Dr Kate Buchanan

		Phone		+61 3 522 71321
		Email		kate.buchanan@deakin.edu.au
		Position		Senior Lecturer
		Campus		Geelong
		Research grouping		Wildlife and Landscape Ecology Ecophysiology, Sensory Ecology and Behaviour

I gained my B.Sc. Zoology from the University of Glasgow in 1989 and my Ph.D. from Royal
Holloway University of London in 1997 working with Prof Clive Catchpole. After 2 postdocs at
University of Stirling I held a personal research fellowship from the Royal Commission for the
Exhibition of 1851 at Cardiff University. I was a lecturer/Senior Lecturer there from 2003-early
2008 when I moved across the globe to take up as position at Deakin Unievrsity, based at
the Geelong campus.

Research interests

Evolution of animal signals
Physiological stress and acoustic signalling
Endocrine control of begging behaviour

Career

Senior lectureship Cardiff University ,UK 2003-2007
Research fellowship, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Cardiff University UK 2001-2003
Postdoctoral researcher, Stirling University UK 1997-2001
Ph.D. Royal Holloway University of London, UK 1993-1997
B.Sc. University of Glasgow 1989

Key publications

Markman, S., Leitner, S., Catchpole, C.K., S. Barnsley, D. Pascoe, C. T. Müller, and K. L. Buchanan (2008) Pollutants Increase Song Complexity and the Volume of the Brain area HVC in a Songbird PLoS ONE 3(2): , e1674

Buchanan K.L, A. R. Goldsmith, C. A. Hinde, S. C. Griffith and R. M. Kilner (2007) Does testosterone mediate the trade-off between nestling begging and growth in the canary (Serinus canaria)? Hormones and Behavior 52, 664-671

Goodship, N.M.and Buchanan, K.L (2007) Nestling testosterone controls begging behaviour in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca Hormones and Behaviour 52, , 454-460.

Buchanan, K.L., M.R. Evans, A.R. Goldsmith, D.M. Bryant & L.V. Rowe (2001) Testosterone influences basal metabolic rate in male house sparrows: a new cost of dominance signalling? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 268, 1337-1344.

Buchanan, K.L. (2000) Stress and the evolution of condition-dependent signals. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15, 156-160

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Professional activities

Editor of Emu Austral Ornithology
Member of Council, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
Secretary of the Ethics Committee, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
Consulting Editor for Animal Behaviour

Post doc fellows

NameProject title
Mathew BergEvolution of the rcrimson osella complex, Platycercus elegans

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
Joseph WoodgateEvolution of female preferences Ben KnottIndividual variation in avian colour vision

Honours students

Student nameThesis title Emanuel SchubertColouration in the crimson rosella: environmental effects

Teaching areas

Sensory Neurobiology and Behaviour
Honours projects in avian physiology, ecology and behaviour