Dr Sarah Dalesman
PhDFellow of the HEA
Lecturer in Freshwater Biology
Contact Details
- Email: sad31@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-8548-3096
- Office: 2.05, Edward Llwyd Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622344
- Personal Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah_Dalesman/
- Twitter: Snail_memory
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=bn3EHAwAAAAJ
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
I started with a PhD in behavioural ecology at the University of Plymouth assessing antipredator behaviour in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis. Sticking with snails, I then moved over to Canada in 2008 and worked in a neurobiology laboratory at the University of Calgary funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions. Most of the work I did in Calgary was on stress and memory, with particular focus on how different forms of stress can interact to affect memory formation (http://theconversation.com/forgetful-snails-could-tell-us-about-how-our-memories-work-20935). Did you know chocolate can improve memories?.....In snails at least! (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2012/09/30/how-to-improve-snail-memories-with-chocolate/). In 2012 I moved back to the U.K. as a research fellow at the University of Exeter, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, which I retained on joining Aberystwyth in January 2014.
I still work with pond snails assessing the factors that drive individual differences in cognition and developing work on sentience in gastropods; however, my personal interests in dog training has also led to me developing research around dog cognition and behaviour.
If you are interested in an MRes or PhD in either of these areas, please get in touch!
Teaching
Module Coordinator
Lecturer
- BR22020 - Freshwater Biology
- BR36440 - Research Project
- BRM3560 - Dissertation
- BR21620 - Animal Behaviour
- BRS0060 - Integrated Year in Industry
- BG27520 - Dulliau Ymchwil
- RD25620 - Research Methods
- BR23920 - Behavioural Ecology
- BR30220 - Advanced Animal Behaviour
- BR15720 - Skills for Wildlife Scientists
- RG25620 - Dulliau Ymchwil
- BR27520 - Research Methods
- BG25620 - Dulliau Ymchwil
- BR25620 - Research Methods
- BR35320 - Behavioural Neurobiology
- BR33420 - Global Biodiversity Conservation
Tutor
- BR22020 - Freshwater Biology
- BR35020 - Marine and Freshwater Field Course
- BR23920 - Behavioural Ecology
- BR36440 - Research Project
- BR35320 - Behavioural Neurobiology
- BR30220 - Advanced Animal Behaviour
- BR15720 - Skills for Wildlife Scientists
- BRS0060 - Integrated Year in Industry
- BRM6160 - MRes Dissertation (B)
- BR27520 - Research Methods
- BRM2860 - MBiol Research Project
Moderator
- BR33220 - Fish Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture
- BR25320 - Human, Equine and Canine Exercise Physiology and Locomotion
- BR25820 - Aquatic Botany
Coordinator
Grader
- BR36440 - Research Project
- BRM1620 - Infection and Immunity
- BRM6420 - Research Methods in the Biosciences
- BRM3560 - Dissertation
Course Viewer
Responsibilities
Scheme coordinator for the Marine and Freshwater Biology degree
Student Experience lead for the Department of Life Sciences
Athena Swan committee member, Aberystwyth University
Research Groups
- Marine environmental impacts and remedies