Josephine Pemberton

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Josephine Pemberton
FRS
Josephine Pemberton, 2017 (cropped).jpg
Pemberton in 2017
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis An investigation into the population genetics of British fallow deer (Dama dama L.)  (1983)
Doctoral advisor Robert H. Smith [1] [4]
Other academic advisors Sam Berry
Website pemberton.bio.ed.ac.uk

Josephine M. Pemberton FRS [3] is a British evolutionary biologist. She is Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, [5] where she conducts research in parentage analysis, pedigree reconstruction, inbreeding depression, parasite resistance, and quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection in natural populations. [6] She has worked primarily on long-term studies of soay sheep [7] [8] on St Kilda, and red deer on the island of Rùm. [9] [10] [11] [12]

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Education

Pemberton was educated at the University of Oxford (where she read Zoology [1] ) and the University of Reading where she was awarded a PhD in 1983 for research on the population genetics of fallow deer [13] supervised by Robert H. Smith. [4]

Research and career

After her PhD, she was a postdoctoral researcher at University College London and the University of Cambridge. [6] This was followed by appointments as a BBSRC Advanced Fellow in Cambridge and Edinburgh, before being appointed a Lecturer in 1994 at the University of Edinburgh, [6] where she has worked ever since. Her research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). [6]

Awards and honours

Pemberton was awarded the Molecular Ecology Prize in 2011 [1] and EMBO Membership in 2014. [2] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017. [3]

She was awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2018. [14] and was named Chair of Natural History in 2020.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Coltman, Dave (2011). "Recipient of the 2010 Molecular Ecology Prize: Josephine Pemberton". Molecular Ecology . 20 (1): 22–24. Bibcode:2011MolEc..20...22C. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04956.x. ISSN   0962-1083. S2CID   82106973.
  2. 1 2 Anon (2017). "Pemberton profile". people.embo.org. Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization.
  3. 1 2 3 Anon (2017). "Professor Josephine Pemberton FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017.
  4. 1 2 Pemberton, J M; Smith, R H (1985). "Lack of biochemical polymorphism in British fallow deer". Heredity . 55 (2): 199–207. doi: 10.1038/hdy.1985.92 . ISSN   0018-067X. PMID   4055416.
  5. ↑ Josephine Pemberton ORCID   0000-0002-0075-1504
  6. 1 2 3 4 Pemberton, Josephine (2017). "Professor Josephine Pemberton, University of Edinburgh". University of Edinburgh.
  7. ↑ Clutton-Brock, T. H.; Pemberton, J. M. (2003). Soay sheep: population dynamics and selection on St. Kilda. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511550669. ISBN   9780521823005. OCLC   967604772.
  8. ↑ Coltman, David W.; Pilkington, Jill G.; Smith, Judith A.; Pemberton, Josephine M. (1999). "Parasite-Mediated Selection against Inbred Soay Sheep in a Free-Living, Island Population". Evolution . 53 (4): 1259–1267. doi:10.2307/2640828. ISSN   0014-3820. JSTOR   2640828. PMID   28565537.
  9. ↑ Josephine Pemberton's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. ↑ Marshall, T. C.; Slate, J.; Kruuk, L. E. B.; Pemberton, J. M. (1998). "Statistical confidence for likelihood-based paternity inference in natural populations". Molecular Ecology . 7 (5): 639–655. Bibcode:1998MolEc...7..639M. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00374.x. ISSN   0962-1083. PMID   9633105. S2CID   25049471.
  11. ↑ Kruuk, Loeske E. B.; Slate, Jon; Pemberton, Josephine M.; Brotherstone, Sue; Guinness, Fiona; Clutton-Brock, Tim; Houle, D. (1 August 2002). "Antler size in red deer: heritability and selection but no evolution". Evolution. 56 (8): 1683–1695. doi:10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[1683:ASIRDH]2.0.CO;2. ISSN   0014-3820. PMID   12353761.
  12. ↑ Kruuk, Loeske E. B.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Albon, Steve D.; Pemberton, Josephine M.; Guinness, Fiona E. (1999). "Population density affects sex ratio variation in red deer". Nature . 399 (6735): 459–461. Bibcode:1999Natur.399..459K. doi:10.1038/20917. PMID   10365956. S2CID   4361392.
  13. ↑ Pemberton, Josephine M. (1983). An investigation into the population genetics of British fallow deer (Dama dama L.). ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of Reading. OCLC   499836175. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.351090.
  14. ↑ The Darwin-Wallace Medal, The Linnean Society of London.
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