UNSW Leaders in ScienceAssociate Professor Robert Brooks
Director, Evolution & Ecology Research CentreBiological Sciences Building - Room 450D
Phone: +61 2 9385-2587 - Fax: +61 2 9385-1558 - Email: rob.brooks@unsw.edu.au Career profilePublicationsResearchSupervision & teachingFunding PhD positions available
Opportunities are now available for PhD research projects supervised by Associate Professor Rob Brooks. Ideally, students would have with skills in genetics, functional genomics, quantitative genetics, and computational biology. Research projects are well-funded, but students should be competitive for a scholarship to pay living expenses and tuition. Much of the current research is conducted on guppies, field crickets and native flies. There are also opportunitities to work on mice and native Australian fishes (especially osteoglossids and blue-eyes). Close links with Simon Griffith's group provide opportunities for cosupervised projects on other taxa (especially birds). Click here to find out more about postgraduate research at the UNSW Faculty of Science. Funding2008
ARC LIEF (Simpson et al, through Sydney University, AU$170,000) Video analysis suite for the integrative analysis of resource acquisition behavior in animals. 2007
UNSW Major Research Equipment & Infrastructure Scheme (Brooks, Lailvaux, Maklakov, Postma, Bonduriansky, Ballard & Wroe, AU$85,000) Building capacity to study the relationships between physiological performance, behaviour, biomechanics and genetic fitness. 2006-08
ARC Discovery Grant (Brooks & Bonduriansky, AU$336,000) "Why do good males die young? The relationship between ageing and sexual selection." 2005 - 09
ARC Discovery Grant (Sole Investigator, AU$830,000) "Additive and non-additive genetic benefits of mating behaviour: a synthesis of sexual selection and conservation genetics" 2004
UNSW Capital Grant (Sherwin, Brooks, Bonser, Griffith, Hyde, Krutzen, Lindholm, & Dawson, AU$150,000) "Molecular ecology and evolution facility" 2002 - 04
ARC Discovery Grant (Brooks & Lindholm, AU$301,800) "How sexually antagonistic genes and sexual selection influence the evolution of the Y chromosome" 2002 - 04
ARC Discovery Grant (Hunt, Brooks & Jennions, AU$482,000) "Putting sexual selection in a life-history context: what is meant by genetic quality?" 2001 - 03
UNSW Vice Chancellor's Teaching and Research Grant (Sole Investigator, AU$160,000) 1999 - 01
ARC Large Research Grant (Sole Investigator, AU$126,000) "The importance of variation in mating preferences to sexual selection" and seven minor research grants (< AU$30,000 each). | 
