MONASH UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

E-NEWS
January 2020

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Welcome New Staff, Students and Visitors

Staff
Agnee Amarnath, Teaching Technical Coordinator
Avinash Gaikwad, Postdoc with Professor Moira O’Bryan
Ben Seyer, Assistant Lecturer
Evany Dinakis, Research Assistant with Dr Francine Marques
Jade Kannangara, Research Assistant with Dr Christen Mirth
Kelly Merrin, Assistant Lecturer
Michelle Meilak, joining the School’s Infrastructure Team
Rachel Mason, Research Assistant with Professor Bob Wong

Visitors
Amanda Dias, Visiting Student with Dr Carly Cook

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

Congratulations to the following:

A/Professor Robert Bryson-Richardson, Generation and Characterisation of a Collagen VI Muscular Dystrophy

Zebrafish Model for Drug Screening, The Orphan Disease Center, USD $91,176, 1/02/20 - 31/01/21.

Dr Steve Quenette and Dr Rohan Clarke, awarded $855,000 from the Australian Research Data Commons Platform
Investment to 'Establish Australia’s Scalable Drone Cloud'. Total leveraged funding $1.7 million.

Professor Melodie McGeoch, & Belmaker, J., AFTAM: Robust tools to quantify and understand global trends in alien
species numbers, Australian Friends of Tel Aviv University: AUD10,740.00, 1/02/20-31/12/20.

School News

In the News

Dr Carly Cook - Biodiversity in Australia: Protecting our protected areas Monash Lens (19/12/2019)

Catherine Cavallo (supervisor A/Professor Richard Reina) - Penguins, poo and the surprising 'junk food' discovery in
their diet Monash Lens (26/11/2019)

Dr Jeremy Barr - As antibiotic resistance threatens millions of lives, is phage therapy the best alternative? The Sydney
Morning Herald (18/1/2020)

Dr Jeremy Barr - Phage Therapy may be the way forward as a way of combating bacteria that is now becoming
resistant to antibiotics ABC Nightlife (26/1/2020)

See the latest Monash Lens, Science news, School news, Twitter and Facebook

Honours and PhD News

Congratulations to Dr Nicki Teunissen (and main supervisor: A/Professor Anne Peters) on the Doctoral of Philosophy
Award titled: “Benefits of group living and helping behaviour in the cooperatively breeding purple-crowned fairy-wren,
Malurus coronatus”.

Congratulations to Dr Jake Martin (and main supervisor: Professor Bob Wong) on the Doctoral of Philosophy Award
titled: "Antidepressants in the water: Impacts of the psychoactive pollutant Fluoxetine on behaviour and reproduction in
fish, makes a distinct and significant contribution to knowledge".

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Publications

The following publication list has been obtained from Google Scholar.
See all School publications.

Is your Monash researcher profile missing publications? If so, please email the Research Publication Coordinators adm-
pubcoord@monash.edu and include a link to the published item.

BAG3P215L/KO mice as a model of BAG3P209L myofibrillar myopathy - R Robertson, TC Conte, MJ Dicaire, VV

Rymar, RJ Bryson-Richardson, et al - The American Journal of Pathology, 2020
Combining correlative and mechanistic niche models with human activity data to elucidate the invasive potential of a
sub‐Antarctic insect - LR Pertierra, JC Bartlett, GA Duffy, GC Vega, et al - Journal of Biogeography
Effects of Temperature on The UV‐B Sensitivity of Toxic Cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa CS558 and Anabaena
circinalis CS537 - MA Islam, J Beardall - Photochemistry and Photobiology
High spatial turnover in springtails of the Cape Floristic Region - C Janion‐Scheepers, J Bengtsson, GA Duffy, L
Deharveng, HP Leinaas, SL Chown - Journal of Biogeography
IBD Genomic Risk Loci and Overlap with Other Inflammatory Diseases - F Hadizadeh, CW Lees, C Labbé, JD Rioux,
M Parkes, A Zhernakova, A Franke, C Hedin, M D’Amato - Molecular Genetics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease 2019
Metal Pollution in Water: Toxicity, Tolerance and Use of Algae as a Potential Remediation Solution - R Pistocchi, LTH
Dao, P Mikulic, J Beardall - Grand Challenges in Algae Biotechnology, 2019
Molecular Genetics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease - C Hedin, JD Rioux, M D'Amato, Springer 2019
Risk aversion and uncertainty create a conundrum for planning recovery of a critically endangered species - S Canessa, G
Taylor, RH Clarke, D Ingwersen, J Vandersteen, JG Ewen - Conservation Science and Practice, 2019
Sex-dependent personality in two invasive species of mosquitofish - M Michelangeli, J Cote, DG Chapple, A Sih, T
Brodin, S Fogarty, MG Bertram, J Eades, BBM Wong - Biological Invasions
Springtail phylogeography highlights biosecurity risks of repeated invasions and intraregional transfers among remote
islands - HP Baird, KL Moon, C Janion‐Scheepers, SL Chown - Evolutionary Applications

Useful Links

Mental Health and Wellbeing

If you, or someone you know, is experiencing mental health issues, you can get help by calling the Safer Communities
Unit, 9905 1599 (9am-5pm: Mon-Fri).
For immediate help: On-campus security 9905 5333 Monash phone: 333
For information and resources visit the Safer Community Unit.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
School Seminars
Early Career Researchers - to join the Faculty of Science ECR mailing list please email:sci-research@monash.edu
School Intranet – for staff and students: The School’s Code of Conduct, Online Request Forms, School Facilities, Safety
Information, Compliance and HR Support.

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