Macquarie University
NSW 2109 Australia
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