behaviour in changing climatic conditions  

 

Automatic feeder for monitoring and supporting bumblebees to counteract the effects of climate change and global insect decline

 

We also have 3 MRes (Masters by Research) vacancies