Lisa Schwanz
B.A. (Honors), 2000, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., 2006, University of New Mexico
Senior Lecturer
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of New South Wales
Kensington, NSW 2052 Australia
email: l.schwanz@unsw.edu.au
Ph: (0)2 9385 0034
B.A. (Honors), 2000, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., 2006, University of New Mexico
Senior Lecturer
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of New South Wales
Kensington, NSW 2052 Australia
email: l.schwanz@unsw.edu.au
Ph: (0)2 9385 0034
Current Lab Members
I am recruiting PhD students with interests in vertebrate biology, thermal ecology, phenotypic plasticity, etc. Please email me with any inquiries and tell me what interests you.
Dr. Jussi Lehtonen (VC Postdoctoral Fellow 2016 - ) - theory of sex and sex allocation
Mitchell Hodgson (PhD, 2017 - ) - thermal ecology and adaptation in reptiles
Gracie Liu (Honours 2017) - hormonal mediators of maternal effects in jacky dragons
Rebecca Pacey (Honours 2017) - sources of colour pattern variation in jacky dragon hatchlings
Janelle So (Honours 2017) - thermal parental effects on thermal preferences and limits
Past Lab Members
- Dr. Thomas Merkling (Endeavour Post-doctoral Fellowship and Fyssen Visiting Fellow, 2016-17) - meta-anlayses of phyaiological correlates of offspring sex ratio in birds and mammals
- Mathew Harper (Honours 2016) - thermal parental effects on offspring basking behaviour
- Mitchell Hodgson (Honours 2016; Summer Vacation Research Scholar 2015) - thermal adaptation in jacky dragons
- Stephanie McDonald (Honours 2015) - thermal parental effects on offspring behaviour
- Maria Boyle (Ph.D. 2013), University of Canberra (co-supervised with Arthur Georges and Jim Hone) - Consequences of temperature-dependent sex determination for population persistence and range change under warming climates.
