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Curriculum vitae
Education and experience
2016 to present: Senior University Lecturer, Lund University.
2014: Qualification as Docent in biology.
2012 to 2016: Independent researcher, Lund University.
2011 to 2012: Postdoctoral research, University of Tübingen, Germany, and Uppsala University, Sweden. Postdoc hosts: Dr. Klaus Reinhardt and Dr. Edward H. Morrow.
2009 to 2011: Postdoctoral research, Uppsala University, Sweden. Postdoc host: Dr. Edward H. Morrow.
2007 to 2009: Postdoctoral research, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Postdoc host: Dr. Adam Chippindale.
2002 to 2006: PhD in Ecology, Lund University, Sweden. Supervisor: Dr. Erik Svensson. Thesis defense held November 23rd 2006. External examiner: Dr. Daniel Promislow, University of Georgia.
2000 to 2001: Graduate degree in Animal Ecology ("Magister", equivalent to MSc), Lund University, Sweden. Supervisor: Dr. Erik Svensson
1997 to 2000: BSc in Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada (graduated 2001).
Peer-reviewed publications
Publication list, including abstracts and downloadable files
Citation numbers and metrics from ISI
Citation numbers and metrics from Google Scholar
Conference contributions
Abbott, J. K. (2017) Sexual antagonism: a genetic tug-of-war. Oral presentation, 39th Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA. International conference.
Abbott, J. K. & Tazzyman, S. J. (2016) Pleiotropic effects on investment permit the maintenance of polymorphic sexually antagonistic alleles in hermaphrodites. Oral presentation, Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop (SHOW), Bielefeld, Germany. International conference.
Abbott, J. K., Lund-Hansen, K. & Morrow, E. H. (2015) Female limited X-chromosome evolution reveals non-additivity of sexually antagonistic traits. Poster presentation, XVth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. International conference.
Lund-Hansen, K., Morrow, E. H. & Abbott, J. K. (2015) Coevolution of the sex chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster. Oral presentation by K. Lund-Hansen, XVth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. International conference.
Nordén, A. & Abbott, J. K. (2015) Intralocus sexual antagonism in a hermaphroditic flatworm. Poster presentation, XVth Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. International conference.
Abbott, J. K, & Persson, E. (2015) Applying statistical models to the Family Resemblance definition of "Life". Oral presentation, Second Conference on History and Philosophy of Astrobiology, Höör, Sweden. International conference.
Abbott, J. K. & Tazzyman, S. J. (2014) Pleiotropic effects on investment permit the maintenance of polymorphic sexually antagonistic alleles in hermaphrodites. Oral presentation, Evolution in Sweden, Uppsala, Sweden. National conference.
Abbott, J. K., Katayama, N., Kjærandsen , J. & Svensson, E.I. (2013) Sexual selection on a cryptic wing pattern trait in Drosophila. Poster, 14th congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Lisbon, Portugal. International conference. Poster file.
Abbott, J. K. (2012) Sexual antagonism in hermaphrodites: an individual-level genetic tug-of-war. Invited speaker, ISBE post-conference symposium "Recent developments in sexual selection research: History, trends and new horizons". International conference.
Abbott, J. K, Reinhardt, K., & Morrow, E. H. (2011) Genotype-by-environment effects of dietary yeast on sperm traits in Drosophila melanogaster. Poster, VW Foundation Status Symposium, Sylt, Germany. National conference. Poster file.
Abbott, J. K., Bedhomme, S., & Chippindale, A. K. (2011) Sexual conflict in wing size and shape in Drosophila melanogaster. Oral presentation, CAnMove symposium on Insect Flight, Lund, Sweden. International conference.
Abbott, J. K., Innocenti, P., Chippindale, A. K., & Morrow, E. H. (2011) Using experimental evolution to investigate X-linked sexually antagonistic genetic variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Poster, 13th congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Tübingen, Germany. International conference. Poster file.
Abbott, J. K. (2011) A newcomer's perspective on simultaneous hermaphrodites. Oral presentation, Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop (SHOW), Basel, Switzerland. International conference.
Chippindale, A. K., Bedhomme, S., Prasad, N. G., & Abbott, J. K. (2010) Gender load: Sexual dimorphism, fitness, and the experimental manipulation of intralocus sexual conflict. Oral presentation by A. K. Chippindale, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution. International Conference.
Abbott, J. K. (2008) Intersexual genetic correlations as constraints and as adaptations. Oral presentation, Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Vancouver, Canada. National conference.
Abbott, J. K. (2005) Morphological and developmental differences between female morphs in the damselfly Ischnura elegans. Oral presentation, 10th congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Krakow, Poland. International conference.
Abbott, J. K. (2004) Differences between morphs of I. elegans. Oral presentation, 10th conference for PhD students in Evolutionary Biology, Shrewsbury, UK. International conference.
Abbott, J. K. (2004) Skillnader i utvecklingstid och morfologi i den trimorfiska flicksländan Ischnura elegans. Oral presentation, Annual Meeting of the Swedish Ecological Society OIKOS, Linköping, Sweden. National conference.
Other publications
Abbott, J. K. (2006) Ontogeny and population biology of a sex-limited colour polymorphism. PhD thesis, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Abbott, J. K. (2005) Om en teoris uppkomst. Published in the Swedish-language internet magazine Yelah. (Popular science)
Commissons of trust
2015 to present: Secretary/treasurer for the Swedish Oikos Society.
2012 to present: Subject editor in evolutionary ecology for the journal Oikos.
2013 to present: Editorial review board member at Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
2016 to present: Editorial board member at Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Invited seminars
May, 2015: Crafoord prize lectures, Lund, Sweden.
April, 2013: University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.
May, 2012: University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
December, 2011: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany
August, 2011: University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
May 2011: University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
October 2010: Lund University, Lund, Sweden
September 2009: SLU, Umeå, Sweden
January 2009: Max Planck Institute, Jena, Germany
Fall 2008: Laurentian University Department of Biology, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Spring 2008: Trent University Department of Biology, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Fall 2006: Filosoficirkeln i Lund (Lund's Philosophy Circle), Lund, Sweden
Grants and awards
ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council, 2015.
Project Grant, Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2015.
Equipment grant, Nilsson-Ehle foundation, 2014.
Research grant, Crafoord Foundation, 2012 & 2014.
International collaboration grant, Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), 2013.
Equipment grant, Erik & Maja Lindqvist Foundation, 2012
Peerage of Science first annual reviewer award, 2012.
Junior Researcher Project Grant, Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2011.
Equipment grant, Carl Tryggers Foundation, 2009 & 2014.
Returning postdoc grant (Återvändarbidrag), Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2009.
Postdoctoral fellowship, Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2007.
Queen's University Academic Research Council Award, 2007.
Popular science
I am an expert on the popular science TV show Fråga Lund.
I administer the Biology Department's Q&A website, Fråga en Biolog.
Participated in Lund University's Lärarfortbildningsdagen.
Lectured about how your genes affect your daily life, presentations in Eslöv and Helsingborg, organized by Folkuniversitetet.
Participated in First European Science Slam in Copenhagen, 2014.
Interviewed on Swedish national radio about why fear can cause emptying of the bowel.
Interviewed on Swedish regional radio about why men have nipples.
Lectured about epigenetics at secondary schools in Skåne, organized by Forskningsnätet Skåne.
Participated in Vetenskap och Allmänhetens Dag 2013.
Held several Q&A sessions with elementary school students at the Museum of Evolution in Uppsala.