People

Lab Head

Rich Edwards is a Principal Research Fellow and Laboratory Lead for the Ocean Genomes Laboratory, part of the Minderoo OceanOmics Centre at UWA in the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor in Genomics and Bioinformatics in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Originally from southern England, Rich trained a geneticist at the University of Nottingham before moving to Dublin, Ireland to become a full time bioinformatician in 2001. The lab was established in 2007 when Rich moved to Southampton, before moving to UNSW in 2013 and then UWA in 2022. Click here for more information.

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PostDocs

Collin Ahrens joined the group in January 2021 from WSU to work on the ARC Linkage Grant with the Royal Botanic Gardens to apply genomics to challenges of conservation for rainforest trees in the face of climate change and invasive pathogens.

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PostGrads

Harry Eyck joined the Rollins lab in Term 1 2019, with the Edwards lab as his extended academic family. Harry is working on nematodes that infect cane toads.

Stephanie Chen joined the Edwards Lab as a PhD student in May 2019, co-supervised by Jason Bragg of the Royal Botanic Garden and Domain Trust. Her PhD focuses on landscape genomics of Myrtaceae species (includes eucalypts, paperbarks, and tea-trees) and the genetic basis of resistance to myrtle rust, which is of pressing concern to Australia’s native biodiversity.

Kelton Cheung joined the Rollins and Edwards labs in Term 3 2020 as a Scientia PhD student to develop genomic resources in the cane toad for molecular ecology. Among other things, Kelton will be working on the ongoing efforts to improve the cane toad reference genome.

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Alumni

Please visit the Alumni page for former lab members.