Contacts
Group membership
I am a Russian-American evolutionary biologist, though I have spend many years working in Japan, where I am also the head of the Ecology and Evolution Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. I am currently on a Future Fellowship at ANU.
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Synthesis Group grant, 2019
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Ignition Grant, 2019
Research interests
My major research interests include using historical material to understand how evolution takes place and how complex phenotypes evolve. I am particularly fond of social insects as models, though I have worked on a variety of systems, from fruit flies to snakes, to coral. My current research intersts focus on understanding how organisms coevolve, particularly focusing on the interaction of hosts with parasites and diseases and also with beneficial microbes.
Projects
- Principal investigator, Beating the heat? Population genomics of climate change in Australian birds
- Principal investigator, BeePocalypse Now: How the arrival of parasitic bee mites will change Australia's ecosystem and agriculture
- Principal investigator, Conservation Genetics of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect
- Principal investigator, Food matters - Studying and disentangling the interconnection of monocultures, the microbiome and honey bee health
- Principal investigator, Using computer vision and machine learning to study honey bee behavior
- Collaborator, Coral development and comparative genomics
See my Google Scholar page.
