The SRF received a total of 184 applications for the 2008/09 round. Twenty five of the applications were funded.
List of successful applicants for the 2008/09 SRF round
Andrew Foote (United Kingdom) | Worldwide phylogeny of killer whales (Orcinus orca) based upon whole mitochondrial DNA genome sequences. |
Molly Pankey (United States) | Molecular evolution of bioluminescent squid |
Joanna Browne (Australia) | Life-cycles and spatial variation of digenean parasites of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea |
Nestor Ardila (Colombia) | Systematics of the precious corals (Octocorallia: Coralliidae) based on morphology and DNA |
Steven Worthington (United States) | Orangutan Taxonomy: Ecto- versus Endocranial Signals and Covariation. |
Daniel Thomas (United Kingdom) | Phylogeny and historical biogeography of Sulawesi Begonia: Dispersal across Wallace’s Line? |
Rodrigo Gonçalves (Brazil) | Systematics and biogeography of Corynurine bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae s.l., Halictinae) |
Vinita Gowda (United States) | Breeding and Pollination Patterns of Island-Gingers (Zingiberaceae), the Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
Olaoluwa Akinwale (Nigeria) | DNA barcoding of bulinus snail intermediate hosts of Schistosoma haematobium in Nigeria |
Samuel Brockington (United States) | Floral development, Pigmentation and Pollination Biology in early diverging lineages of Caryophyllales |
Jessica Litman (United States) | Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and host-plant associations of the tribe Fideliini (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) |
Hannah Caine (United Kingdom) | A monograph on the Upper Liassic Ichthyosauria from Strawberry Bank, Ilminster, England |
Daniel Henk (United Kingdom) | Basidobolus species ?host specialists, generalist gut symbionts, or ubiquitous fungal saprophytes? |
Richard Brown (United Kingdom) | Speciation times in the lizard genus Phrynocephalus from the Tibetan Plateau |
Mark Statham (United States) | Phylogeography of South Asian Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) |
Kevin Conway (United States) | Torrent Minnow Biogeography |
Diana Jolles (United States) | Phylogeographic diversification within the Pyrola picta species complex (Ericaceae) |
Erik Koenen (Netherlands) | Taxonomy and conservation of the African species in the genus Guarea(Meliaceae) |
James Harrison (United Kingdom) | Investigating the endosymbiotic origins of the orange algal plastid |
Eve Lucas (United Kingdom) | An annotated checklist of Calyptranthes (Myrtaceae); field-work in the Dominican Republic. |
Axel Barlow (United Kingdom) | Systematics of the African puff adder, Bitis arietans (Serpentes: Viperidae: Viperinae) |
Steven Edgington (United Kingdom) | Detailed observations of entomopathogenic nematodes of Tierra del Fuego in Chile |
Jean-Francois Agnese (France) | Developing geometric morphometrics and RGB analyses in Killifish systematics through images acquisition |
Bonnie Blaimer (United States) | Untangling Malagasy ant diversity: Molecular taxonomy of the Decacrema-group (Crematogaster: Formicidae) |
Sébastien Lavoué (United Kingdom) | Presence and cryptic diversity of the paedomorphic freshwater fish Sundasalanx in Thailand |