Postgraduate Students
The Institute's higher degree research students are actively engaged in projects relevant to the current research agenda within Australia and overseas. Our cohort gain valuable experience from research-active academic staff, while contributing fresh ideas and knowledge to their chosen field.
Current Students
- Mr Kirk Barnett - Theis title - Plant-mediated effects of elevated CO2 on scarab beetle populations and consequences for plant community composition
- Ms Sarah Beck - Thesis title - The spatial ecology of below-ground fungal communities: a study of pattern and process.
- Ms Kylie Brice - Thesis title - Bugs in "Bears"- are Mismatches between Diets and Gut Microbial Communities a Bugbear for Translocated Koalas?
- Mr Courtney Campany - Predicting water-use efficiency across scales: Are responses to [CO2] similar at leaf, plant and ecosystem scales?
- Ms Aimee Bourne - Thesis title - Do species influence forest water-use in model reforestation ecosystems?
- Mr Carlo Chehine - Thesis title - Influence of environmental change and contamination of soil on vegetable growth and quality
- Mr Nicholas Colman - Thesis title: A dingo for a new age?
- Ms Federica Colombo - Thesis title - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function, Productivity and Sustainability
- Mr Honglang Duan - Thesis title - What kills plants?: a mechanistic understanding of the physiological basis for drought-induced mortality in Eucalyptus globulus.
- Ms Sarah Facey - Thesis title - Shaping up to Future Climates: How will predicted increases in atmospheric CO2 alter plant architectural effects on predator-herbivore interactions?
- Mr Benjamin Feit - Thesis title - Can Water Exclusion Limit the Ecological Impacts of Cane Toads?
- Ms Caroline Fromont - Thesis title - The role of microbial symbionts in psyllid ecology
- Mr Andrew Gherlenda - Thesis title - Effects of Elevated Atmospheric (CO2) on Insect Herbivory and its Regulation in a Eucalyptus Tereticornis Woodland
- Mr Chris Gordon - Thesis title: Do dingoes, rodents and rabbits suppress thickening of native shrubs in arid Australia?
- Mr Aidan Hall - Thesis title - Factors Regulating Population Dynamics of Eucalypt Psyllids in Australia
- Mr Guomin Huang - Thesis title - Response of Function Groups Along an Environmental Gradient to Climate Change
- Mr Ali Ijaz - Thesis title - A bioinformatics pipeline for improved analysis of shotgun metagenomic data
- Ms Kerry Keniry - Thesis title - Climate change impacts on symbiotic fungi of Australian eucalypts.
- Mr Peter Kern - Thesis title - Symbiosis and Sex Change: Reproductive Manipulations Imposed by Bacterial Endosymbionts Upon Australian Butterflies
- Mr Shiva Khanal - Thesis title - Remote sensing based approach for understanding post-fire primary production dynamics in forest ecosystem.
- Ms Catarina Martins - Thesis title - Microbial Control of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Ms Jennifer Morrow - Thesis title - Sex determination genes in Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni.
- Ms Jessica Mowle - Thesis title - Promoting Conservation and Future Regeneration of Wollemi Pine through Manipulation of Microbial Communities
- Ms Duong Thi Nguyen - Thesis title - Control of insect pests mediated by endogenous symbionts.
- Ms Linh Nguyen - Thesis title - Adaption of Cotton Farming to Climate Change
- Ms Josephine Ontedhu - Thesis title: Influence of phosphorus nutrition on eucalypt physiology and growth at future CO2 concentrations.
- Ms Harshini Pinto - Thesis title - Resource use efficiency of C4 grasses; a study of environmental conditions favouring the evolution of C4 photosynthesis.
- Ms Smriti Rayu - Thesis title - Methane Assisted Bioremediation: Evidence from Metagenomics
- Mr James Ryalls - Thesis title - Global climate change and aboveground-belowground interactions
- Mr Balasaheb Sonawane - Thesis title - Evolutionary and environmental drivers of functional diversity among C4 plants
- Ms Tracey Steinrucken - Thesis title - To determine the mechanism for dieback in the invasive tree Parkinsonia Aculeata
- Mr Timothy Sutton - Thesis title - Ecology and Evolution of Fig-Pollinator-Parasite Interactions
- Ms Aida Taghavi Bayat - Thesis title - Remote sensing of Australian forest carbon uptake in relation to temporal variation in rainfall
- Mr Cesar Terrer - Thesis title - Woody Thickening - Growth and girth in response to atmosphere and climate
Graduates
- Doctor Silvestre Aben - Thesis Title: Influence of elevated CO2 partial pressure on early growth and development of rice
- Doctor Ian Anderson - Thesis Title: Inter- and intraspecific variation in Pisolithus from central and eastern mainland Australia
- Jamie Ayton - Thesis Title: The effect of harvest timing and irrigation on the quality of olive oil
- Doctor Brigitte Bastias - Thesis title: The influence of repeated prescribed burning and forest conversion on soil fungal communities.
- Doctor Damian Bougoure - Thesis Title: Ericaceae root associated fungi revealed by culturing and culture-independent molecular methods
- Doctor Nathalie Curlevski - Thesis title: Impact of forest conversion on soil fungal communities in subtropical Australia.
- Doctor Made Ria Defiani - Thesis Title: Zinc requirements of rice at elevated CO2
- Doctor Oula Ghannoum - Thesis Title: Responses of C3 and C4 Panicum grasses to CO2 enrichment
- Doctor David Hicks - Thesis Title: Development and evaluation of a system for the study of mineral nutrition of sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)
- Doctor Catherine Hitchcock - Thesis title: Development and use of SSR markers for genetic population structure analysis of Pisolithus.
- Doctor Yan-Shih Lin - Thesis title: How will Eucalyptus tree species respond to global climate change?: CO2 responses and seasonal temperature adjustment.
- Doctor Kelvin Montagu - Thesis Title: Whole plant response to soil compaction: from field practices to mechanisms
- Doctor Gordon Rogers - Thesis Title: Influence of N and P nutrition on the responses of wheat and cotton to elevated CO2
- Doctor Silvia Rudman - Thesis Title Resource utilization of C4 tropical grasses at elevated CO2
- Doctor Saman Seneweera - Thesis Title: Influence of high CO2 on growth and development of rice

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