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Stora Karlsö, 2017
Standing at the interface between evolutionary ecology and ecophysiology, my research mostly focuses on hormone-mediated phenotypic and developmental plasticity, and life-history variation. I use integrated approaches to tackle the questions I am interested, including experiments using captive and wild animals, statistical modelling to partition variation at different levels of biological organizations, as well as phylogenetic comparative methods. So far, birds have been my main model system due to my strong interest in ornithology. Nevertheless, I am always looking to expand my research to other interesting topics, the integration of other approaches and techniques, as well as non-avian model systems.
News
2025.02 This website has been hung out there to dry for too long! Life in Taiwan is, somehow, not easier. That being said, it is now time to announce two extremely exciting news: Starting from February, I have joined the faculty of Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, as an assistant professor. Moreover, I have won the Yushan Young Fellowship, which comes with an additional 5-year funding to support my research. My Asian House Martin project will continue and I now have a few amazing students who are going to start some preliminary work. I am so pleased and excited to see what fascinating projects will sprout from their work!
2024 I have left Finland and returned to Taiwan, my home country, for a new project that studies the genomic and hormonal mechanisms underlying the plastic altitudinal migratory strategies in Asian House Martins (Delichon dasypus). As the co-PI for the new project, I am working at the Biodiversity Research Center as a postdoctoral fellow since December, 2023.
2023.10.04 The big project that compares the estimated effect sizes by many analysts in ecology and evolutionary biology has released their pre-print! Very pleasant for having contributed my own analysis for this project!
2023.10.03 Mikaela's paper about the potential epigenetic effects by prenatal corticosterone and thyroid hormones in great tits is now publicly available.
2023.01.30 New paper out: the accepted version of our experiment that showed prenatal thyroid hormones accelerate postnatal growth and telomere shortening in wild great tits has been available!
2022.10.21 Symposium proposal accepted! Together with Matthew Fuxjager, we are going to host a symposium in the 14th European Ornithologists' Union Congress (EOU 2023) in Lund, Sweden, exploring how hormones involve in the evolution of avian physiology, behavior, and life histories. Already feel excited!
2022.08.01 Returned home from the 12th International Symposium on Avian Endocrinology (ISAE). Thrilled to be able to talk to real people about science again (although, as always, became exhausted in the end...).
2022.07.22 After almost three months, we are leaving Wilhelmshaven. Sincerely hope that the rest of the terns will be well and many chicks will successfully fledge and return in two years. You are survivors of avian flu!
2022.05.08 Our paper about interspecific variation in maternally transferred thyroid hormones in birds has been available in Journal of Animal Ecology website. Open access!
2022.03.21 Finally! Our manuscript describing the relationship between maternally-transferred thyroid hormones and life histories in birds has been accepted by the Journal of Animal Ecology. I am glad that we finally pull through the most painful revision process I have had by far.
2021.10.22 Congratulations! Dr. Tom Sarraude. So proud that I get to play an important part in your dissertation, and it is really my great pleasure to sit in the committee as a supervisor.
2021.10.22 Great pleasure to participate in the symposium Behavioral and Ecological Endocrinology prior to Tom's defense as a speaker!
2021.07.06 Fieldwork done! Thanks to the great help from Marja Hallikainen, Iina Kari, and more importantly, my wife Hsiao-Yin, who has assisted me with fieldwork almost everyday.
2020.12.03 New publication: Our short review on context-dependent effects of maternal hormones is officially published! The discrepancy in the effects of maternal hormones across studies should be viewed as reflecting the more interesting, albeit likely complex, nature of the true function of maternal hormones, instead of a hindrance on our interest in this topic and investment in further studies.
2020.11.24 Finally! The excellent review on Endocrinology of thermoregulation in birds is out! It is a paper that has expanded my view by participating. Learned a lot from Suvi and Andreas.
2020.11.11 New publication: Our experiment in Gotland, Sweden, revealed unexpected effects that nestlings hatched from eggs with elevated yolk thyroid hormones had longer telomeres than control chicks at a very early postnatal age. Great work by Antoine! Check it out here: Born to be young: prenatal thyroid hormones increase early-life telomere length.
2020.11.10 Tom's new paper is officially published. Check it out if you haven't: Testing different forms of regulation of yolk thyroid hormone transfer in pied flycatchers.
2020.10.16 New publication by Tom: Testing the short- and long-term effects of elevated prenatal exposure to different forms of thyroid hormones.
2020.09.24 New accepted manuscript by Tom: Testing different forms of regulation of yolk thyroid hormone transfer in pied flycatchers.
2020.09.06 Test opening of this website!
2020.09.03 New publication: Testing for context-dependent effects of prenatal thyroid hormones on offspring survival and physiology: an experimental temperature manipulation.
2020.09.01 Interns at master-student level wanted for phylogenetic comparative analyses in thyroid hormones! Read more here!
2020.09.01 My new Academy of Finland funded project "Thyroid hormones: drivers of life-history variation?" officially starts!
2024 I have left Finland and returned to Taiwan, my home country, for a new project that studies the genomic and hormonal mechanisms underlying the plastic altitudinal migratory strategies in Asian House Martins (Delichon dasypus). As the co-PI for the new project, I am working at the Biodiversity Research Center as a postdoctoral fellow since December, 2023.
2023.10.04 The big project that compares the estimated effect sizes by many analysts in ecology and evolutionary biology has released their pre-print! Very pleasant for having contributed my own analysis for this project!
2023.10.03 Mikaela's paper about the potential epigenetic effects by prenatal corticosterone and thyroid hormones in great tits is now publicly available.
2023.01.30 New paper out: the accepted version of our experiment that showed prenatal thyroid hormones accelerate postnatal growth and telomere shortening in wild great tits has been available!
2022.10.21 Symposium proposal accepted! Together with Matthew Fuxjager, we are going to host a symposium in the 14th European Ornithologists' Union Congress (EOU 2023) in Lund, Sweden, exploring how hormones involve in the evolution of avian physiology, behavior, and life histories. Already feel excited!
2022.08.01 Returned home from the 12th International Symposium on Avian Endocrinology (ISAE). Thrilled to be able to talk to real people about science again (although, as always, became exhausted in the end...).
2022.07.22 After almost three months, we are leaving Wilhelmshaven. Sincerely hope that the rest of the terns will be well and many chicks will successfully fledge and return in two years. You are survivors of avian flu!
2022.05.08 Our paper about interspecific variation in maternally transferred thyroid hormones in birds has been available in Journal of Animal Ecology website. Open access!
2022.03.21 Finally! Our manuscript describing the relationship between maternally-transferred thyroid hormones and life histories in birds has been accepted by the Journal of Animal Ecology. I am glad that we finally pull through the most painful revision process I have had by far.
2021.10.22 Congratulations! Dr. Tom Sarraude. So proud that I get to play an important part in your dissertation, and it is really my great pleasure to sit in the committee as a supervisor.
2021.10.22 Great pleasure to participate in the symposium Behavioral and Ecological Endocrinology prior to Tom's defense as a speaker!
2021.07.06 Fieldwork done! Thanks to the great help from Marja Hallikainen, Iina Kari, and more importantly, my wife Hsiao-Yin, who has assisted me with fieldwork almost everyday.
2020.12.03 New publication: Our short review on context-dependent effects of maternal hormones is officially published! The discrepancy in the effects of maternal hormones across studies should be viewed as reflecting the more interesting, albeit likely complex, nature of the true function of maternal hormones, instead of a hindrance on our interest in this topic and investment in further studies.
2020.11.24 Finally! The excellent review on Endocrinology of thermoregulation in birds is out! It is a paper that has expanded my view by participating. Learned a lot from Suvi and Andreas.
2020.11.11 New publication: Our experiment in Gotland, Sweden, revealed unexpected effects that nestlings hatched from eggs with elevated yolk thyroid hormones had longer telomeres than control chicks at a very early postnatal age. Great work by Antoine! Check it out here: Born to be young: prenatal thyroid hormones increase early-life telomere length.
2020.11.10 Tom's new paper is officially published. Check it out if you haven't: Testing different forms of regulation of yolk thyroid hormone transfer in pied flycatchers.
2020.10.16 New publication by Tom: Testing the short- and long-term effects of elevated prenatal exposure to different forms of thyroid hormones.
2020.09.24 New accepted manuscript by Tom: Testing different forms of regulation of yolk thyroid hormone transfer in pied flycatchers.
2020.09.06 Test opening of this website!
2020.09.03 New publication: Testing for context-dependent effects of prenatal thyroid hormones on offspring survival and physiology: an experimental temperature manipulation.
2020.09.01 Interns at master-student level wanted for phylogenetic comparative analyses in thyroid hormones! Read more here!
2020.09.01 My new Academy of Finland funded project "Thyroid hormones: drivers of life-history variation?" officially starts!
