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Head of Applied BioSciences



Our researchers

Areas of expertise:

  • Sustainable insect pest management
  • Fruit fly biology and management
  • Sterile Insect Technique

Areas of expertise:

  • Natural product synthesis
  • Medicinal chemistry
  • Reaction mechanism exploration and method development

Areas of expertise:

  • Molecular ecology
  • Genotype-phenotype linkage
  • Pest Genomics

Areas of expertise:

  • Molecular biology
  • Genetic engineering
  • Insect husbandry
  • Bioinformatics

Areas of expertise:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genome Engineering
  • Insect Virology and Ecology
  • Biosecurity

Areas of expertise:

  • Insect ecology
  • Biological control
  • Sustainable pest management

Areas of expertise:

  • Biosecurity
  • Integrated pest management

Areas of expertise:

  • Insect colony maintenance
  • Research support

Areas of expertise:

  • Biological control
  • integrated pest management
  • Plant-insect-microbe- interactions
  • Microbiology

Areas of expertise:

  • Climate change and food security
  • Pests and diseases of food crops
  • Vector biology and ecology 
  • Plant virology

Areas of expertise:

  • Population and conservation genomics
  • Evolutionary ecology
  • Plant adaptation
  • Plant-pollinator interactions

Areas of expertise:

  • Molecular ecology
  • Population and adaptive genomics
  • Adaptive capacity

Areas of expertise:

  • Genotype-Phenotype map
  • Genetics of adaptation
  • Population genomics
  • Ecological genetics

Areas of expertise:

  • Invasive species
  • Structural variants
  • Population and evolutionary genomics
  • Genome assembly

Areas of expertise:

  • Molecular ecology
  • Coral microbiomes
  • Coral thermal resilience

Areas of expertise:

  • Structural bioinformatics
  • Machine learning
  • Data analysis and visualisation

Areas of expertise:

  • Behavioural biology
  • Insect cuticular chemistry
  • Semiochemical-based pest management

Areas of expertise:

  • Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM)
  • Insect spatial ecology
  • Insect chemical ecology

Areas of expertise:

  • Behavioural biology
  • Insect-plant interactions
  • Insect chemical ecology

Areas of expertise:

  • Chemistry technical services
  • Research support

Areas of expertise:

  • Synthetic chemistry
  • Analytical chemistry
  • Semiochemical-based pest management

Areas of expertise:

  • Synthetic chemistry
  • Analytical chemistry

Areas of expertise:

  • Biological control
  • Insect chemical ecology
  • BiosecurityHoneybee and pollination ecology

Areas of expertise:

  • Natural products chemistry
  • Chemical ecology
  • Applied fluorescence
  • Chemical biology

Areas of expertise:

  • Electrochemical sensing
  • Analytical chemistry
  • Chemometrics

Areas of expertise:

  • Electrochemical sensing
  • Catalysis
  • Electrosynthesis

Areas of expertise:

  • Synthetic biology
  • Bioremediation
  • Sustainable waste management
  • Insect biomanufacturing
  • Genetic biocontrol

Areas of expertise:

  • Invertebrate genetic biocontrol
  • Sustainable waste management
  • Insect synthetic biology

Areas of expertise:

  • Disease Ecology
  • Conservation
  • Synthetic Biology

Areas of expertise:

  • Insect Pest Management
  • Insect ecology
  • Insect mating systems
  • Genetic improvement methods

Areas of expertise:

  • Animal genome engineering
  • Animal genetic biocontrol
  • Synthetic biology

Areas of expertise:

  • Developmental genetics
  • Bioremediation
  • Genetic engineering

Areas of expertise:

  • Synthetic biology
  • Bioremediation
  • Sustainable waste-management
  • Sustainable biomanufacturing

Biosecurity and sustainable pest management

Dr Solomon Balagawi
NSW DPI
Research Office
E: solomon.balagawi@dpi.nsw.gov.au

Dr Peter Brown
CSIRO
Principal Research Scientist
E: peter.brown@csiro.au

Dr Toni Chapman
NSW DPI
Senior Research Scientist
E: toni.chapman@dpi.nsw.gov.au

Dr Jenny Ekman
Applied Horticultural Research
Research Scientist
E: jenny.ekman@ahr.com.au

Dr Bernard Dominiak
NSW DPI
Scientific Publications Coach
E: bernie.dominiak@dpi.nsw.gov.au

Dr Katharina Merkel
SARDI
Fruit Fly Entomologist
E: katharina.merkel@sa.gov.au

Prof. Max Suckling
NZ Institute for Plant and Food Research
Science Group Leader
E: max.suckling@plantfood.co.nz

Mr Tek Tay
CSIRO
Senior Research Scientist
E: weetek.tay@csiro.au

Dr Maarten Van Helden
SARDI
Senior Researcher
E: maarten.vanhelden@sa.gov.au

Dr Darren Kriticos
Cervantes Agritech
Co-founder and Managing Director
E: darren@cervantesagritech.com

Dr Tania Yonow
Cervantes Agritech
E: tania@cervantesagritech.com

Genomic biotechnology and genetic biocontrol

Dr Owain Edwards
CSIRO
Group Leader
Environmental & Synthetic Genomics
E: owain.edwards@csiro.au

Dr Phil Cleves
Carnegie Institute of Science
Principal Investigator
Department of Embryology
E: cleves@carnegiescience.edu

Bioinformatics 


Dr Denis Bauer
CSIRO
Group Leader,
E: denis.bauer@csiro.au

Mr Yatish Jain
CSIRO
Bioformatics IT Advisor
E: yatish.jain@CSIRO.au

Dr Rahul Rane
CSIRO
Postdoctoral Fellow
E: rahul.rane@csiro.au

Dr Daniel Reti
CSIRO
Research Officer
E: daniel.reti@csiro.au

Dr Natalie Twine
CSIRO
Team Lead
Genome Insights team
E: natalie.twine@csiro.au

Dr Lawrence Wilson
CSIRO
Group Leader
Digital Genome Engineering team
E: lawrence.wilson@csiro.au

Dr Arash Bayat
CSIRO
E: arash.bayat@csiro.au

Applied molecular genetics

Dr John Oakeshott
CSIRO
Chief Research Scientist
E: john.oakeshott@csiro.au

Dr Tanya Strive
CSIRO
Principle Research Scientist, Group Leader
E:tanja.strive@csiro.au

Applied chemical ecology 

Dr Gunjan Pandey
CSIRO
Senior Research Scientist
E: gunjan.pandey@csiro.au

Dr. Md. Hafiz All Amin
Department of Agroforestry and Environment at the Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University in Bangladesh
Researcher
E: mdhafiz.allamin@mq.edu.au