Trilogy Lab
tri-kingdom eco-evo
Meet some of my collaborators
Dr Manu Saunders
Ecosystem services, entomology, agriculture, science communication, citizen science, insect community ecology, trapping methods, network analysis. Also, co-founder of Australian Wild Pollinator Count.
Prof. Dezene Huber
Entomology, functional genetics, biodiversity, aquatic systems, genomics, chemical ecology.
Asst. Prof. Jill Hamilton
Phenology, functional genomics, forest genetics, quantitative genetics, environmental data, climate change, spruce, and prairie smoke.
Asst. Prof. Catherine Cullingham
Phylogeography, population genetics, landscape ecology, distribution modelling, geographic information systems, wildlife management, conservation, disease spread, and dynamics of invasive-pest outbreaks.
Assoc. Prof. Patrick James
Spatial ecology, temporal heterogeneity, ecological and evolutionary processes, forest landscape structure, spatial population dynamics, landscape connectivity, gene flow, forest fire, insect outbreaks, and forest management.
Dr Rose Andrew (Senior Lecturer)
Landscape genetics, sunflowers, molecular ecology, speciation, hybridisation, eucalypts, feral cats, chemical ecology, adaptation, population genetics, genomics, and orchids.
Prof. Justin Borevitz
Phenotyping, landscape genomics, climate adaptation, selection, Arabadopsis, GWAS, photosynthesis, reproduction, NGS, and eucalypts.
Dr James Worth
Conservation, biodiversity, ecosystem function, habitat loss, climate change, environmental change, forest biomes, genetics, ecology, paleobotany, and species distribution modelling.
Prof. Jamieson Gorrell
Mark-recapture population size estimation, effective population size, genetic diversity, relatedness, inbreeding, parentage, adoption, pedigree reconstruction, reproductive success and fitness, population structure, population assignment, migration, isolation by distance, landscape genetics, barriers to movement, phylogeography, phylogenetics.
Prof. Felix Sperling
Evolution, insect lineages, species boundaries, arthropod biodiversity, taxonomy, DNA sequences, morphological data, phylogenetic analysis, keys and databases, plant-insect coevolution, biogeography, genomic architecture, conservation, agriculture, and forestry.
Prof. René Vaillancourt
Population and conservation genetics of plants, genomics, eucalypts, natural history, genome structures, forest trees, eucalypts, molecular tools, evolution, phylogeny, and phylogeography.
Prof. Mark Hovenden
Growth and survival of mangroves, Australian Antarctic Division, terrestrial lichen communities, eucalypts, changing global conditions, ecosystems, native grassland, soil communties, ecophysiology, water potential, PAM, biodiversity, TasFACE, biomass, Themeda, and phenology.
Dr Yui Osanai
Climate change, cotton production, soil microbial function, nutrient cycling, native grassland, plant-microbe interactions, nitrogen cycling, and decomposition processes.
Dr Dorothy Steane (Senior Lecturer)
Population genetics, phylogeny, evolution, adaptation, biogeography, Eucalyptus, taxonomy, Casarinaceae, Clerodendrum (Lamiaceae), Dracophyllum (Ericaceae), Correa (Rutaceae), and Pterostylis (Orchidaceae).