Josephine Pemberton

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

Josephine Pemberton

FRS
Josephine Pemberton in 2017.
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisAn investigation into the population genetics of British fallow deer (Dama dama L.) (1983)
Doctoral advisorRobert H. Smith[1][4]
Other academic advisorsSam Berry
InfluencesTim Clutton-Brock[1][5]
Websitepemberton.bio.ed.ac.uk

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.[7] 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,[7] 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).[7]

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. Coltman, Dave (2011). "Recipient of the 2010 Molecular Ecology Prize: Josephine Pemberton". Molecular Ecology. 20 (1): 22–24. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04956.x. ISSN 0962-1083. S2CID 82106973.
  2. Anon (2017). "Pemberton profile". people.embo.org. Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization.
  3. Anon (2017). "Professor Josephine Pemberton FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017.
  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. 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.
  6. Josephine Pemberton ORCID 0000-0002-0075-1504
  7. Pemberton, Josephine (2017). "Professor Josephine Pemberton, University of Edinburgh". University of Edinburgh.
  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. 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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