Catherine Hambly
Curriculum Vitae

8th January 1975.

British

E-mail: catherinehambly@hotmail.com

October 1997 - December 2000
PhD at the University of Aberdeen.
Supervisors: Professor John Speakman (Aberdeen University)
Dr Jean Harper (Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition)
Funding: BBSRC Case Studentship with Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition.

Project Title: Energy cost of flight in birds using a novel approach based on elimination of 13C bicarbonate.

This project involves development of a new technique to measure flight energy demands using a single injection of a 13C label. The isotope is collected in a series of breath samples from which the energy expenditure is calculated by examining the rate of 13C elimination. Validation experiments for this technique and flight costs have been conducted in Zebra Finches, Orange-Tufted Sunbirds and Cockatiels. In addition the energetic cost of wing asymmetry and increased wing loading has been examined in Zebra Finches in relation to their flight morphology which is measured through high-speed video recordings.

Additional Funding: A Lord Goodman Fellowship was received to conduct a 3-month research project in Israel on the cost of flight in Orange Tufted Sunbirds.

October 1997 - present
Undergraduate Demonstrator. Aberdeen University
Courses Include: Animal Behaviour, Vertebrate Biology, Community Ecology, Invertebrate Biology and Ocean Biology.

November 1996 - September 1997
Research Assistant. ACERO, Zoology Department, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland. AB24 3TZ

Research Included:
Development of a new approach to the Doubly Labelled Water Technique. Methods involved taking blood and breath samples from laboratory mice and preparation of the samples for analysis by Mass Spectrometry.
Validation of an ACAN TOBEC machine for use with laboratory mice and short-tailed field voles by comparison with total fat extraction using soxhlet apparatus.
Thermography of the brown adipose region of the short-tailed field vole after a single injection of nor adrenalin.
Analysis of starling flight morphology using pre-recorded videotape.
Metabolism measurements on laboratory mice through respirometry.
Trapping short-tailed field voles and pipistrelle bats in the field.

October 1992 - June 1996. University of Glasgow.
Upper Second Class BSc Honours Degree in Zoology

Modules Completed: Animal Behaviour, Behavioural Ecology, Behavioural Neurobiology, Applications and Ecological Principles, Biodiversity, Arthropods and Vectors, Vertebrate biology, Animal Physiology, Reproductive Biology.
Honours project: Habitat preference in relation to insect abundance in the common pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus pipistrellus.
Bats were observed foraging around a maternal roost in Central Scotland. Bat detectors, sticky insect traps and insect suction traps were used. Further analysis involved the analysis of bat faecal pellets to identify the species of insects in the bats diet.

Trinidad 1994 and 1996: Participation on two expeditions through Glasgow University Exploration Society. I was expedition and project leader in 1996. The main project was to compare the species of bats present in two types of vegetation in the Trinity Hills Wildlife reserve.

Israel 1999: Participation in a project examining the activity levels of gerbils with increasing levels of predator threat from Barn Owls.

Presentations at the Scottish Conference for Animal Behaviour 1996
and the Scottish Tropical Biology Conference 1997.
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Imager, Minitab, Paintshop-Pro, SPSS, BMDP and Internet skills.

Clean Driving License.

Playing music and singing in a performance band. Horse riding, carriage driving and countryside walks.

Publications

Jackson DM, Hambly C, Trayhurn P and Speakman JR (In Press) Can non-shivering thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue following NA injection be qualified by changes in overlying surface temperatures using infrared thermography? J Thermal Biology.

Hambly C, Harper EJ and Speakman (Submitted) Cost of flight in the zebra finch (Taenopygia guttata): a novel approach based on elimination of 13C labelled bicarbonate. J Comp Physiol.

Hambly C, Pinshow B, Harper EJ and Speakman JR (In Prep) Flight cost in the orange-tufted sunbird (Nectarinia osea) using the 13C labelled bicarbonate technique.

Referees

Professor JR Speakman
ACERO, Department of Zoology, Tillydrone Avenue, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland. AB24 3TZ.
Tel: 01224 272879
Fax: 01224 272396
E-mail: j.speakman@abdn.ac.uk

Professor Berry Pinshow
Mitrani Centre for Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boqer Campus, 84990 Israel.
Tel: (927) 7 - 659 6773
Fax: (972) 7 - 659 6772
E-mail: pinshow@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

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