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School of Biological Sciences
Current postgraduates
(David) Arora, Erica - Ecosystem aerodynamics in restoration
Amas, Junrey - Novel resistance against the blackleg pathogen, Leptosphaeria maculans
Anderson, Robyn - Deep Learning in Plants
Beca, Gabrielle - Restoring degraded landscapes – The role of digging mammals on seedling recruitment
Bird, Toby - Characterization of Cluster-Root Development in the South-West Australian Native, Hakea prostrata
Birkmanis, Charlotte - Where and when sharks occur, and why
Booth, Mitchell - Seagrass Adaptation and Acclimation
Bosch, Nestor E. - Effects of ocean warming on fish biodiversity
Brooker, Michael - Recruitment and Distribution of Sub-Adult Western Rock Lobster
Cantila, Aldrin - Blackleg resistance genes in Canola and its wild relatives
Cattaneo Fernandes, Marjorie - Pelagic fish of Marine Reserves
Cummins, Deanne - Can targeted gene flow be used to conserve species that are threatened by climate change?
Davies, Harriet - Planning for Change in Island Seascapes
Donohue, Callum - Understanding the effect of context of escape responses in fiddler crabs
Emery, Jon-Paul - Maximizing conservation outcomes for the blue-tailed skink and Lister's gecko
Etchells, Hannah - Ecological impacts of catastrophic wildfire in southwestern Australia
Frick, Karen - Genomic research for the improvement of Narrow-leafed lupin (Lupinus angustifolius L.) grain.
Furaste Danilevicz, Monica - The application of deep learning models to detect disease and stress signs in canola leaves
Gammon, Malindi - Predicting the vulnerability of flatback turtle rookeries to a changing climate
Gibson Vega, Aline - Genetics and ecology of a small passerine bird, the western grasswren
Hadiyanto, Hadiyanto - Biogeographical patterns of rocky intertidal assemblages
Hadlow, Jessica - Context-dependent selection at the gamete level
Hanrio, Eliot - Characterisation of pathogens in abalones Haliotis spp. from Western Australia
Hare, Robin - What happens when females compete for mates?
Heidrich, Kristina - Reconstruction and analyses of data for the global large pelagic fisheries
Hennessy, Lauren - Investigating low intensity rTMS as a treatment for behavioural and clinical depression
Hermawaty, Dina - Organelle dynamics in grapevine bud
Hoffmann, Emily - Improving conservation outcomes for Critically Endangered white-bellied frogs
Holmes, Kathryn - Ontogeny of male alliance formation in wild bottlenose dolphins
Hood, Lincoln - The impact of vessel traffic noise on marine wildlife
Hu, Haifei - Comparative pangenomics
Ilyasova, Albina - The effect of soil phosphorus status on leaf development in Hakea prostrata in its native habitat
Iqbal, Muhammad Munir - Genetics of adaptation of yellow lupins to dryland conditions
Irvine, Calum - Response of wildlife to urbanisation
Jessop, Anna-Lee - Neural correlates of predator avoidance in the fiddler crab
Jiang, Leanne - Identifying genetic variants in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Jung, Maria - Seagrass productivity under environmental stressors
Kanta Bhandari, Shes - Individual based growth modelling in Eucalyptus marginata
Krige, Anna-Sheree - Identifying invertebrate vector candidates of Australian wildlife trypanosomes
Leeson, Sarah - Population genetics of Australia's introduced dung beetles
Leonard McElhinney, Jack - Oxygen stress in fishes
Lewis, Megan - Sustainable gastrointestinal nematode control
Liu, Shutong - Phosphorus-Use and Nitrogen-Use Strategies of Native Plants in South-western Australia
Lopez, Naima Andrea - Understanding spatial and temporal patterns of oceanic sharks: implications for management and conservation.
Maroni, Paige - The evolution and ecology of Antarctic sea slugs
Mastrantonis, Stanley - Modelling the conservation of wide ranging species
Merce, Clementine - DNA methylation study
Middleton, Jen - Nutrient pathways and processing in urban streams
Minemba, David - Sweet potato rhizosphere
Mirfakhraei, Bahram - Seed sourcing for plant restoration under changing environmental conditions.
Mohammed, Akeel - Downy Mildew on oilseed Brassicas – understanding the drivers of disease epidemics and potential of novel host resistances
Mohd Saad, Nur Shuhadah - Finding genes in canola to fight against blackleg
Moretti, Jessica - Cognitive effects of LI-rTMS
Moschilla, Joe - Understanding the mechanisms and evolutionary consequences of individual behavioural variation
Moustaka, Molly - Seascape configuration and secondary productivity
Mulders, Yannick - Functional redundancy of seaweed canopies
Murley, Matilda - Invertebrates on rock platforms in WA
Nestor, Benjamin - Uncovering how and why nitrogen uptake is restricted in a native Australian plant
Nordstrom, Bethany - Assisted colonisation of the Western Swamp Turtle
Palmer, Bryony - Reintroductions of ecosystem engineers
Patrick Scheben, Armin - DNA fingerprinting in canola
Pessarrodona Silvestre, Albert - Kelp forest resilience to climate change
Picknoll, Joanne - Modelling stationary beekeeping sites
Piggott, Camilla - Fish recruitment in coastal habitats of north-west Australia.
Poh, Eugenia - Neurochemical effects of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Rick, Kate - Divergence in island mammals
Roper, Erika - Urban cockatoos
Ruscalleda Alvarez, Jaume - Proximal sensing of native plants physiology
Sewell, Isobel - Utilising insect meal in freshwater aquaculture.
Shahin Uz Zaman, Md - Waterlogging tolerance at germination in pea
Shen, Qi - Phosphorus acquisition in native south-western Australian plant species, and facilitation by phosphorus-mobilising neighbours of Adenanthos cygnorum (Proteaceae)
Skates, Laura - How hungry are carnivorous plants?
Sloan, Nadia - Coevolution of male and female genitalia in millipedes.
Soravia, Camilla - Heat stress and cognition in a wild animal
Speechley, Lizzie - Sociality, cognition and communication
Sullivan, Siobhan - Post-restoration drought shapes plant communities on iron ore mine waste
Sultan Mia, Md - Drought tolerance in bread wheat
Tay Fernandez, Cassandria - Assembling a legume pan pan-genome
Thomas, William - Identifying canola disease resistance genes
Thompson, Christopher - Resetting the Baseline: the ecology of remote pelagic fish assemblages
Thorn, Sian - The population and spatial ecology of the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) in the Upper Warren
Tickler, David - Spatial ecology of tropical reef sharks
Tuffley, Emma-Jade - catchability of the western rock lobster
Walsh, Sarah - Call combinations in Western Australian magpies
Wang, Xingyi - Genetic Analysis of Seed Dormancy for Pre-harvest Sprouting Resistance in Wheat
Wilkinson, Bryony - Chlorotic decline of eucalypts in urban parklands
Wong, Wei San - Effects of microbes on plant ecophysiology
Wyber, Blake - Are environmental contexts important for understanding sexual conflict?
Zarco Perello, Salvador - Tropical herbivorous fish in south-western Australia
Zhang, Yueqi - Pangenome study of blackleg disease patho-system
Zheng, Shilu - Intraspecific plant traits and herbivory in fragmented habitats
Graduated students
Ayre, Bronwyn - Pollination of the Red and Green Kangaroo Paw
Bateman, Amber - Improving soil fertility and native plant establishment using soil amendments in post-mining rehabiliation
Bhoite, Roopali - Genetic analysis of herbicide tolerance in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Bond, Todd - The interaction of fish and fisheries with subsea infrastructure
Camilieri-Asch, Victoria - The sense of smell in sharks compared to other fishes
Chen, Jinyi - Mechanisms for trifluralin resistance in L. rigidum
Cresswell, Anna - Disturbance dynamics in coral reef ecosystems
Dayrell, Roberta - Natural regeneration in nutrient-impoverished landscapes
Dolatabadian, Aria - Copy Number Variation and Blackleg Resistance in Canola
Filipczyk, Arkadiusz - Evolution of sexes
Forrest, Andrew - Conservation of pelagic wildlife
Hammer, Timothy Andrew - Drivers of diversification in Ptilotus (Mulla Mulla)
Hossain, Mohitul - Eco-physiology of canker-affected Corymbia calophylla (marri): interactive effects of pathogen and abiotic stress factors.
Igreja Andre, Goncalo - Penis size – does it really matter?
Iles, Jordan - Biogeochemical cycling of phosphorus and organic matter within arid freshwater ecosystems
Kildisheva, Olga - Seed-based Restoration in Cold and Hot Deserts
Lymbery, Samuel - Kin selection and female harm
Macintyre, Paul - Vegetation mapping of the kwongan
Martin, Belinda - The seagrass rhizosphere
Mather, Caroline - The geochemistry, distribution and formation of calcretes
Neik, Ting - Identification of blackleg resistance gene in Brassica napus
Peel, Lauren - Population dynamics and ecology of the reef manta within the D'Arros Marine Protected Area
Pille Arnold, Juliana - Plant-pollinator networks in degraded landscapes
Pires, Rodrigo - Drought and heat stress effects in a urban bushland remnant
Riviera, Fiamma - Testing ecological theory and informing restoration practice using temporal patterns in the floristics and functional traits of kwongan vegetation restored after mining
Soh, Malcolm - Effects of environmental change on montane communities
Straub, Sandra - Extreme temperature impacts on seaweeds
Stubbs, Jessica - Foraging ecology and energetics of Ningaloo green turtles
Tirnaz, Soodeh - DNA methylation in canola
Tuckett, Chenae - High latitude coral ecology
Umbrello, Linette - Genetics and evolution of Australian desert mammals
Venables, Stephanie - Population genetics of reef manta rays, Manta alfredi.
Yuan, Yuxuan - Uncovering structural variations using optimized plant reference genomes
Zhang, Fangning - Identification of blackleg resistance in wild Brassicaceae