Projects

Project Research theme Group
Acacia evolution: why do some species evolve faster than others?
    Ascochyta blight of chickpea
      Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF, ARC LIEF project)
        Australian native truffle diversity
          Bioinformatic / Computational methods
            Comparative genomics and development of corals
              Coral development and comparative genomics
                Development of the coral nervous system and its role in metamorphosis
                  Domestic applicants for PhDs in Ecology & Evolution
                    Domesticating Australian native bees for use as alternative pollinators
                      Ecological, social and food-security dimensions of Timor-Leste fisheries
                      Ecology of the Silky Hairstreak butterfly and its attendant ant, a potential indicator of old growth forest
                        Environmental risk assessment of genetically modified Alfalfa mosaic virus resistant white clover (Trifolium repens L.)
                          Evolution of scald and net form of net blotch
                            Evolution of Varroa tolerance in feral honey bees
                              Evolutionary biology of Australian reptiles and amphibians
                                Evolutionary causes and ecological consequences of ageing in superb fairy-wrens (current PhD)
                                  Factors affecting Perigord truffle production in Australia
                                    Fungal bioinformatics
                                      Investigating adaptive genomic variation underlying drought tolerance in Eucalyptus
                                        Metagenomics and the analysis of microbial genomes
                                          Molecular evolution and Phylogenetics
                                            Organic components of the coral skeleton
                                              PhD Scholarship top-up opportunity: Enhancing climate-resilience of ecological restoration
                                                Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of Australian plants
                                                  Postgraduate projects with research support: Drivers of climate change responses in the Australian Alps
                                                    Rate of contemporary adaptation in wild vertebrates
                                                      Re-assembly of biological communities during the Cenozoic
                                                        Speciation in co-evolved taxa: sexually-deceptive orchids and their mycorrhizal symbionts
                                                          Spread of innovation in urban sulphur-crested cockatoos
                                                            Statistical methods of sequence divergence
                                                              Students opportunities in Sequeira Group
                                                                Transcriptome and genome sequencing of the coral, Acropora millepora
                                                                  Wild eco-evolutionary dynamics: why is an iconic Australian bird declining? (ARC Discovery 2019-2023))