Hoffmann Group
“Our lab undertakes research on adaptation of organisms (particularly invertebrates) to environmental stresses including climate change and chemical pollutants, using field sites in the Victorian mountains, in tropical rainforests and in wetlands around Melbourne. We also develop integrated pest control options, investigate how landscape changes can be harnessed to provide pest control services, contribute to novel approaches for suppressing dengue mosquito vectors, and examine new ways to predict species distribution shifts under climate change.” – Professor Ary Hoffmann.
Research
The Hoffmann group focuses on three main areas of research:
- Climatic Stress - to find traits that enable adaptation to climatic stress, and to understand the genetic basis of these traits;
- Applied - to develop better ways of sustainably controlling pest species important from an agricultural perspective.
- Applied – to explore new ways of reducing the transmission of human diseases by insect vectors based on endosymbionts.
In understanding the main issues and mechanisms involved with adaptation of organisms to stress, we are able to make informed management decisions to assist the community and industry.
Follow this link to the group's PEARG blog page.
Techniques
Molecular population markers, ecological assessments, pesticide assays, quantitative genetic analyses, molecular species markers and entomological sampling.
Group Members
Group Head
Professor Ary Hoffmann AC FAA. FAAAS
Melbourne Laureate Professor
School of Biosciences
T: (+ 61 3) 8344 2204
E: ary [at] unimelb.edu.au
Research Staff
Alex Gill | Research Officer
Ashley Callahan | Research Officer
Belinda van Heerwaarden | ARC Future Fellow
Catilyn Perry | Research Fellow
Courtney Brown | Research Officer
Jade Russell | Research Officer
Jessica Chung | Bioinformation
Joshua Thia | Research Fellow
Kelly Richardson | Research Officer
Melissa Carew | Research Fellow
Monica Stelmach | Research Officer
Nancy Endersby-Harshman | Lab Manager and Research Fellow
Nick Bell | Research Operations Lead
Paul Umina | Enterprise Fellow
Perran Ross | DECRA Fellow
Peter Ridland | Research Fellow
Qiony Yang | Research Fellow
Tom Schmidt | DECRA Fellow
Xinyue Gu | Research Fellow
Graduate Students
Ashrita Dorai | PhD Candidate
Eddie Tsyrlin | PhD Candidate
Eloise Ansermin | PhD Candidate
Hareem Qazi | PhD Candidate
Hiromi Briones | PhD Candidate
Holly Kang | PhD Candidate
John Black | PhD Candidate
Mohd Farihan Md Yatim | PhD Candidate
Moshe Jasper | PhD Candidate
Safieh Soleimannejad | PhD Candidate
Véronique Paris | PhD Candidate
