Eco-evolutionary biology and conservation genomics

PhD Candidate, Australian National University

Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours - Class I), University of Queensland

My research interests primarily lie in the application of population and quantitative genomic approaches to understanding the eco-evolutionary biology of wild populations, particularly in conservation or applied contexts.

My PhD research is currently focused on the genomics of inbreeding depression and population decline in a long-term study of superb fairy-wrens, Malurus cyaneus. In the thirty years since the study was first founded, the population has nearly halved, alongside a decline in the number of breeding pairs. I will be testing several explanations for the decline, including inbreeding depression, parasitism and various eco-evolutionary dynamics.

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