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Russell Bonduriansky - Principal Investigator
● Evolutionary theory ● Phenotypic plasticity ● Non-mendelian and nongenetic inheritance ● Sexual selection and conflict ● Ageing |
Interested in PhD/Masters/Honours?
See the list of potential projects A PhD scholarship is currently available. |
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Lab News ● Angela Crean is a finalist in Fresh Science 2013.
● Congratulations to Ange on her wedding!
● Congratulations to Margo Adler on winning the Outstanding Evolution and Ecology Thesis of 2012 award and the Crispin Rice Prize for Outreach and Communication in Evolution and Ecology! Margo received her awards at the Evolution & Ecology Research Centre awards ceremony on Friday, 8th of March.
● Welcome to new students Chris Allister, Nathan Burke, Oscar Lee, Erin Macartney and Aidan Runagall-McNaull.
● Congratulations to Elizabeth Cassidy on submission of her Masters thesis, and her excellent Exit Seminar
● Congratulations to Margo Adler on submission of her PhD thesis, and her highly successful Exit Seminar
● Russell has received an ARC Future Fellowship for 2012-2016
● Elizabeth Cassidy and Russell gave talks at the First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Ottawa (July 6-11, 2012)
● Russell attended a meeting on the evolution of genomic imprinting at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, USA
● Angela Crean has received an ARC DECRA fellowship and grant for 2012-14
● Eleanor Bath won the 2012 Rhodes Scholarship for PhD studies at Oxford University
● Margo Adler won the Best Talk award at a recent Postgraduate Research Forum
● Elizabeth Cassidy gave a talk at the 2011 meeting of the Australasian Evolution Society in Townsville |
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Study Organisms (Click on the photos for information, pictures and videos) Telostylinus angusticollis and T. lineolatus are large, stilt-legged flies that breed in rotting vegetation. These species exhibit pronounced sexual dimorphism in body size and shape. |
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● Piophilid flies Piophilidae are small carrion flies, most famously represented by the 'cheese skipper' Piophila casei. One very peculiar species, the 'antler fly' Protopiophila litigata, which is native to Canada, is remarkable for its specialization on discarded cervid antlers, and has become a key model for research on ageing in wild insects. |
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Another interesting species, Prochyliza xanthostoma, exhibits pronounced sexual dimorphism in body shape, and fascinating sexual behaviours. |
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● Drosophila We also work with Drosophila from time to time.
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● Bruchid beetles We use the tiny grain beetle Callosobruchus maculatus in research on genetics and genital evolution. The photo on the right shows the spines inside the male aedeagus, which are everted during mating (Photo: Luis Cayetano).
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● Crickets We have used the Australian black field cricket Teleogryllus commodus to investigate differences between the sexes in the effects of dietary nutrients and in reproductive scheduling, lifespan and ageing in lab and field (Photo: Felix Zajitschek).
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