Ian Dublon

Tjänstledig 20240304-20240904

I work as a service technician at the technical service part of SLU's infrastructure department.

Prior to this I carried out postdoctoral research on butterfly pheromones (Bicyclus anynana) for a short fixed term at Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium.

From 2011 – 2013, I was a postdoctor at SLU Alnarp Chemical Ecology unit where I worked on mapping responses to insect odour within the insect brain.

In addition to semiochemical biology I am interested in other sensory systems in invertebrates. In my first postdoctoral position at the University of Sussex and Natural Resources Institute (NRI) I looked at flight behaviours and auditory interactions in free flying Culex mosquito swarms.

I started my research in 2004 at the University of Keele where I took my PhD and worked with the aggregation pheromone of the western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis). Thysanoptera are brilliant insects and I had the luck to continue working with them in combination with Keele, NRI and Lund University. The western flower thrips is one of the smallest insects known to produce three different types of pheromone: alarm, aggregation and contact. I worked extensively on the last two of these. 

2012 and 2013 Invited teaching on the Alnarp ICE International Chemical Ecology Masters course. Specialised lecture on Thysanopteran chemical ecology.

Insect chemical ecology, semiochemicals, olfaction, insect neuroscience, auditory interactions in swarms, pheromones.

Past research collaborations with Lund University (Pheromone group), Uppsala University (Collective Behaviour group), University of Greenwich (Natural Resources Institute), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Zoological Institute and Museum, Department of Animal Ecology) and University of Keele (Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology).

Education

Bachelors BSc in Applied Environmental Science and Law, University of Keele. 2003

PhD in Chemical Ecology, University of Keele. 2009

Postdoctor, Neuroscience, University of Sussex. 2009-2011

Postdoctor, Chemical Ecology, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet. 2011-2013

Postdoctor, Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics, Université catholique de Louvain. 2014

MSc Co-supervisor for M.A. Hayder, Effect of Co-expression of Spodoptera Olfactory Receptors on Drosophila Odour Perception. 2014
 

2018

•• Common practice solvent extraction does not reflect actual emission of a sex pheromone during butterfly courtship. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00154

•  A reply to Nieberding and Holveck: beyond experimental design and proximate mechanisms - mate choice in the face of sexual conflict. Frontiers in Zoology DOI: 10.1186/s12983-017-0242-9

2016

•  Scintillate: An open-source graphical viewer for time-series calcium imaging evaluation and pre-processing. Journal of Neuroscience Methods DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2016.08.010

2015

•  Young male mating success is associated with sperm number but not with male sex pheromone titres. Frontiers in Zoology DOI: 10.1186/s12983-015-0124-y

2014

•• Chemical composition of anal droplets of the eusocial gall-inducing thrips Kladothrips intermedius. Chemoecology DOI: 10.1007/s00049-014-0147-4 

•  Flying insect swarms. Current Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.009

2013

•• A male-predominant cuticular hydrocarbon, 7-methyltricosane, is used as a contact pheromone in the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis. Journal of Chemical Ecology DOI: 10.1007/s10886-013-0272-5

•  Superplot3d: an open source GUI tool for 3d trajectory visualisation and elementary processing. Source Code for Biology and Medicine DOI: 10.1186/1751-0473-8-19

2009

•  The aggregation pheromone of the western flower thrips. PhD thesis monograph (University of Keele). Available from the British library: uk.bl.ethos.499345

2008

•  Quantification of the release rate of the aggregation pheromone of the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), using solid-phase microextraction (SPME). Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica DOI: 10.1556/APhyt.43.2008.2.6

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