Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics

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We are a new research group, interested in applying cutting-edge tools in genomics and bioinformatics to fundamental questions in evolutionary biology.

Check out our main lab site (joint with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Ecology and Evolution Unit).

Evolutionary genetics and genomics

Group Leader

Alexander Mikheyev

Research Officer

Ashutosh Das

PhD Students

Honours Student

Claire Howard-Bryan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Juan Lobaton

PhB Students

Project	Status
Beating the heat? Population genomics of climate change in Australian birds	Current
Conservation Genetics of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect	Current
Do repetitive elements contribute to variation in chromosome structure between populations?	Current
Domestic applicants for PhDs in Ecology & Evolution	Current
Food matters - Studying and disentangling the interconnection of monocultures, the microbiome and honey bee health	Current
Hangry? Examining the link between metabolism, aggression and social behaviour	Current
Using approximate Bayesian computation to infer ancestral population size of pre-Columbian North American human populations	Current
Using computer vision and machine learning to study honey bee behavior	Current
Wolbachia infection of honey bee parasites	Current

You can see our publications Google Scholar.

At the origin of a global invasion: the honey bee parasite Varroa that keeps on jumping

Event | Tue 26 February 2019

Varroa mites are ectoparasites infesting honeybee colonies and originally found only in Asia.

Summer Research Scholar Peiyu Yuan asks "What happened to the Rocky Mountain locust?"

Story | Tuesday 7 May 2019

We may be in the middle of an insect mass extinction. The once abundant Rocky Mountain locust was last seen in 1902. Under the Mikheyev Group, Peiyu Yuan used data from a related extant locust species and comparative genomics to identify artifacts in museum data of the Rocky Mountain locust.