{"id":368,"date":"2019-08-09T09:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bustonlab\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=368"},"modified":"2019-09-05T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:31:43","slug":"rebecca-branconi","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bustonlab\/profile\/rebecca-branconi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Branconi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Originally from Italy, I graduated with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Biology and Master\u2019s degree in Animal Behavior from Universita degli Studi di Firenze, in Italy. I have always been interested in animal social behavior and for my undergraduate and masters theses I studied the social behavior of the paper wasp <\/span><em><span class=\"style_1\">Polistes dominula<\/span><\/em><span>. As A Ph.D. student in the Buston Lab, co-advised by Dr. Marian Wong in Australia, I am using the damselfish <\/span><em><span class=\"style_1\">Dascyllus aruanus<\/span><\/em><span> as a model system to investigate the effect of social and ecological context on the formation and organization of social networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lab Publications <\/strong>(Google Scholar Profile; CV)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Branconi, R.<\/strong> <em><sup>D<\/sup><\/em>, Wong, M. &amp; <span>Buston, P.<\/span> (2019) Comparison of efficiency of direct observations by SCUBA diver and indirect observations via video camera for measuring reef fish behavior. <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jfb.13921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Journal of Fish Biology <\/em>94: 489-497<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Branconi, R.<\/strong> <em><sup>D<\/sup><\/em>, Garner, J. <em><sup>M<\/sup><\/em>, <span>Buston, P. M.<\/span> &amp; Wong, M. Y. L. (2019) A new non-invasive technique for temporarily tagging coral reef fishes. <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1643\/OT-18-057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Copeia <\/em>107: 85-91<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, C. <em><sup>U<\/sup><\/em>, <strong>Branconi, R.<\/strong> <em><sup>D<\/sup><\/em>, Majoris, J. <em><sup>P<\/sup><\/em>, Johnson, C. &amp; <span>Buston, P.<\/span> (2019) Competitive growth in a social fish. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rsbl.2018.0737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Royal Society, Biology Letters<\/em> 15: 20180737<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10365,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bustonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bustonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bustonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bustonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bustonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bustonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/368\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bustonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}