School of Biological Sciences postgraduate profiles

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
  • Bateman, Amber - Improving soil fertility and native plant establishment using soil amendments in post-mining rehabiliation
  • Beca, Gabrielle - Restoring degraded landscapes – The role of digging mammals on seedling recruitment
  • Bhoite, Roopali - Genetic analysis of herbicide tolerance in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
  • Bird, Toby - Characterization of Cluster-Root Development in the South-West Australian Native, Hakea prostrata
  • Birkmanis, Charlotte - Where and when sharks occur, and why
  • Bond, Todd - The interaction of fish and fisheries with subsea infrastructure
  • 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
  • Chen, Jinyi - Mechanisms for trifluralin resistance in L. rigidum
  • Cresswell, Anna - Disturbance dynamics in coral reef ecosystems
  • 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
  • Dayrell, Roberta - Natural regeneration in nutrient-impoverished landscapes
  • Dolatabadian, Aria - Copy Number Variation and Blackleg Resistance in Canola
  • 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
  • Hossain, Mohitul - Eco-physiology of canker-affected Corymbia calophylla (marri): interactive effects of pathogen and abiotic stress factors.
  • Hu, Haifei - Comparative pangenomics
  • Iles, Jordan - Biogeochemical cycling of phosphorus and organic matter within arid freshwater ecosystems
  • 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
  • Kildisheva, Olga - Seed-based Restoration in Cold and Hot Deserts
  • 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.
  • Macintyre, Paul - Vegetation mapping of the kwongan
  • Maroni, Paige - The evolution and ecology of Antarctic sea slugs
  • Martin, Belinda - The seagrass rhizosphere
  • Mastrantonis, Stanley - Modelling the conservation of wide ranging species
  • Mather, Caroline - The geochemistry, distribution and formation of calcretes
  • 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
  • Mulders, Yannick - Functional redundancy of seaweed canopies
  • Murley, Matilda - Invertebrates on rock platforms in WA
  • Neik, Ting - Identification of blackleg resistance gene in Brassica napus
  • Nestor, Benjamin - Uncovering how and why nitrogen uptake is restricted in a native Australian plant
  • Palmer, Bryony - Reintroductions of ecosystem engineers
  • Patrick Scheben, Armin - DNA fingerprinting in canola
  • Peel, Lauren - Population dynamics and ecology of the reef manta within the D'Arros Marine Protected Area
  • 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.
  • Pille Arnold, Juliana - Plant-pollinator networks in degraded landscapes
  • Pires, Rodrigo - Drought and heat stress effects in a urban bushland remnant
  • Poh, Eugenia - Neurochemical effects of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
  • Riviera, Fiamma - Testing ecological theory and informing restoration practice using temporal patterns in the floristics and functional traits of kwongan vegetation restored after mining
  • 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
  • Straub, Sandra - Extreme temperature impacts on seaweeds
  • Stubbs, Jessica - Foraging ecology and energetics of Ningaloo green turtles
  • 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
  • Tirnaz, Soodeh - DNA methylation in canola
  • Tuckett, Chenae - High latitude coral ecology
  • 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?
  • Yuan, Yuxuan - Uncovering structural variations using optimized plant reference genomes
  • Zarco Perello, Salvador - Tropical herbivorous fish in south-western Australia
  • Zhang, Fangning - Identification of blackleg resistance in wild Brassicaceae
  • Zhang, Yueqi - Pangenome study of blackleg disease patho-system
  • Zheng, Shilu - Intraspecific plant traits and herbivory in fragmented habitats

Graduated students