2025 Brisbane - University of Queensland
Postgraduate
Jamiema Philip Philip, J. S., S. Grewal, J. Scadden, C. Puente-Lelievre, N. J. Matzke, L. McNally, and M. A. B. Baker. 2025. Mapping the loss of flagellar motility across the tree of life. ISME J 19:wraf111.
Postdoc
Paul Battlay Battlay, P., B. T. Hendrickson, J. I. Mendez-Reneau, et al. and N. J. Kooyers. 2025. Haploblocks contribute to parallel climate adaptation following global invasion of a cosmopolitan plant. Nat Ecol Evol 9:1441–1455.
Kris Wild, University of Melbourne Wild, K. H., R. B. Huey, E. R. Pianka, S. Clusella-Trullas, A. L. Gilbert, D. B. Miles, and M. R. Kearney. 2025. Climate change and the cost-of-living squeeze in desert lizards. Science 387:303–309.
2024 Perth - University of Western Australia
Postgraduate
Dr. Sara Ryding, Deakin University
Ryding, S., A. McQueen, M. Klaassen, G. J. Tattersall, and M. R. E. Symonds. 2024. Long- and short-term responses to climate change in body and appendage size of diverse Australian birds. Global Change Biology 30:e17517. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17517
Postdoc
Dr. Maddie James, University of Queensland
James, M. E., R. N. Allsopp, J. S. Groh, A. Kaur, M. J. Wilkinson, and D. Ortiz-Barrientos. 2023. Uncovering the genetic architecture of parallel evolution. Molecular Ecology 32:5575–5589. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17134
2023 Adelaide - University of Adelaide
Postgraduate
Dr. Claudia Crowther, University of New South Wales
Crowther, C., Bonser, S. P., & Schwanz, L. E. (2023). Plasticity and the adaptive evolution of switchlike reaction norms under environmental change. Evolution Letters, qrad035. doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrad035
Postdoc
Dr. Samuel Lymbery, Murdoch University
Lymbery, S. J., Webber, B. L., & Didham, R. K. (2023). Complex battlefields favor strong soldiers over large armies in social animal warfare. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(37), e2217973120. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2217973120
2020 - 2022 no best paper award
2019 Sydney - UNSW
Postgraduate awards (only)
Emily Roycroft, University of Melbourne
Roycroft, E.J., A. Moussalli, K.C. Rowe. 2019. Phylogenomics Uncovers Confidence and Conflict in the Rapid Radiation of Australo-Papuan Rodents. Systematic Biology doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz044
Damien Esquerré, Australian National University
Esquerré, D., I.G. Brennan, R.A. Catullo, F. Torres‐Pérez, J. S. Keogh. 2019. How mountains shape biodiversity: The role of the Andes in biogeography, diversification, and reproductive biology in South America’s most species‐rich lizard radiation (Squamata: Liolaemidae). Evolution 73: 214-230
Erin Macartney, University of New South Wales
Macartney, E.L., A. J. Crean, S.Nakagawa, R. Bonduriansky. 2019. Effects of nutrient limitation on sperm and seminal fluid: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Biological Reviews https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12524