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
• 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