Lisa Schwanz - Lab Leader
B.A. (Honors), 2000, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., 2006, University of New Mexico
email: l.schwanz@unsw.edu.au
Ph: (0)2 9065 1997
B.A. (Honors), 2000, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., 2006, University of New Mexico
email: l.schwanz@unsw.edu.au
Ph: (0)2 9065 1997
I am recruiting PhD students with interests in animal evolutionary ecology, thermal ecology, phenotypic plasticity, sex allocation. Please email me with any inquiries and tell me what interests you.
Current Lab Members
Rebecca Raynal (PhD, 2018 - ) - Impacts of temperature on development and physiology
Phil Pearson (PhD, U Canberra, 2018 - ) - Temperature, sex reversal and hatchling outcomes in bearded dragons
Kris Wild (PhD, U Canberra, 2018 - ) - Sex reversal in wild bearded dragons
Claudia Crowther (PhD, 2019 - ) - Maternal effects and sex ratios
Davey Dor (PhD, 2022 - ) - Ecology and management of flatback sea turtles
Shirley Chia (Honours, 2022) - Animal diversity in relation to natural variation in vegetation
Lewis Loncar (Honours, 2022) - Insect assemblages associated with Mulga trees
Current Lab Members
Rebecca Raynal (PhD, 2018 - ) - Impacts of temperature on development and physiology
Phil Pearson (PhD, U Canberra, 2018 - ) - Temperature, sex reversal and hatchling outcomes in bearded dragons
Kris Wild (PhD, U Canberra, 2018 - ) - Sex reversal in wild bearded dragons
Claudia Crowther (PhD, 2019 - ) - Maternal effects and sex ratios
Davey Dor (PhD, 2022 - ) - Ecology and management of flatback sea turtles
Shirley Chia (Honours, 2022) - Animal diversity in relation to natural variation in vegetation
Lewis Loncar (Honours, 2022) - Insect assemblages associated with Mulga trees
Past Lab Members
Post-docs
Post-docs
- Dr. Julia Riley (Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellow 2018) - reptile cognition
- Dr. Jussi Lehtonen (VC Postdoctoral Fellow 2016 - 2018) - theory of sex and sex allocation
- Dr. Thomas Merkling (Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellow and Fyssen Visiting Fellow, 2016-17) - meta-anlayses of physiological correlates of offspring sex ratio in birds and mammals
- Mitchell Hodgson (Ph.D. 2021), University of New South Wales - Thermal physiology and behaviour of ectotherms: How evolution and plasticity define responses to temperature and climate.
- 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.
- Davey Dor (Honours 2021) - snail host life history response to trematode parasites
- Rachel Irwin (Honours 2019) - costs of thermoregulation
- Emily Rayner (Honours 2017/18) - developmental effects on cognition in reptiles
- Louis Dardare (Honours 2017) - modelling sperm limitation
- 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
- 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
