Benjamin Michael Marshall
I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Stirling, funded by IAPETUS2 Doctoral Training Programme. My PhD project is aiming to use agent-based models to simulate animal movement, and with those simulations explore how researcher choice can influence the findings from animal tracking datasets.
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Previously I was working at the Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand as a researcher. While there I undertook projects exploring snake movement, reptile images online, and the trade of herpetofauna.
Research Highlight
My masters work aimed to unearth whether the newly introduced toxic toad, Duttaphrynus melanostictus, was liable to poison the native fauna of Madagascar. The toxics of this toad bind to one specific area, and by sequencing that area we are able to discern a species' vulnerability to the toxics. The findings are have been published in Current Biology.
