August 10, 2022
Charlie's paper in PlosONe on the reconstruction of the call of Prophalangopsis obscura, will be highlighted in the NY Times. This paper is in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, London. Full story.
July 21st, 2022
The lab has been awarded a grant by the Company of Biologist for the organisation of the ISV meeting in 2023. The event will also be spotted by Wildlife Acoustics, and Avisoft.
April 18-May1st, 2022
Fernando and Charlie completed a successful field trip in the rainforests of Colombia. The first trip after the pandemic.
October 27th, 2021
Charlie Woodrow was awarded a prize for the best poster at the Postgraduate Conference, School of Life Science, University of Lincoln.
August 8th, 2021
Dr. Oscar Guadayol, an expert in fluid dynamics, has joined the lab as part of the NSF-NERC project studying the biophysics of acoustic organs. Oscar will be using various approaches to study the mechanics of the inner ear fluid in katydids, for further implementation of numerical models.
April 30th, 2021
Charlie Woodrow was awarded the Theodore J. Cohn research fund by the Orthopterists’ society, which has provided funds for a large scale comparative study of acoustic trachea design using 3D geometries and micro-CT scanning.
March 4th, 2021
Dan and Emine's paper on multiple sound inputs in the katydid ear was released today in PNAS.
Oct 12-17, 2020
Eleftherios, Darron, Charlie and Fernando visited the Diamond Light Source National facility in Oxfordshire. We had a 5-day section to conduct dynamic and static experiments on the bush cricket ears.
Dec 18, 2019
The lab was successful in an application to use UK's national synchrotron science facility, Diamond Source in Oxford, for experiments on the katydid ear.
Oct 17, 2019
NSF-NERC grant, in collaboration with Hojun Song (Texas) and Nathan Bailey (St. Andrews) was successful. We were awarded a total of about $1.3m for the project "Integrating phylogenomics, biophysics, and functional genomics to unravel the evolution of hearing and singing in Ensifera (katydids, crickets and relatives).
May 12-18, 2019
Christian Pulver and Charlie Woodrow are in Odense, Denmark, taking an internationally-prestigious Bioacoustics course at University of Southern Denmark.
April 22-26, 2019
Christian Pulver and Fernando travelled to Giessen Germany in a collaborative trip with the lab of Reinhard Lakes-Harland and Johannes Strauss.
March 23-28, 2019
The lab participated in the ICO conference in Morocco, contributing with two talks and one poster.
February 10-27, 2019
Christian Pulver, Daniel Veitch, and Fernando conducting field work in Colombia and Ecuador.
November 28, 2018
Our research highlighted in Knowable Magazine. Full story here.
March 13, 2018
Press release of our ERC grant officially posted. Full story here.
February 7-12, 2018
Fernando travelled to Palmira Colombia, to deliver a speech for the 150th anniversary of Colegio de Cadenas, his former high-school.
December 8, 2017
Fabio Sarria-S and Fernando attended the symposium on Sensory Transduction in London, sponsored by the Physiological Society and UCL. Fabio presented a poster.
December 5, 2017
Fabio Sarria-S successfully defended his PhD thesis. Well done Fabio!!!
December 1, 2017
Fernando was promoted to full Professor at the University of Lincoln.
November 20, 2017
Fernando was awarded an ERC consolidator grant. A prestigious award to develop a five-year multidisciplinary project intended to mimic the bush-cricket hearing system as non-invasive path towards enhanced sound detectors.
November 28, 2017
Fernando and Fabio Sarria-S, attending the 50th Anniversary of Polytec, at the National Space centre, Leicester, UK.
November 1, 2017
Andy Baker and Fernando travel to the Natural History Museum in London for the Orthopterists’ Meeting 2017 (Royal Entomological Society, Special Interest Group). Andy will present a poster about his work on Typophyllum spurioculis, and Fernando is to deliver a talk on call reconstruction in fossil Ensifera.
September 14-17, 2017
Fernando delivered a plenary talk a the 16th Invertebrate Sound & Vibration. Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Germany, September 14-17.
October 30-November 4, 2016
Our lab participated in the 12th International Conference of Orthopterology, Ilheus, Brazil. The lab actively contributed three talks, and a poster. We also delivered a workshop on sound recording and signal processing and created space for discussion.
September 30, 2016
The Montealegre's lab participating in the LIGHTS Nights 2016, Tech and Science.
Press coverage of our last paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface released today. Full story here.
August 10-30, 2016
Fernando, Thorin Jonsson, and Daniel Robert travel to China for collaborative research at Capital Normal University in Beijing, visiting Prof. Dong Ren, and Dr. Jun Jie Gu. Fieldwork is also planned at Sichuan Liziping Natural Reserve.
July 7, 2016
Ben Chivers was awarded the Irene Manton prize for best poster in the animal section of the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology, in Brighton UK.
July 10-11, 2016
Fernando traveling to Colombia to deliver a talk in the 50th anniversary of the Biology Department, Universidad del Valle.
June 28-July 10, 2016
Fernando traveling to Ecuador with other academic staff colleagues to deliver a field course in tropical biology.
June 3, 2016
Fabio Sarria-S awarded a prize for best oral presentation in the annual postgraduate conference at the University of Lincoln.
April 26 - May 1, 2016
Thorin and Fernando at the 7th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Edinburgh. The lab contributed with a talk on Finite Element Analysis and fossil acoustics.
April 8, 2016
Dr. Sandra Goutte, a Postdoctoral Researcher Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros Instituto de Biologia (IB) Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo Brazil, is visiting the lab.
January 20, 2016
Ben Chivers and Tanja Kleinhappel graduated from their MSc and PhD degrees. Ceremony at Lincoln Cathedral.
Charlie's paper in PlosONe on the reconstruction of the call of Prophalangopsis obscura, will be highlighted in the NY Times. This paper is in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, London. Full story.
July 21st, 2022
The lab has been awarded a grant by the Company of Biologist for the organisation of the ISV meeting in 2023. The event will also be spotted by Wildlife Acoustics, and Avisoft.
April 18-May1st, 2022
Fernando and Charlie completed a successful field trip in the rainforests of Colombia. The first trip after the pandemic.
October 27th, 2021
Charlie Woodrow was awarded a prize for the best poster at the Postgraduate Conference, School of Life Science, University of Lincoln.
August 8th, 2021
Dr. Oscar Guadayol, an expert in fluid dynamics, has joined the lab as part of the NSF-NERC project studying the biophysics of acoustic organs. Oscar will be using various approaches to study the mechanics of the inner ear fluid in katydids, for further implementation of numerical models.
April 30th, 2021
Charlie Woodrow was awarded the Theodore J. Cohn research fund by the Orthopterists’ society, which has provided funds for a large scale comparative study of acoustic trachea design using 3D geometries and micro-CT scanning.
March 4th, 2021
Dan and Emine's paper on multiple sound inputs in the katydid ear was released today in PNAS.
Oct 12-17, 2020
Eleftherios, Darron, Charlie and Fernando visited the Diamond Light Source National facility in Oxfordshire. We had a 5-day section to conduct dynamic and static experiments on the bush cricket ears.
Dec 18, 2019
The lab was successful in an application to use UK's national synchrotron science facility, Diamond Source in Oxford, for experiments on the katydid ear.
Oct 17, 2019
NSF-NERC grant, in collaboration with Hojun Song (Texas) and Nathan Bailey (St. Andrews) was successful. We were awarded a total of about $1.3m for the project "Integrating phylogenomics, biophysics, and functional genomics to unravel the evolution of hearing and singing in Ensifera (katydids, crickets and relatives).
May 12-18, 2019
Christian Pulver and Charlie Woodrow are in Odense, Denmark, taking an internationally-prestigious Bioacoustics course at University of Southern Denmark.
April 22-26, 2019
Christian Pulver and Fernando travelled to Giessen Germany in a collaborative trip with the lab of Reinhard Lakes-Harland and Johannes Strauss.
March 23-28, 2019
The lab participated in the ICO conference in Morocco, contributing with two talks and one poster.
February 10-27, 2019
Christian Pulver, Daniel Veitch, and Fernando conducting field work in Colombia and Ecuador.
November 28, 2018
Our research highlighted in Knowable Magazine. Full story here.
March 13, 2018
Press release of our ERC grant officially posted. Full story here.
February 7-12, 2018
Fernando travelled to Palmira Colombia, to deliver a speech for the 150th anniversary of Colegio de Cadenas, his former high-school.
December 8, 2017
Fabio Sarria-S and Fernando attended the symposium on Sensory Transduction in London, sponsored by the Physiological Society and UCL. Fabio presented a poster.
December 5, 2017
Fabio Sarria-S successfully defended his PhD thesis. Well done Fabio!!!
December 1, 2017
Fernando was promoted to full Professor at the University of Lincoln.
November 20, 2017
Fernando was awarded an ERC consolidator grant. A prestigious award to develop a five-year multidisciplinary project intended to mimic the bush-cricket hearing system as non-invasive path towards enhanced sound detectors.
November 28, 2017
Fernando and Fabio Sarria-S, attending the 50th Anniversary of Polytec, at the National Space centre, Leicester, UK.
November 1, 2017
Andy Baker and Fernando travel to the Natural History Museum in London for the Orthopterists’ Meeting 2017 (Royal Entomological Society, Special Interest Group). Andy will present a poster about his work on Typophyllum spurioculis, and Fernando is to deliver a talk on call reconstruction in fossil Ensifera.
September 14-17, 2017
Fernando delivered a plenary talk a the 16th Invertebrate Sound & Vibration. Schloss Rauischholzhausen, Germany, September 14-17.
October 30-November 4, 2016
Our lab participated in the 12th International Conference of Orthopterology, Ilheus, Brazil. The lab actively contributed three talks, and a poster. We also delivered a workshop on sound recording and signal processing and created space for discussion.
September 30, 2016
The Montealegre's lab participating in the LIGHTS Nights 2016, Tech and Science.
Press coverage of our last paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface released today. Full story here.
August 10-30, 2016
Fernando, Thorin Jonsson, and Daniel Robert travel to China for collaborative research at Capital Normal University in Beijing, visiting Prof. Dong Ren, and Dr. Jun Jie Gu. Fieldwork is also planned at Sichuan Liziping Natural Reserve.
July 7, 2016
Ben Chivers was awarded the Irene Manton prize for best poster in the animal section of the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology, in Brighton UK.
July 10-11, 2016
Fernando traveling to Colombia to deliver a talk in the 50th anniversary of the Biology Department, Universidad del Valle.
June 28-July 10, 2016
Fernando traveling to Ecuador with other academic staff colleagues to deliver a field course in tropical biology.
June 3, 2016
Fabio Sarria-S awarded a prize for best oral presentation in the annual postgraduate conference at the University of Lincoln.
April 26 - May 1, 2016
Thorin and Fernando at the 7th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Edinburgh. The lab contributed with a talk on Finite Element Analysis and fossil acoustics.
April 8, 2016
Dr. Sandra Goutte, a Postdoctoral Researcher Laboratório de História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros Instituto de Biologia (IB) Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo Brazil, is visiting the lab.
January 20, 2016
Ben Chivers and Tanja Kleinhappel graduated from their MSc and PhD degrees. Ceremony at Lincoln Cathedral.
September 6-13, 2015
The Montealegre's lab travels to Germany to participate in the XXV meeting of the International Bioacoustics Council (IBAC), Murnau, Bavaria. Fabio Sarria-S: talk; Ben Chivers: Poster; Dr. Thorin Jonsson: Poster; Dr. Fernando Montealegre-Z: Poster.
August 8-16, 2015
Fernando traveling to Brazil to participate in the Simpósio Internacional de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, as plenary and panel discussion speaker.
June 17, 2015
Fernando was promoted to Reader.
March 4, 2015
Thorin and Fernando traveling to MNHN in Paris for collaborative work.
February 25, 2015
Thorin and Fernando delivered an afternoon-section (lecture and hands-on-activity) to year-6 students at
Britannia Village Primary School, Newham, London.
October 6, 2014.
Dr. Thorin Jonsson has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
September 1, 2014.
Fernando travels to Ecuador as part of the academic staff in charge of the field course our department offers to 2nd-year undergraduates.
August 26, 2014
The lab supported filming for the BBC tv show Super senses, the secret power of animals: Sound, broadcasted on Aug, 26.
August 21, 2014
Leverhulme grant highlighted in Times Higher Education.
July 3, 2014
The lab awarded a Research Grant from Leverhulme Trust!!!
June30, 2014
The lab crew is in London attending the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. Click here to watch our promotional video.
June 9, 2014
Fernando will be given a radio interview with Siren FM, Lincoln, at 5PM.
June 5, 2014
Fabio Sarria's paper on extreme ultrasonic katydids genus Supersonus, released today in PloS ONE.
June 2, 2014
Fernando and students visiting the lab of James Windmill to conduct Ben Chivers' experiments.
Montealegre-Z's lab at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2014!!!!
Follow us on Twitter @insect_ears
January 27, 2014
Fernando and Daniel Robert (Bristol) attending the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition planning day, in London.
January 17, 2014
Ben Chivers awarded with a Journal of Experimental Biology traveling fellowship to visit the lab of James Windmill in Glasgow, as part of his MSc research project.
December 20, 2013
Fabio Sarria-S was awarded a Santander traveling fellowship to conduct fieldwork in Colombia.
December 12, 2013
Fabio Sarria-S and Ben Chivers visiting the lab of Berthold Hedwig in Cambridge.
December 5, 2013
Montealegre-Z's lab to participate in the 2014 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London.
October1, 2013.
Ben Chivers Bioacoustics paper highlighted in BBC Focus (Science and Technology), UK.
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September 24, 2013
The lab welcomes new students.
Graduate students:
Fabio Sarria-Sarria and Ben Chivers.
Undergraduate students:
Rob Yeo, Joshua R Moss, Bekie Black, Tilly Nind, Betrand H. Lemond, Emma Darby.
August 28, 2013
Ben Chivers interviewed in the School of Life Science youtube Channel. See interview here.
August 7, 2013
Ben Chivers Bioacoustics paper highlighted in National Geographic, Daily News.
August 4, 2013
Fernando traveling to China to join Prof. Dong Ren's Lab in Beijing for collaborative research, and subsequently heading to Kumning to give a talk in the 11th International Congress of Orthopterology.
July 23, 2013
Press release of Ben Chivers's article published in Bioacoustics attracted different media agencies:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/john-ingham/417498/Poor-female-bush-crickets
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130723134324.htm
http://naturalmedia.org/cricket-find-revals-chirp-as-loud-as-a-power-saw/
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112904640/chirp-rare-bushcricket-loud-as-power-saw-072313/
http://beforeitsnews.com/science-and-technology/2013/07/chirp-of-rare-bushcricket-is-as-loud-as-a-power-saw-2620748.html
http://dailyme.com/story/2013072300003917
http://www.onenewspage.us/n/Science/74vxqjxdl/Chirp-Of-Rare-Bushcricket-Is-As-Loud-As.htm
http://sciencenewsnews.com/rare-bushcrickets-chirp-as-loud-as-a-power-saw/
http://esciencenews.com/sources/science.daily/2013/07/23/rare.bushcrickets.chirp.loud.a.power.saw
http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/216015989/scat/a9927dde6777aafc
http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s216015989&cid=49
http://computermagazine.com/2013/07/23/rare-bushcrickets-chirp-as-loud-as-a-power-saw/
July 2-20, 2013
Fernando traveling to Colombia invited by the Colombian Association of Entomology (SOCOLEN) to give a plenary talk in their meeting Celebrating the 40th Anniversary. Fernando will also meet with members of the Institute Alexander von Humboldt and with members of the Colombian Ministry of Environment to plan future research.
June 26th, 2013
Ben Chivers being interviewed by the University of Lincoln Press Release officer about his paper accepted in the journal Bioacoustics. The interview will be released on July 15, 2013 with the publication of the article.
May 16, 2013
Crickets’ calling song hits the high notes
In collaboration with Dr. Tony Robillard (and other colleagues at MNHN, Paris), and Prof. Daniel Robert (Bristol), we have shown how acoustic communication has evolved within a unique group of cricket which exploits unusually high frequency harmonics to communicate acoustically.
See press release note here.
Other coverage
Laser vibrometry shows how singing crickets hit high notes
Песнопения сверчков на высоких частотах: эволюция звука
Download research article from JEB here.
April 22, 2013
Fernando gave a 2.5-hours Webminar for 3rd-year undergraduate biology student at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. The primary aim of the seminar was to provide students with a general overview of the of the experience of studying abroad, as well as to provide career advice.
Fernando gave a 2.5-hours Webminar for 3rd-year undergraduate biology student at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. The primary aim of the seminar was to provide students with a general overview of the of the experience of studying abroad, as well as to provide career advice.
March 27, 2013
As a National Geographic Grantee, Dr. Montealegre-Z's work is to be featured in a biology book for college students edited by National Geographic Learning.
As a National Geographic Grantee, Dr. Montealegre-Z's work is to be featured in a biology book for college students edited by National Geographic Learning.
February 24-26, 2013
Fernando visited Dr. Luc Bussiere's at the University of Stirling in Scotland. A Department seminar was giving on the 25th at 4PM.
Fernando visited Dr. Luc Bussiere's at the University of Stirling in Scotland. A Department seminar was giving on the 25th at 4PM.
February 15, 2013
A Research Grant from the Royal Society has been awarded to support equipment and lab infrastructure.
November 16, 2012
Media attention was recently paid to a paper published in Science on November 16th 2012, which relates to convergent evolution in hearing between insects and mammals. This work, developed in the labs of Profs. Daniel Robert and Kate Robson-Brown from the University of Bristol, was highlighted in different magazines, newspapers, radio and TV. Some relevant links to the media coverage are listed below.
BBC Earth
BBC Radio
Discovery Channel Canada, Daily Planet
Scientific American, USA November 19
Science Magazine, USA November 15
New Scientist, UK November 16
Discover Magazine, USA, November 16
Daily Mail, UK November 16
Science Daily, USA November 16
Science Newsline, USA November 15
Le Monde, France, November 15
Life Science, USA November 16
SINC, Spain November 15
El Tiempo, newspaper, Colombia
El Espectador, newspaper, Colombia
Media attention was recently paid to a paper published in Science on November 16th 2012, which relates to convergent evolution in hearing between insects and mammals. This work, developed in the labs of Profs. Daniel Robert and Kate Robson-Brown from the University of Bristol, was highlighted in different magazines, newspapers, radio and TV. Some relevant links to the media coverage are listed below.
BBC Earth
BBC Radio
Discovery Channel Canada, Daily Planet
Scientific American, USA November 19
Science Magazine, USA November 15
New Scientist, UK November 16
Discover Magazine, USA, November 16
Daily Mail, UK November 16
Science Daily, USA November 16
Science Newsline, USA November 15
Le Monde, France, November 15
Life Science, USA November 16
SINC, Spain November 15
El Tiempo, newspaper, Colombia
El Espectador, newspaper, Colombia
