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. ResearchCollaborative research efforts have focused on:- Intra- and interlocus genetic conflict associated with sex and mating,
- The maintenance of within-population in variation in sexual ornaments,
- The effect of sexual selection on the degree of sex-linkage of ornamental traits,
- The evolution of the Y-chromosome,
- Within-population variation in female mate choice behaviour and mating preferences,
- The evolutionary importance of the costs of mate choice,
- Sperm competition and cryptic female mate choice,
- The roles of resource acquisition and allocation in male sexual signalling and the life-history tradeoffs involved,
- The relationships between diet, reproductive effort and senescence,
- The genetic basis of inbreeding depression,
- The evolution of inbreeding avoidance,
- The genetic benefits of mate choice and polyandry,
- The relationship between sexual selection, sexual conflict and extinction risk,
- The analysis and interpretation of nonlinear selection.
For more information visit the Evolutionary Ecology Of Sexual Reproduction Research Group home page. Postdoctoral FellowsDr Michael Kasumovic. Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-) Dr Alexei Maklakov. Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-present) Dr Simon Lailvaux. Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-present) Dr Erik Postma. UNSW Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-present) Dr Russell Bonduriansky. Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-present) Dr Luc Bussière. National Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada (2003-2004) Dr Jonathan Evans. Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2005) Dr Anna Lindholm. Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2005) Dr John Hunt. Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2005) | 
