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Current Postgraduate Students

Biology and Physiology of Algae
 Ellen Doxey
Genetics, physiology and cell biology of plants and algae
 Stuart Larsen
Dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) production of sub-tropical coccolithophores in response to environmental forcing
 Sven Ihnken
Effects of different irradiance levels and elevated carbon dioxide concentrations on marine microalgae
 Jackie Myers
Factors affecting germination, growth and toxicity of Nodularia species in the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia
      
Ecology and Conservation Biology
 Mardiana Ali
Role of stream macrophytes in biodiversity and ecosystem processes in intermittent streams
 Nevil Amos
Spatial analysis of patch and landscape-scale population genetics to determine functional connectivity for birds in fragmented box ironbark landscapes
 Silvana Cesarini
Quantification of the barrier effect of roads on the movement and dispersal of the squirrel glider Petaurus norfolcensis and assessment of mitigation structures
 Amber Clarke
Multiscale patterns and determinants of aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity in the headwaters of a major river basin: implications for policy and management
 Karen Cooper
Catchment scale effects on the ecology of rivers
 Tara Draper
Reproductive isolation and incipient speciation in sympatric Otway Ranges populations of the Agile Antechinus (Antechinus agilis)
 Birgita Hansen
Genetic analysis of the leadbeaters possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) populations in Victoria
 Brian Hawkins
Landscape bird ecology
 Susie Ho
Weaving Gambusia holbrooki into endemic food webs
 Gillis Horner
Regeneration and habitat diversity of RiverRed Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehn.) communities of the Murray River
 Greg Horrocks
Influence of stand condition of the ant fauna of river red gums on Victorian floodplains
 Elise King
Dispersal mediated assemblage dynamics of nektonic intermittent stream fauna
 Angelique Martinez
Biology of Acacias
 Alissa Monk
Investigation into contaminants in Bottlenose Dolphin populations in coastal Victoria, Australia
 John Morrongiello
Spatial population dynamics of stream biota
 Giselle Perdomo
Effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on biodiversity
 Jody Simmons
Investigate gene flow and genetic diversity in continuous forest versus remnant native forest within 'a sea of pine'
 Megan Wong
Do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) influence the vegetation community structure and function of semi arid grasslands?
Vertebrate Physiology, Development, & Behaviour
 Sherrie Caarels
The basis of plant-herbivore biomechanical interactions in 'chewing' insects
 Daniel Decanini
Behavioural and evolutionary ecology
 Lorenz Frick
Capture stress and post-release fate of three small shark species
Christopher Johnstone Christopher Johnstone
Impact of landscape fragmentation on stress in small birds
 Noriyoshi Kawasaki
Evolutionary behavioural  ecology of co-operation in the common marmoset (Callithrix Jacchus)
 Helene Lowry
Behavioural ecology of red-rumped parrots
 Camila Martins
Physiological and reproductive consequences of fisheries capture to native sharks
 Tiana Preston
Investigation of the relationships between diet, foraging and reproductive success in the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor)
 Megan Price
Impacts of human disturbance on behaviour, physiology and wellbeing of wild vertebrates
 Anthony Rafferty        
Evolutionary Processes
 Rowan Brookes
Does flowering time influence sex allocation in Stylidium armeria?
 Valerie Caron
Investigation into aspects of the biology of the invasive willow sawfly
 Magdalena Carrasco
Traffic and transportation in ant colonies: natural engineering by insect societies
 Kate Charlton
Conservation genetics of the Victorian Bottlenose Dolphin population
 Fiona Cockerell
Genetic basis of thermal stress adaptation in drosophila
 Travis Johnson
Molecular/genetic dissection of natural polymorphisms within the Hsr-omega gene of Drosophila melonogaster
 Mani Shrestha
Selaginella: a model system for the evolutionary ecology of reproduction in plants.
 Elissa Suhr
Population structure and status of the invasive Argentine ant in Victoria
 Avi Waksberg
The effect of context upon food selection by Argentine ants
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
 Yadollah Bahrami
Immunomodulation of ESAT-6 towards a plant-made tuberculosis vaccine
 Morgan Beale
Odorant receptors and olfactory signalling in Drosophila
 Tim Binks
Functional analysis of metal ion transport in the Drosphila digestive system
 Bree Jamie Buszard
Functional characterisation of the Drosophila protein tyrosine phosphatase dPTP61F
 Tova Crossman
The characterisation of the Drosophila MACPF protein Torso-like
 Kathleen De Boer
Regulation of alkaloid biosynthetic genes within Nicotiana glauca
 Giorgio De Guzman
Production of vaccine plant tissue using novel species in the solanaceae family
 Sadia Deen
Plant Biotechnology and Immunology
Eduardo Flores Sandoval Eduardo Flores-Sandoval
An evolutionary developmental genetics approach to understand the emergence of major morphological traits defining embryophytes
 Cara Griffiths
Gene regulation in resurrection plants
 Takahiro Honda
Olfactory systems of insects transmit odorant information received from the environment to the brain
 Sharmin Islam
Examining regulatory genes controlling desiccation tolerance in a resurrection grass
 Edwin Lampugnani
Molecular genetics of flower development in Arabdopsis
 Huai Yian Ling
A novel hydrophilin gene for increased efficacy of plant-made vaccine
 Jess Lye
Drosophila molecular genetics: the role of zinc transporters in nervous system development
 Lee Miles
The genetics of endodermal cell movements and shape changes during vertebrate gut development
 Natalie O'Donnell
Cyanogenic processes in sorghum
 Terence (Tezz) Quon
Targets of the PETAL LOSS regulatory protein controlling sepal and petal development
 Suzanne Ryan
Pyridine alkaloid biosynthesis in Nicotiana
 Jamie Selby
Molecular genetics of extreme drought tolerance in resurrection plants
 Rob Shepherd
Optimisation of oral vaccine delivery
 Karen Yip
Relationship between patterning programs of vascular plant sporophyte and non-vascular plant gametophyte
 Christopher Zalewski
Phylogenetic and functional characterization of the Class IV HD-Zip gene family