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Details for Dr Shelby Temple
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Shelby Temple |
| Job title | Research Assistant |
| Department | School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/person/?personKey=Zm49USoZ0OWiVacIk37kshuTttvKyl |
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| Qualifications | BSc(UVic), MSc(Newfndlnd), PhD(UVic) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | International Society for Neuroethology Society for Neuroscience Australian Society for Fish Biology J. B. Johnston Club |
| Keywords | colour vision retina visual pigments fish cephalopod polarization vision aquaculture eye |
| Areas of expertise | My primary focus is in the area of animal vision, looking at how and why animals see the world the way they do. I study the retina, visual pigments, colour vision, and polarization vision, using retinal wholemounts, microspectrophotometry, and behaviour. My main models are fishes and cephalopods, and have included: salmon, anchovie, zebrafish, archerfish, stickleback, goldfish, cuttlefish, squid, and octopus. Another area of my research has looked at understanding vision and behaviour with respect to improving aquaculture production. For this I have studied, salmon, cod, halibut, flounder, barramundi, and fat snook. |
| Media experience | Short TV episode produced on my research on archerfish vision in which I was demonstrating the science. Short TV episode the featured my archerfish research. Online radio interview. I wrote a piece for a generalist magazine (Australasian Science). Sat on a panel of experts during an open discussion on challenges facing aquaculture industry. |