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Josephine Pemberton

Josephine Pemberton

British evolutionary biologist

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]
    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.
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    Anon (2017). "Pemberton profile". people.embo.org. Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization.
  3. [3]
    Anon (2017). "Professor Josephine Pemberton FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017.
  4. [4]
    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. [5]
    Josephine Pemberton ORCID 0000-0002-0075-1504
  6. [6]
    Pemberton, Josephine (2017). "Professor Josephine Pemberton, University of Edinburgh". University of Edinburgh.
  7. [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. [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.
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    Josephine Pemberton's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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    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.
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    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.
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    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. [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. [14]
    The Darwin-Wallace Medal, The Linnean Society of London.
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