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 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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