Rowan McGinley
Education
2006 - 2009:
BSc (Hon), Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University. GPA: 4.0/4.0, First Class Honours
Recieved a Vice Chancellor’s commendation for Academic Excellence and the Brain, Behaviour & Evolution Honours Scholarship
2010 - 2015:
PhD, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University.
Thesis Title: “Fighting strategies and mechanisms behind contest resolution in the jumping spider Servaea incana”
Supervised by Phil Taylor.
Research Experience
2016 - 2020:
Postdoc in the Hebets Lab at UNL, studying the evolution of complex communication in the wolf spider genus Schizocosa.
2010 - 2012:
Field assistant in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, studying behaviour of the assassin bug, Stenolemus giraffa and natural history of the jumping spider Megaloastia mainae.
2008 - 2009:
Macquarie University Advanced Biology Summer Research Internship. Field assistant, studying the behaviour of the assassin bug Ptilocnemus lemur near the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia.
2007 - 2008:
Macquarie University Advanced Biology Summer Research Internship. Field assistant, studying the mating systems of the Australian Brush Turkeys (Alectura lathami) on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia
2007:
Macquarie University Advanced Chemistry Summer Research Internship. Laboratory assistant, Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, Macquarie University
2006 - 2007:
Macquarie University Advanced Biology Summer Research Internship. Laboratory Assistant, Behavioural Ecology & Evolution of Fishes.
Teaching Experience
2018
Lecturer
BIOS 462/862: Animal Behavior
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2015
Unit Convenor
SCI140: Introduction to Brain Behaviour & Evolution
Macquarie University
Tutor
BBE100: Introduction to Brain Behaviour & Evolution
Macquarie University
2014
Tutor
SCI140: Introduction to Brain Behaviour & Evolution
Macquarie University
2013
Head Tutor
BBE100: Introduction to Brain Behaviour & Evolution
Macquarie University
2012
Secondary Project Supervisor
BBE300: Independent Research Project
Macquarie University
2011
Tutor
BBE101: Evolution & Human Behaviour
Macquarie University
Tutor
BBE100: Introduction to Brain Behaviour & Evolution
Macquarie University
Awards
2010
Runner-Up Best Student Talk
Australian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference
Narrabri, NSW, Australia
2009
Brain, Behaviour & Evolution Honours Scholarship
Macquarie University
2008
Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence
Macquarie University
Affilitations/Memberships
Member of the Australian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASSAB)
Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society
Other Interests
Travel, Food, Music, Sports, Movies, Endurance Beach-Walking, Culture, Emotions...
More specifically, I enjoy athletics, basketball and travelling and I’m also trying to learn spanish
