Scott Keogh
Reader (Associate Professor) in Evolutionary Biology, coffee maker, CEO of the Keogh Lab.
I split my time between molecular phylogenetics and molecular and behavioral ecology. I and the members of my group mostly work on reptiles and frogs and we tolerate fish, but all of this is explained more fully on my research interests page. I teach first and second year vertebrate zoology. I am also heavily involved in postgraduate education - I'm the Graduate Convenor in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics and I run a detailed advice web site for postgradaute students and postdocs. If you are interested in doing honours or a PhD with me, please read this page, and then get in touch.
Dr. Joanna Sumner
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2008
Jo has won an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (and major grant) to support her research. Jo did her PhD in the lab of Prof. Craig Moritz at the University of Queensland on fine-scale genetic strucutre of forest skinks. For the last few years she and her husband Tim Jessop have been working on the ecology of Komodo Dragons. Jo's ARC postdoc in our lab will examine the molecular phylogeny and fine-scale phylogeography of our favourite group of lizards, the water skinks (Eulamprus) to shed light on the history of the Great Dividing Range.
Dr. Conrad Hoskin
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2009
Conrad has won an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (and major grant) to support his research and he'll be starting in mid-2007. Conrad did his PhD in the lab of Prof. Craig Moritz at the University of Queensland on the complex idea of how "reinforcement" can act as a mechanism in speciation. Conrad's ARC postdoc in our lab will continue this work and I'm sure he'll be doing lots of other fantastic things with Australian frogs.
Dr. Dan Edwards
Postdoctral Research Associate, 2007-2008
Dan recently finished her PhD on the comparative phylogeography of frogs in southwestern Australia - Australia's biodiversity hotspot. Dan has generated huge amounts of important data that has shed important light on what is happening in this hottest of hotspots. Dan has now started a one-year Postdoc with me on the southwest, later this year.
Suzi Morrison
PhD student - supported by an APA PhD Scholarship, 2005 onward
Suzi did her honours in our lab way back in 1999 and now she is working on the ecology and conservation biology of the Fijian Crested Iguana on a beautiful island called Yadua Taba in Fiji.
Mitzy Pepper
PhD student - supported by an ANU PhD Scholarship, 2007 onward
Mitzy did her honours in our lab in 2005 and she is now working on her PhD - continuing with her work on the comparative phylogeography of the amazing Pilbara fauna.
Renee Catullo
PhD student - supported by an ANU PhD Scholarship, 2008 onward
Renee is originally from the USA but has lived and worked in Australia for several years and is now as Aussie as a koala. She will be starting her PhD in February 2008 and will be working on the phylogenetic systematics of Uperoleia frogs.
David Moore
Research Assistant, 2007-2008.
David did honours with me last year and he is now working for me as an RA doing some big-scale frog phylogenetic projects.
Geoff Kay
Honours student, 2007-2008 cohort.
Geoff did a Third Year Special Topics project with me last year on plant distributions of southwestern Australia. He will be using this background in his honours project on the comparative phylogeogarphy of southwestern lizards.