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The McDonald Lab
Laboratory for Microbial Experimental Evolution @ Monash University
Dr. Aysha Sezmis
NHMRC Research Fellow
MACSYS Research Fellow
Dr. Rebecca Gorrell
2010 - present
Chris Blake
Ph. D Candidate
Chris' Ph.D. focuses on evolutionary dynamics in microorganisms, specifically how coevolution with other species impacts adaptation dynamics.
Storme de Scally
Ph. D Candidate
Storme's Ph. D is focused on developing model, complex microbial communities for evolution experiments.
Soffi Law
Ph.D Candidate
Soffi is a GEMS Ph.D fellow based in Monash Malaysia and Monash Australia. Their reasearch focuses on the interactions of antimicrobials with the TolC receptor of S. Sonnei.
Ph. D Candidate
Disha Chaudhary
Ph.D Candidate
Disha is a ITTB-Monash Ph. D fellow. Their reasearch focuses on the tension between cooperation and competition in experimetnal populations of S. cerevisiae.
Atharva Bhide
Atharva's Ph. D is focused on understanding the evolution of multi-species microbial communities on the roots of Canola plants grown in the lab.
2010 - present
Ziqi Shen
Ph. D Candidate - MACSYS
Ziqi is cosupervised by Traude Beilharz, and will be working on the evolution of Central Carbon Metabolism across the tree of life.
Farin Progga
Honours Candidate
Farin is working with on H. pylori - trying to the determine the conditions that promote resistance to Amoxicillin, and the genetic basis of resistance.
Sehrish Kiani
PhD Candidate
Sehrish is a PhD student working on understanding the evolution of complex mutispecies communities.
Nafeedh Samad
Honours Candidate
Nafeedh is studying the evolution of soil bacteria, and root-associated bacteria using lab and glass-house experiments..
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Lab Alumni:
Raju Dantuluri (Masters of Biotechnology)
Helen Nguyen (3990)
Anna Borzyak (3990)
Mahnaz Khamooshi (Masters Genome Analytics)
Ziming Wang ( Masters Genome Analytics)
Huitong Mo (Masters Genome Analytics)
Ruzeen Patwa (Research Assistant)
Dr Gareth Howells (Ph. D)
Dr Shimul MH Chowdhury (Postdoc)
Dr An Nguyen (Ph. D)
Sharikul Huda ((Masters of Biotechnology))
Mariel Beiers (Honours)
Dr Duhita Sant (Ph. D)
Dr. Jake Barber (Ph. D)
Dr Laura Woods (Ph. D)
Bronson O'Halloran (Honours)
Jasmyn Voss (Honours and Research Assistant
Shami Ramanan (Honours)
Trent Anderson (Honours)
Luke Nicholson (Honours)
Rebecca Tooze (3990 undergraduate research)
Emily Watts (3990 undergraduate research)
Imogen Scott (3990 undergraduate research)
Frank Taylor (Honours)
Thomas Brasher (3990 undergraduate research)
Jimmy Tanner (undergraduate volunteer)
Angel Liang (undergraduate volunteer)
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