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Summer Research Studentship Program

Fungal pathogen trials on Cakile maritima undertaken as a Summer Research Studentship.

The Centre’s Summer Research Studentship program has continued to prove both popular and extremely successful. The program aims to encourage continued involvement of young people in science, provide opportunities for ‘on-the-job’ experience and raise the profile of the Centre as a potential place for postgraduate studies. A modest stipend is provided from Centre funds or external sources. Although the completion of a publishable piece of work is not the aim of this program, since its inception students have been involved in the authorship of several scientific manuscripts.

Summer Studentship project reports.

2011 Report

The Studentship for 2010-11 were:

Student	Topic	Supervisor
Catherine Ross	Evolution of polyploidy in Acacia	Joe Miller
Lisa Stephenson	Species Richness and endemism of the bryophytes	Carlos Gonzalez-Orozco & Chris Cargill

Studentships since 2001 are listed below.

Student	Topic	Supervisor	Year
Ms D. Medek	Asterella drummondii complex in New South Wales: How many species?	C. Cargill	2001-02
Ms A. Skinner	The effects of tree isolation on the genetic diversity and seed production of Camden White Gum (Eucalyptus benthamii Maiden et Cambage).	C. Gardiner & P. Butcher	2001-02
Mr A. Roberts	Australian Teucrium L. and its World Context	R. de Kok	2001-02
Ms R. Murti	Variation in Root Set on Selected Eucalyptus grandis cuttings	C. Harwood	2001-02
Mr L. Barrett	Variation in Growth and Spore Production in the Fungal Pathogen Alternaria brassicicola	P. Thrall	2001-02
Ms N. Vella	The Hornwort Genus Megaceros: The Australian Connection	C. Cargill	2002-03
Ms R. Golding	Ecological Risk Assessment of Transgenic Virus-Resistant White Clover	R. Godfree & A. Young	2002-03
Ms A. Davidson	Native Fusarium and Cotton in Australia	A. Becerra & B. Wang	2002-03
Mr P. U. Achour	Phylogeny in the Red Ironbarks (Eucalyptus series Siderophloiae)	M. McDonald	2002-03
Lyndsey Vivian	Patterns of Weed Invasion in Subalpine Vegetation and the Role of Trifolium repens (White Clover)	Bob Godfree	2003-04
William Murray	Exploring the ecological implications of insect body size	Saul Cunningham (CSIRO Entomology)	2003-04
Emma Crewdson	Conservation of Australian Orchids by Seed Propagation	Mark Clements	2003-04
Samantha Citroen	Fern Distribution and Diversity in Australia	Sophie Bickford	2003-04
Sara Rich	Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian citrus: the Citreae tribe in a world context	Randy Bayer	2003-04
Nathan Potter	Evaluation of inoculation methods to determine disease response of cultivated and native cultivars to Fusarium oxysorum f. sp. Vasinfectum	Augusto Becerra & Curt Brubaker	2004-05
Tristan Reekie	Evolutionary Relationships among Rust Fungi in the Genus Melampsora	Marlien Van Der Merwe	2004-05
Susan Brandner	An assessment of the fungal specificity of the orchid sub-tribe Pterostylis	Dr Tupac Otero	2004-05
	The biodiversity and evolutionary relationships of the Australian members of the liverwort genus Fossombronia through molecular sequences	Christine Cargill	06-07
Aiden Varan	Does genetic delineation exist between Eastern Australian Helmet orchids?	M. Clements	08-09
Steve Chivers	Population genetics of the invasive honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) using AFLP’s: A comparison between native and invasive ranges.	Joe Miller Andy Schnabel	08-09
Kirstin Proft	Genetics of the invasive weeds bitou bush and boneseed	Richard Watts	09-10

Staff

Staff supervising Summer Studentships are listed in the third column above.