People
Dr. Keyne Monro
Group leader
Keyne is in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University. She is interested in evolution and adaptation in changing environments.
Beau Shrimpton
PhD student
Beau studies mitochondrial thermal adaptation and its role in speciation. His current project investigates how differences in temperature can drive divergent evolution in mitochondrial genomes, and how this process forms reproductive barriers.
Emily Fu
PhD Student
Emily is interested in parental effects and the impacts of thermal extremes on marine invertebrates. As the frequency of extreme warming events are increasing alongside increases in mean temperature, her project investigates the impacts of thermal extremes across generations and early life-history stages.
Emily Belcher
PhD Student
Emily is interested in how embryos develop at different temperatures. With the increasing threat of global warming, she is studying how gene expression varies in embryos developing in current and projected thermal conditions, and how expression might maintain robust morphological phenotypes throughout development.
Monique Van Dorssen
PhD student
Monique studies the genomic basis of climate adaptation and species divergence in our rapidly changing coastal environments, using two sister species: the intertidal tubeworms Galeolaria caespitosa and Galeolaria gemineoa. She is interested in the mechanisms and processes that allow for rapid evolutionary adaptation, as well as those involved in parallel evolution and the maintenance of species barriers in closely related species.
Matt Elmer
PhD student
(main supervisor: Dr Vanessa Kellermann, La Trobe University)
The influence of climate on the distribution, evolution and extinction risk of Australian native bees.
Saila Kabir
PhD student
(main supervisor: A/Prof. Kay Hodgins)
Identifying and predicting the genetics of adaptation in response to climate change.
Lab Alumni
Dr Cristóbal Gallegos Sánchez
PhD 2022
Evolutionary adaptation and species barriers under climate change
Dr Adriana Rebolledo
PhD 2022
Effects of life stage and thermal history on thermal performance in early life
Dr Sergio Nolazco Plasier
PhD 2021
Why are females ornamented? A meta-analysis and case study
Danyal Punjwani
Honours 2021
Effects of nutrition on thermal performance in early life
Dr Akane Uesugi
ARC DECRA Fellow 2018-2020 (now at RMIT)
Evolution of chemical warfare in invasive plants
Dr Jessica Hoskins
PhD 2020
Size and temperature effects on physiological traits in arthropods
Dr Louise Noergaard
PhD 2019
Understanding the evolution of infectious disease at the invasion front
Dr Hayley Cameron
PhD 2019
The eco-evolutionary dynamics of maternal provisioning
Dr Evatt Chirgwin
PhD 2019
Evolutionary consequences of fertilisation and early development in warming seas
Emily Belcher
Honours 2019
Embryogenesis in a changing environment: How does temperature alter development?
Laura Rigby
Honours 2019
Genetically-based differentiation of native and invasive populations of tall goldenrod
Lachlan King
Honours 2019
Effects of genetic drift on additive genetic variance can promote rapid adaptation to changing environments
Dr Karin Svanfeldt
PhD 2017
Resource acquisition and allocation in a colonial marine invertebrate
Dr Arthur Riedel
PhD 2013
Community genetics in the sea: evolutionary and ecological consequences of interspecific indirect genetic effects