Meet the academics and researchers in the Specifly Lab.
Specifly Lab staff
Tania Zhang
Research Assistant
Graduate researchers
Soumitra Bhide
PhD Candidate
PhD candidate who has submitted his thesis entitled: “Invasive Species Containment Through Genetic Biocontrol”
Daisy Wilson Kocher
PhD Candidate
PhD candidate who has submitted her thesis entitled: “Outpacing the Beetles: Transgenics for Combating Phosphine Resistance in Grain Pests”
Kieran McAuley
MSc(Biosciences) student
Alumni
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Year Name Role/degree Thesis title 2026 Rebecca Gledhill PhD The structural and genomic characterisation of the Ecdysteroid Kinase-Like family and their potential role in the detoxification of secondary plant metabolites. 2025 Isabelle Lohrey Research Associate 2025 Louis Nowell Nicolle MSc (BioSciences) 2025 Gemma van der Hurk MSc(BioSciences) 2024 Lauren Carey MSc(BioSciences) 2022 Natalia Hernandes Research Associate 2022 Caitlyn Perry PhD Comparative Genetics of Invertebrate Moulting 2020 Clancy Lawler MSc(BioSciences) 2020 Courtney Brown MSc(BioSciences) 2020 Jack Scanlan PhD The evolutionary and functional characterisation of the ecdysteroid kinase-like (EcKL) gene family in insects -
Year Name Role/degree Thesis title 2019 Paul Battlay PhD The quantitative genetics of insecticide resistance in Drosophila melanogaster 2019 Katrina Ware MSc(BioSciences) 2018 Amol Ghodke PhD Understanding aphids: transcriptomics, molecular evolution and pest control 2018 Sue Song PhD Population genomics and transcriptomics in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera 2017 Pontus Leblanc MSc(BioSciences) 2017 Llewellyn Green PhD The genetic basis of resistance to the Ryanodine Receptor modulator chlorantraniliprole in Drosophila melanogaster 2017 Robert Good Research Associate 2015 Alexandre Fournier-Level Post doc HFSP fellowship 2015 Angela McGaughran Post doc 2014 Joshua Schmidt PhD The genetics of DDT resistance in Drosophila melanogaster: novel insights into an old debate 2013 Lisa Bardsley PhD Pseudogenes and neutral evolution in Drosophila melanogaster 2011 David Clarke MSc(Bioinformatics) 2010 Madeleine Gane MSc(BioSciences) -
Year Name Role/degree Thesis title 2009 Wai Yee Low PhD Molecular evolution, structure and function of Glutathione S-Transferases in the genus Drosophila 2008 Alisa Sedghifar BSc (hon) 2007 Yi Wen Qian BSc (hon) 2007 Emma Warburton BSc (hon) 2007 Lydia Gramzow Diploma 2006 Sarah Berriman BSc (hon) 2006 Jin Thuan Kee Research Affiliate 2006 Wayn Wong BSc (hon) 2006 Choon Wei Wee PhD Genomics of insecticide resistance and xenobiotic metabolism in helicoverpa armigera 2005 Tamar Sztal BSc (hon) 2004 Alessandro Blasetti BSc (hon) 2003 Dan Hovan Research Affiliate 2003 Katherine Smith BSc (hon)