First eDNA sampling pilot!
Thais, PhD candidate in our Frog Research Team ran her first official pilot survey for her PhD project in the last couple of days! Here...
Promoted to Research Fellow Grade 2!
The outcomes of the annual promotion round at Griffith University were announced today, and I've been promoted to Research Fellow Grade 2...
Funded! "Investigation of immune gene expression in chytridiomycosis"
I am thrilled to have just been awarded $9,900 through the competitive Environmental Futures Research Institute Strategic Leverage Fund...
#ESAus18 conference
I recently attended the Ecological Society of Australia's annual conference held at the Royal International Convention Centre in Brisbane...
Pilot site visits in Lamington National Park!
Sometimes on fieldwork you just have to visit stunningly beautiful places... (and sometimes the road is so eroded that your car won't...
Chytridiomycosis immunity review now published!
I've just published an up-to-date comprehensive review and synthesis of the amphibian immune response to chytridiomycosis in the...
Funded! "Amphibians of the World Heritage-listed Gondwana Rainforests: Distribution, habitat us
I'm part of a team (including Guy Castley, Hamish McCallum, Harry Hines, myself, Thais Sasso Lopes and Dave Newell) to have just been...
Presenting my research at the Amphibian Disease Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona!
I was recently awarded a 2018 Griffith Sciences Early Career Researcher Travel Grant ($3000) to attend the Amphibian Disease Meeting in...
Froggie adventures!
Another exciting froggie adventure for the frog team - this time we braved a night of pouring rain at Border Ranges National Park...
First frogs of the season!
Over the last few nights our amphibian chytridiomycosis team (Dr. David Newell, Prof. Hamish McCallum, Thais Sasso Lopes and myself) went...