Tosh, Colin - Newcastle University

个人简介

2015-present: Lecturer - Ecology, Evolution, Computational Biology 2010-2015: NERC Advanced Fellowship, School of Biology, University of Newcastle 2007-2010: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, University of Leeds 2004-2007: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Division of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow 2001-2003: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Division of Biology Ecology and Evolution, Imperial College Silwood Park 1999-2000: DEFRA-CSL, York 1994-1998: DPhil, Department of Biology, University of York 1990-1994: BSc, School of Biology, University of St Andrews

研究领域

Most of what I do, in one way or another, relates to how organisms respond to environmental complexity and diversity. I have considered how predator targeting accuracy varies with prey group size and complexity (the confusion effect), how niche width may evolve to cope with the demands of a complex sensory environment, and I am beginning to look at the impacts of diversity in agroecosystems on animal behaviour. I use a mixture of computational modelling (esp. neural networks) and laboratory-based experiments on animal behaviour. Most of my lab work at the moment focusses on Drosophila melanogaster and the whitefly plant pest, Trialeurodes vaporariorum.

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Tosh CR, Conboy N, McDaniel T. Scientists have unlocked the secret of making tomatoes taste of something again. The Conversation Trust, 2017. Available at: https://theconversation.com/scientists-have-unlocked-the-secret-of-making-tomatoes-taste-of-something-again-71916. Tosh CR. Can computational efficiency alone drive the evolution of modularity in neural networks?. Scientific Reports 2016, 6, 31982. Pradabphetrat P, Aroonsrimorakot S, Füreder L, Colin T, Piyapong C. Differences in Predator Avoidance by Native and Non-native Invasive Apple Snails in Thailand. Journal of Research, Science and Technology for Learning 2016, 7(2), 325-338. McDaniel T, Tosh CR, Gatehouse AMR, George D, Robson M, Brogan B. Novel resistance mechanisms of a wild tomato against the glasshouse whitefly. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 2016, 36(1), 14. Tosh CR, Brogan B. Control of tomato whiteflies using the confusion effect of plant odours. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 2015, 35(1), 183-193. Tosh CR, McNally L. The relative efficiency of modular and non-modular networks of different size. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 2015, 282(1802), 20142568. Tosh CR, Ruxton GD, Krause J, Franks DW. Experiments with humans indicate that decision accuracy drives the evolution of niche width. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2011, 278(1724), 3504-3509. Tosh CR. Which conditions promote negative density dependent selection on prey aggregations?. Journal of Theoretical Biology 2011, 281(1), 24-30. Chapman BB, Morrell LJ, Tosh CR, Krause J. Behavioural consequences of sensory plasticity in guppies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B: Biological Sciences 2010, 277(1686), 1395-1401. Lewis HM, Tosh CR, O'Keefe S, Shuker DM, West SA, Mayhew PJ. Constraints on adaptation: explaining deviation from optimal sex ratio using artificial neural networks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2010, 23(8), 1708-1719. Faria JJ, Dyer JRG, Tosh CR, Krause J. Leadership and social information use in human crowds. Animal Behaviour 2010, 79(4), 895-901. Tosh CR, Ruxton GD, ed. Modelling Perception With Artificial Neural Networks. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Tosh CR, Krause J, Ruxton GD. Basic features, conjunctive searches, and the confusion effect in predator–prey interactions. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2009, 63(3), 473-475. Tosh CR, Krause J, Ruxton GD. Theoretical predictions strongly support decision accuracy as a major driver of ecological specialization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009, 106(14), 5698-5702. Tosh CR, Ruxton GD. Notes and comments - Body plan of consumed organisms influences ecological range of consumers through neural processing bias. The American Naturalist 2008, 171(2), 267-273. Ioannou CC, Tosh CR, Neville L, Krause J. The confusion effect - from neural networks to reduced predation risk. Behavioral Ecology 2008, 19(1), 126-130. Ruxton GD, Jackson AL, Tosh CR. Confusion of predators does not rely on specialist coordinated behavior. Behavioral Ecology 2007, 18(3), 590-596. Tosh CR, Jackson AL, Ruxton GD. Individuals from different-looking animal species may group together to confuse shared predators: simulations with artificial neural networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B: Biological Sciences 2007, 274(1611), 827-832. Tosh CR, Ruxton GD, Graeme D. Introduction: The use of artificial neural networks to study perception in animals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B: Biological Sciences 2007, 362(1479), 337-338. Tosh CR, Ruxton GD. The need for stochastic replication of ecological neural networks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B: Biological Sciences 2007, 362(1479), 455-460. Tosh CR, Ruxton GD. Artificial neural network properties associated with wiring patterns in the visual projections of vertebrates and arthropods. The American Naturalist 2006, 168(2), E38-E52. Powell G, Tosh CR, Hardie J. Host plant selection by aphids: behavioral, evolutionary, and applied perspectives. Annual Review of Entomology 2006, 51, 309-330. Tosh CR, Jackson AL, Ruxton GD. The confusion effect in predatory neural networks. The American Naturalist 2006, 167(2), E52-E65. Tosh CR, Vamvatsikos PG, Hardie J. A highly viable cross between Aphis fabae (Homoptera : Aphididae) clones with different plant preference. Environmental Entomology 2004, 33(4), 1081-1087. Powell G, Tosh CR, Hardie J. Parturition by colonising aphids: no correlation with phloem ingestion. In: Aphids in a New Millennium: 6th International Symposium on Aphids. 2004, Rennes, France: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique.