- Uncovering cryptic genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana
- Genetic basis of temperature responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
- Evolution and distribution of malaria transmitting mosquitoes (Anopheles species) in the Southwest Pacific region
- Evolution and distribution of arbovirus transmitting mosquitoes (Culex and Aedes species) in Australasia
- Evolution of multigene f
- Missing data in phylogenetic comparative studies
- Variance estimators for phylogenetic GEE models
- Stochastic processes as models of evolution using the Itô calculus
- Statistical evidence in evolutionary biology
- Other projects involving statistics with applications in evolutionary biology
- Sexual selection and the lek paradox
- Evolution of mate recognition
- Population genomics of rainforest Drosophila
- Problems with sex: genomic solutions to intralocus sexual conflict
- Sex-biased gene expression in Drosophila
- Finding genes that affect sexual behaviour
- Why do males care who they mate with?
- Geographical divergence in mating preferences in wild populations of Drosophila
- Testing evolutionary theory using experimental evolution
- Chromosome evolution in scale insects
- Population structure and dynamics of wind-dispersed insects
- Phylogeny and evolution of the bottle-bushes (Melaleuca)
- Phylogeny and evolution of tea-trees (Leptospermum)
- Coevolution of endosymbionts and scale insects
- Understanding the evolutionary origin of animal multicellularity through the study of the sponge genome and development
- How to make a sea shell: molecular genetic basis of patterning and biofabrication of molluscan and other animal skeletons
- How marine invertebrate larvae sense and respond to their environment: molecules to populations to ecology (with Dr S. Degnan and A/Prof G. Skilleter)
- The role of the innate immune system in marine invertebrate larval settlement
- Environmental genomics of native versus invasive seasquirt populations
- Molecular genetic basis of longevity
- Stress resistance genetics and mitochondrial function/dysfunction
- Toxicology and genetics of pesticide resistance in insect pests of stored grain
- *Functional genomics and biotechnology
- *Biomedicine – ageing and oxidative stress
- *Agriculture – pest resistance genetics
- Mechanisms of sperm competition in Antechinus (Semester 2 start only)
- Human Gene Expression Variation
- Interactions between coral reef larval fish and parasites
- Can inactivated virus particles protect Drosophila from virus induced mortality?
- Molecular mechanisms of prawn responses to virus infection
- Induction of host immune responses by Drosophila C virus
- Local adaption in the sea and the evolution of stress resistance
- Phenotypic plasticity in marine organisms: can males produce pollution-resistant sperm?
- Genome evolution of symbionts
- Evolution of insect immunity
- Symbiont induced changes in mosquito behaviour
- Development of a new approach to control lymphatic filariasis in the South Pacific through manipulation of mosquito longevity
- Comparative genomics of Wolbachia endosymbionts of insects: understanding the molecular basis of symbiosis
- The role of sexual selection in driving reproductive isolation in plants
- The genetic basis of conspecific pollen precedence
- Tempo and mode of speciation in daisies
- Testing the ecological speciation hypothesis in daisies
- Molecular mechanisms controlling hybrid fitness
- Are rates of molecular evolution higher in plant reproduction related genes than in other plant genes?
- Adaptive polymorphism of marine invertebrate fertilisation genes
- Hybridisation and gene flow between invasive and native mussels
- Evolution of Australian sauropod dinosaurs
- Evolution of Australian ornithopod dinosaurs
- Evolution of Australian crocodilians
- Freshwater fishes from the mid-Cretaceous Winton Formation of central-western Queensland
- Bone histology in fossil archosaurs
- *The bracing system of ankylosaurian dinosaurs
- *The bracing system of basal ornithopod dinosaurs
- *Taphonomy of a dinosaur bone bed in the Winton Formation
- Evolution and genetics of sugarcane adn ancestral species in context of nutrient and water use
* Reseach projects for Phd/MPhil students only