Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine

Lyndsey Stewart

Contact details

Room 321b, Graham Kerr Building
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine
College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ

Email: l.stewart.2@research.gla.ac.uk
Tel: 0141 330 4769


Academic History

  • 2009 - present: PhD University of Glasgow "Dietary effects on resource allocation, oxidative stress and senescence in fish". This project is funded by a  NERC studentship and is supervised by Dr. Jan Lindstrom, Prof. Neil Metcalfe and Prof. Alan Crozier
  • 2008 - 2009: MRes (with distinction) University of Glasgow - Marine & Freshwater Biology and Environmental Management
  • 2004 - 2008: Bsc Hons University of Glasgow - Marine and Freshwater Biology

Research Interests

Throughout my undergraduate degree I developed a particular interest in coral reef biology and spent two consecutive summers taking part in scientific conservation programs in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia.  During this time, I progressed with my dive training and joined a coral reef monitoring team in order to acquire skills necessary for collecting data for my both my undergraduate project and masters project described below.

Working alongside Marine Harvest and BENEFISH (a project funded by the EC), I investigated using fin damage as an operational welfare indicator in Scottish salmon smolt production and in smolt transportation. This project encouraged me to broaden my research interests and I developed a particular interest in the concept of fish welfare. This project gave me the opportunity to participate in the BENEFISH conference in Portugal in 2008.

More recently, my research will focus within the field of behavioural ecology and in particular, life-history strategies. My current research project will investigate the effect of resveratrol on resource allocation and reproductive investment, combining experimental manipulation of dietary restriction, resveratrol and carotenoid content in the diet of three-spined sticklebacks, and thereby subjecting fish to resource allocation trade-offs.


Publications

  • Lyndsey Stewart, Sunil Kadri, Chris Noble and Felicity Huntingford. (2010)
    A case study of the BENEFISH model examining the economic impact of demand feeding in Scottish smolt production.
    Aquaculture Economics and Management (In press.)

Previous Research Projects

  • 2009: An analysis of the economic and welfare consequences of implementing on-demand feeding systems into freshwater smolt production; using fin damage as an operational welfare indicator (Mres. thesis supervised by Prof. Felicity Huntingford in association with the BENEFISH project).
  • 2009: A comparative study of alternative methods to measure substrate cover and coral diversity in the coral reefs around Tobago, West Indies. (Mres. Thesis supervised by Dr David Bailey in association with the Buccoo Reef Trust, Tobago, West Indies).
  • 2008: The abundance, diversity and size frequency of bivalve molluscs associated with coral reefs in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Sulawesi. Indonesia. (Bsc. thesis supervised by Dr Isobel Coombs and Operation Wallacea).