A huge congratulations to Katherine who was last week awarded a prestigious ARC DECRA award. Its a real feather in her cap, and will allow Katherine to be funded for another 3 years to continue her work on freshwater fish genomics.
Here’s a summary for Katherine’s project:
Integrating genomics into native fish management to promote persistence. This project aims to improve predictions of the effects of environmental change on the long-term survival of wildlife, using native fish as a case study. By integrating genomics into biodiversity models, this project expects to generate fundamental knowledge of processes underpinning long-term survival and is a big advance on traditional biodiversity models that consider only occurrence or abundance. Expected outcomes include insights into fish responses to environmental conditions and new tools to predict long-term survival of wildlife. These tools will guide cost-effective delivery of environmental water in the Murray-Darling Basin, and wider uptake should promote the long-term effectiveness of conservation efforts for many species.
Molecular Biodiversity Lab 