Josephine Pemberton
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Almamater
- University of Oxford (BA)
- University of Reading (PhD)
Awards
- Molecular Ecology Prize (2011)[1]
- EMBO Member (2014)[2]
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2017)[3]
- Darwin-Wallace Medal (2018)
Institutions
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.jpg) Pemberton in 2017 | |
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| Thesis | An investigation into the population genetics of British fallow deer (Dama dama L.) (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert H. Smith[1][4] |
| Other academic advisors | Sam Berry |
| Website | pemberton |
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]
