Melissa added themselves to the department Department of Biology and changed a position, an About section.
Melissa started following the work of Thaddeus Miller, Portland State University, School of Urban Studies and Planning.
Melissa started following the work of Bethany Cutts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Natural Resources And Environmental Sciences.
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Post-Doc, Department of Biology
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
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Nico Michiels
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About
My current research interests involve how animals use coloration in various communicative (or non-communicative) contexts, especially in sexual selection, but also for camouflage, aposematic signaling, or even vision enhancement. I am also generally interested in animal personality, agonistic interactions, and mate choice. My dissertation research with Dr. Kevin McGraw at Arizona State University focused on iridescent coloration in Anna's hummingbirds within a sexual selection, quality-signaling context, and my postdoctoral work will examine the function of red fluorescent coloration in marine fish with Dr. Nico Michiels at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
I've conducted side projects on glossiness in grackles (see our recent paper published in BES); the quantification of iridescent coloration; the condition-dependence of melanin, carotenoid, and structural coloration in silvereyes (a passerine bird) in New Zealand; silver coloration in Adelie penguins; and nutrition in Anna's hummingbirds. Prior to graduate school, I also conducted research in coral reef ecology and conservation in the Florida Keys, avian ecology in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and seabird secondary sex ratios as a function of environmental health.
