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Josephine Pemberton
Doctoral Advisor:Robert H. Smith[1]
Academic Advisors:Sam Berry
Thesis Title:An investigation into the population genetics of British fallow deer (Dama dama L.)
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.351090
Thesis Year:1983

Josephine M. Pemberton [2] is a British evolutionary biologist. She is Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh,[3] where she conducts research in parentage analysis, pedigree reconstruction, inbreeding depression, parasite resistance, and quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection in natural populations. She has worked primarily on long-term studies of soay sheep[4] [5] on St Kilda, and red deer on the island of Rùm.[6] [7] [8]

Education

Pemberton was educated at the University of Oxford (where she read Zoology) and the University of Reading where she was awarded a PhD in 1983 for research on the population genetics of fallow deer[9] supervised by Robert H. Smith.[1]

Research and career

After her PhD, she was a postdoctoral researcher at University College London and the University of Cambridge. 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, 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).[10]

Awards and honours

Pemberton was awarded the Molecular Ecology Prize in 2011[11] and EMBO Membership in 2014. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.

She was awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2018.[12] and was named Chair of Natural History in 2020.

Notes and References

  1. Pemberton. J M. Smith. R H. Lack of biochemical polymorphism in British fallow deer. Heredity. 55. 2. 1985. 199–207. 0018-067X. 10.1038/hdy.1985.92. 4055416. free.
  2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20170511094043/https://royalsociety.org/people/josephine-pemberton-13413/. 2017-05-11. Professor Josephine Pemberton FRS. royalsociety.org. Anon. 2017. London.
  3. Josephine Pemberton
  4. Book: 2003. 10.1017/cbo9780511550669. Cambridge University Press. Soay sheep: population dynamics and selection on St. Kilda. Clutton-Brock. T. H.. Pemberton. J. M.. 9780521823005. 967604772.
  5. Coltman. David W.. Pilkington. Jill G.. Smith. Judith A.. Pemberton. Josephine M.. Parasite-Mediated Selection against Inbred Soay Sheep in a Free-Living, Island Population. Evolution. 53. 4. 1999. 1259–1267. 0014-3820. 10.2307/2640828. 2640828. 28565537.
  6. Marshall. T. C.. Slate. J.. Kruuk. L. E. B.. Pemberton. J. M.. Statistical confidence for likelihood-based paternity inference in natural populations. Molecular Ecology. 7. 5. 1998. 639–655. 0962-1083. 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00374.x. 9633105. 1998MolEc...7..639M . 25049471.
  7. Kruuk. Loeske E. B.. Loeske Kruuk. 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. 10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[1683:ASIRDH]2.0.CO;2. 0014-3820. 12353761.
  8. Kruuk. Loeske E. B.. Clutton-Brock. Tim H.. Albon. Steve D.. Pemberton. Josephine M.. Guinness. Fiona E.. Population density affects sex ratio variation in red deer. Nature. 1999. 399. 6735. 459–461. 10.1038/20917. 10365956. 1999Natur.399..459K. 4361392.
  9. PhD. ethos.bl.uk. University of Reading. An investigation into the population genetics of British fallow deer (Dama dama L.). Josephine M.. Pemberton. 1983. . 499836175.
  10. Web site: Professor Josephine Pemberton, University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh. Josephine. Pemberton. 2017.
  11. Coltman. Dave. Recipient of the 2010 Molecular Ecology Prize: Josephine Pemberton. Molecular Ecology. 20. 1. 2011. 22–24. 0962-1083. 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04956.x. 2011MolEc..20...22C . 82106973.
  12. https://www.linnean.org/the-society/medals-awards-prizes-grants/the-darwin-wallace-medal The Darwin-Wallace Medal

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