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GeneCology Research Group
GeneCology forms an umbrella for research in the areas of Genetics, Ecology, and Physiology within terrestrial and marine environments, and the interaction between these disciplines.
GeneCology researchers have deep interests in individual species biology and ecology, ecological communities and habitats as well as production systems and their environment.
Research covers a range of topics including:
- sustainable production systems in aquaculture, forestry and horticulture
- reproductive biology and physiology of plants and animals
- genetics and genomics of commercially important traits in aquaculture, forestry and horticulture
- evolution and function of mitochondrial genomes
- environmental and medical microbiology, enzymology, virology, parasitology
- molecular biology, molecular biotechnology and molecular engineering
- organic and carbohydrate chemistry, biochemistry, biomineralisation
- plant biotechnology, micropropagation, forest entomology
- conservation genetics of threatened species and restoration genetics
- integration of population ecology and genetics for threatened species recovery and restoration, translocation habitat and population modelling
- effects of climate change on species distributions, reproduction, population growth and genetics
- biodiversity of ecological communities including the integration of genetics and community ecology, restoration and conservation management and planning
- ecotoxicology and bioinformatics
- microbial communities, their roles and mechanism of action in biomedical and agricultural contexts
- engineering of molecular devices for therapeutic and diagnostic use
- biodiscovery, the search for novel compounds
Key research areas
- Aquaculture
- Forestry and Horticulture
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Microbiology
- Chemistry
- Ecology and conservation
- Biodiscovery
- Computational Biology and Genetics
- Molecular Engineering
Members
Refer to the current list of GeneCology members.
For more information
Contact Professor Abigail Elizur.
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