Fellowships
2023–2026
2022–2023
2019
2018–2019
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship
Harvard University; Cassandra Extavour
'Developing tick control strategies to prevent Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases'
American Australian Association, Graduate Education Scholarship
Harvard University; Cassandra Extavour
'Fundamental biology of a highly invasive tick that reproduces without mating'
International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wood-Whelan Research Fellowship
University of Nevada, Reno; Monika Gulia-Nuss
'Development of transgenic black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis)'
Australian Federal Government, Endeavour Research Fellowship
Columbia University; Maria Diuk-Wasser
'Behavioural genetics of ticks'
Research Grants
2024
2021
2021
2016–2017
2016
Zymo Research, Omics Discovery Grant
Harvard University
'Molecular mechanisms of development in ticks'
Entomological Society of America, Henry and Sylvia Richardson Research Grant
University of Sydney
'Vector control for the control of an emerging tick-borne disease, bovine anaemia caused by Theileria orientalis group’
McGarvie Smith Institute, Research Grant
University of Sydney
'Effects of Haemaphysalis longicornis infestation and Theileria orientalis parasitism on the responsiveness of cattle to vaccination'
American Genetic Association, Evolutionary, Ecological or Conservation Genomics Research Award
University of Sydney
'Anarchy in the honey bee colony: the genetic basis of worker sterility in the honey bee'
Genetics Society, Genetics Society Training Grant
Monash University
'Characterising a sterility-inducing gene using transgenic Drosophila melanogaster'