Dr. 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 9385 0034
B.A. (Honors), 2000, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., 2006, University of New Mexico
email: l.schwanz@unsw.edu.au
Ph: (0)2 9385 0034
**I am recruiting PhD students with interests in vertebrate biology, thermal ecology, phenotypic plasticity, sex allocation. Please email me with any inquiries and tell me what interests you.
Current Lab Members
Dr. Julia Riley (Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellow 2018) - reptile cognition
Mitchell Hodgson (PhD, 2017 - ) - thermal ecology and adaptation in reptiles
Emily Rayner (Honours 2017/18) - developmental effects on cognition in reptiles
Past Lab Members
- 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
- 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
- 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.