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:

  • Ms Sarah Beck - Thesis title: The spatial ecology of below-ground fungal communities: a study of pattern and process.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Mr Benjamin Feit - Thesis title - Can Water Exclusion Limit the Ecological Impacts of Cane Toads?
  • 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
  • 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 Jennifer Morrow - Thesis title: Sex determination genes in Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni.
  • Ms Duong Thi Nguyen - Thesis title: Control of insect pests mediated by endogenous symbionts.
  • 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 Timothy Sutton - Thesis title - Ecology and Evolution of Fig-Pollinator-Parasite Interactions

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 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
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