Yesterday’s ARC Grants announcements held two pieces of particularly good news for the SEX LAB. 1. Dr Michael Kasumovic was awarded a Discovery Grant for a project titled “Adaptive plasticity and evolution: linking the genotype and the environment to understand…
Another baby for a lab alumnus. Former postdoc Anna Lindholm, now living and working in Zurich, gave birth to Linnea Katharina Krützen on 20-Sep-2011 at 10.50 am. Mum and baby are really well, and father Micahel and her sister Maria are…
Rob is appearing at a workshop on Dissecting Gender as part of the 2011 Melbourne Writer’s Festival, on Sunday 28 August, 4-5pm. The other panellists are Jane McCredie and Cordelia Fine, and the session is to be moderated by Monica Dux. The Event description…
Maddie video Maddie Girard is a PhD student from UC Berkeley (Damian Elias’ research group) who studies signalling in peacock spiders and other insects. She is visiting Australia until the end of the year, and will be based in our…
Chang Seok has just been informed that he is to receive a Rosemanry Grant award for Graduate Student Research from the Society for the Study of Evolution. The goal of these grants is to identify and support innovative and potentially…
Our much-loved lab manager, Elke Venstra, has left the building. She’s headed elsewhere to travel and for some well-deserved holiday before starting her next exciting venture. We had a pleasant party on her last day of work last week, and…
I am pleased to say that Lyndon (Alex) Jordan’s PhD thesis received glowing endorsement from three top-quality international examiners, and has been accepted subject to a few minor corrections. If you were ate last Friday’s exit seminar you would have…
Jane McCredie, my publiser at NewSouth Books tells me that Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll has been sent to the printer! I’m very excited that I’ll soon see the book in physical form and cannot wait to start promoting the…
Rob recently participated, together with Professor Bill von Hippel (Psychologist at the University of Queensland) and Helen Statman (performance artist from the troupe Cocoloco) in a Valentine’s day event at the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus). The evening’s events were…
Alex Jordan‘s massive win in the People’s Choice award at the Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania Three-Minute Thesis Competition led to a gig behind the microphone with the ABC. Alex recently recorded this wonderful audio piece on the costs of promiscuity. Listen…