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Evolution & Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales


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Russell Bonduriansky

Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Director of Higher Degree Research

Academic Bio   

Undergraduate Teaching           

        

Higher Degree Research Students

 

Daniela Wilner

PhD Candidate

Project: Sexual coevolution in facultatively parthenogenetic animals

Jigmidmaa Boldbaatar

PhD Candidate

Project: How do insect populations cope with environmental stresses?

Caitlin Creak

PhD Candidate

Project: Ecology and behaviour of funnel-web spiders

Wai Chi Vicky Ying

PhD Candidae

Project: Costs and benefits of sexual reproduction

Undergraduate Project

 

Shay Hirani

   Project: Sexually selected sensory structures

Adjunct Postdoctoral Fellow

Zachariah Wylde

   Website


LAB ALUMNI

Soleille Miller

PhD, 2025

Project: Genomics of facultatively parthenogenetic metapopulations

Ana Oliveira Vasconcelos

PhD, 2024

Project: Environmental effects in the evolution of developmentally plastic traits

Jigmidmaa Boldbaatar

Masters, 2022

Project: Ecology and behaviour of Australian stick insects

Zachariah Wylde

PhD, 2020

Project: Environmental effects on sperm competition and sexual signaling

Website

Erin Macartney

PhD, 2020

Masters, 2015

Project: Paternal effects as condition-dependent life history traits

Website

Nathan Burke

PhD, 2019

Honours, 2013

Project: Facultative parthenogenesis and the evolution of sex

Website

Amy Hooper

PhD, 2018

Project: The evolution of condition-dependent life history: from morphology to lifespan

Website

Ronda Lau

Masters, 2016

Project: The role of amino acids and vitamins in development

Margo Adler

PhD, 2013

Project: Making the best of what you've got: The role of trade-offs in ageing, resource allocation, and interactions of the sexes

Website

Elizabeth Cassidy

Masters, 2013

Project: Morphological variation and diversification in Australian neriid flies

Luis Cayetano

Masters, 2010

Project: Evolution of insect genitalia

Udani Chandrasoma

Masters, 2010

Joint supervisor: Rob Brooks

Project: Diet, fat accumulation and fitness in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus.

Martin O'Dwyer

Honours, 2024

Project: Effects of social interactions on ageing and lifespan

Kristin Hubakk

Honours, 2023

Project: Environmental variation and sexual competition

Wai Chi Vicky Ying

Honours 2023

Project: Chemical signaling in phasmids

Kumudika Gunaratne

Honours, 2015

Project: Winner/Loser effects on reproductive performance

Claire Santhaseelan

Honours, 2015

Project: Maternal effects in parthenogenetic chironomids

Chris Allister

Honours, 2013

Project: Dietary ecology of neriid flies

Oscar Long Lee

Honours, 2013

Project: Plasticity in bruchid beetles

Aidan Runagall-McNaull

Honours, 2013

Project: The ecology of paternal effects in neriid flies

Eleanor Bath

Honours, 2011

Project: Asymmetric reproductive isolation and interference in neriid flies: the roles of genital morphology and behaviour

Website

Alexander Sentinella

Honours, 2011

Project: Larval nutritional geometry in Telostylinus angusticollis

Hawa Othman

Honours, 2009

Project: The genetic basis of condition dependence and sexual dimorphism

Nori Kawasaki

Honours, 2006

Project: Comparison of ageing in the wild and captivity of the banana stalk fly (Telostylinus  angusticollis)

Foteini Spagopoulou

Visiting student from Uppsala University, Sweden

Teresa Maddison

Visiting student from the University of Toronto, Canada

Project: Sexual selection in neriid flies

Tsai-Ming Lu

Visiting student

Marco Telford

Visiting student

Project: Condition and somatic deterioration in flies

Judita 'Ditka' Jeran

Professional Practicum, 2009

Felix Zajitschek

Postdoctoral fellow

Current occupation: Visiting Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Website

Angela Crean

Postdoctoral/DECRA fellow

Current occupation: Social Worker

Lara Hallsson

Postdoctoral fellow

Current occupation: Senior Researcher, UMIT

Claudia Fricke

Postdoctoral fellow

Current occupation: Chair of Animal Ecology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

     
Undergraduate Research Assistants and Volunteers

Tam-Chi Tran

Harper Baldwin Young

Pearl Lei

Sarah Zeigman

Emma Dawson-Glass

Alexander Ingall

Christine Gui

Liam Shaw

Shay Hirani

Richard Benedict Jurenang

Patrick Liao

Natalie Haryanto

Jorgia Elhlou