Brian Mautz
Postdoc
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Brian arrived in early 2012 to work on a collaborative project with Russell Bonduriansky (UNSW) on sexual selection and life history evolution in Antler flies. It's a very cool system in which measures approaching male lifetime fitness can be gained in the wild. We're going to get him a new hat though.

Nicolas Rode
Postdoc, joint with Rees Kassen.
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Nicolas is working on empirical (evolutionary) tests of the conditions favouring increased/decreased investment sexual reproduction in the facultatively sexual fungus, Apsergillus nidulans. Sex in fungi is ridiculously complicated.

Devin Arbuthnott
PhD Candidate
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Devin is interested in the contribution of sexual selection to adaptation and speciation. He has exploredits effects in purging deleterious mutations, and is currently working on the ecology of sexual conflict and plasticity in mate preferences.

Anita Melnyk
PhD Candidate, co-supervised by Rees Kassen.
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Anita hopes to study sexual selection's role in adapatation and speciation in yeast, and possibly characterize epistatsis among beneficial alleles fixed during replicate adaptive walks in the same species.

Alison White
MSc Candidate
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Alison is loooking at male-male aggression as a component of sexual fitness in Drosophila serrata.

Mathew Oudin
MSc Candidate
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Mat is studying condition-dependent seuxal dimorphism in antler fly morphology.

Honours students
Emily Dutton
Ameila Buchanan