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Summer Research Studentship Program

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Fungal pathogen trials on Cakile maritima undertaken as a Summer Research Studentship.

The Centre’s Summer Research Studentship program has continued to prove both popular and extremely successful. The program aims to encourage continued involvement of young people in science, provide opportunities for ‘on-the-job’ experience and raise the profile of the Centre as a potential place for postgraduate studies. A modest stipend is provided from Centre funds or external sources. Although the completion of a publishable piece of work is not the aim of this program, since its inception students have been involved in the authorship of several scientific manuscripts.

Summer Studentship project reports.

 

2014 Report

The Studentships for 2013-14 were:

Student

Topic

Supervisor

Christiana McDonald-Spicer

How do plant populations connect?

Francisco Encinas Viso

Emily Prentice

Biogeography of the Banksia family (Proteaceae).

Joe Miller & Nunzio Knerr

Kiarrah Smith

Evolution of the paper daisy genus Leucochrysum (Asteraceae)

Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn

Studentships since 2001 are listed below.

Year

Student

Topic

Supervisor

2001-02

Danielle Medek

Asterella drummondii complex in New South Wales: How many species?

Christine Cargill

Alison Skinner

The effects of tree isolation on the genetic diversity and seed production of Camden White Gum (Eucalyptus benthamii Maiden et Cambage)

C. Gardiner &
P. Butcher

Alex Roberts

Australian Teucrium L. and its world context

Rogier de Kok

Radhika Murti

Variation in root set on selected Eucalyptus grandis cuttings

C. Harwood

Luke Barrett

Variation in growth and spore production in the fungal pathogen Alternaria brassicicola

Peter Thrall

2002-03

Nicole Vella

The hornwort genus Megaceros: the Australian connection

Christine Cargill

Rosemary Golding

Ecological risk assessment of transgenic virus-resistant White Clover

Bob Godfree &
Andrew Young

Amy Davidson

Native Fusarium and cotton in Australia

Augusto Becerra &
Bo Wang

Pierre-Ulric Achour

Phylogeny in the Red Ironbarks (Eucalyptus series Siderophloiae)

M. McDonald

2003-04

Lyndsey Vivian

Patterns of Weed Invasion in Subalpine Vegetation and the Role of Trifolium repens (White Clover)

Bob Godfree

 

William Murray

Exploring the ecological implications of insect body size

Saul Cunningham (CSIRO Entomology)

 

Emma Crewdson

Conservation of Australian Orchids by Seed Propagation

Mark Clements

 

Samantha Citroen

Fern Distribution and Diversity in Australia

Sophie Bickford

 

Sara Rich

Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian citrus: the Citreae tribe in a world context

Randy Bayer

2004-05

Nathan Potter

Evaluation of inoculation methods to determine disease response of cultivated and native cultivars to Fusarium oxysorum f. sp. Vasinfectum

Augusto Becerra & Curt Brubaker

 

Tristan Reekie

Evolutionary Relationships among Rust Fungi in the Genus Melampsora

Marlien Van Der Merwe

 

Susan Brandner

An assessment of the fungal specificity of the orchid sub-tribe Pterostylis

Tupac Otero

2006-07

Melita Baum

The biodiversity and evolutionary relationships of the Australian members of the liverwort genus Fossombronia through molecular sequences

Christine Cargill

2008-09

Aiden Varan

Does genetic delineation exist between Eastern Australian Helmet orchids?

Mark Clements

 

Steve Chivers

Population genetics of the invasive honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) using AFLP’s: A comparison between native and invasive ranges.

Joe Miller &
Andy Schnabel

2009-10

Kirstin Proft

Genetics of the invasive weeds bitou bush and boneseed

Richard Watts

2010-11

Catherine Ross

Evolution of polyploidy in Acacia: Is polyploidy correlated with the expansion of Acacia lineages into arid Australia?

Joe Miller

 

Lisa Stephenson

Mapping and analysis of endemism of the Australian bryophyte flora

Nunzio Knerr & Christine Cargill

2011-12

Abigail Greenfield

Phylogenetic delineation of a species complex within a widespread Australian thalloid liverwort Asterella drummondii

Christine Cargill

 

Lee Constable

Molecular phylogeny of Australian Ozothamnus (Asteraceae) and relatives.

Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn

2012-13

Kirsty Milner

Species boundaries in the billy buttons (Craspedia, Asteraceae)

Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn

Staff

Staff supervising Summer Studentships are listed in the fourth column above.

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