Dr Linda Neaves
Dr Linda Neaves is a Research Associate at the Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics. Dr Neaves' research interests include:
- The application of genomic tools to inform wildlife conservation and management.
- Molecular ecology, evolution and conservation genetics of terrestrial plants and animals, including dispersal, phylogeography, population structure, gene flow and hybridisation and impacts of habitat fragmentation.
- Trophic interactions between species (the food web) and how changes in one species may impact on the survival of another.
- Enhancing the integration of genetic information and genetic tools into conservation and management programs and policy.
Dr Linda Neaves' PhD research focused on the population genetic of the western grey kangaroo, and potential hybridisation with eastern grey kangaroos. Since this time, Linda has been involved with several population and conservation genetics projects in both animals and plants. Linda is also very interested enhancing the use of genetic information in conservation and management policy and practice, both through targeted research and the use of general principles where such data is absent.
Linda is currently a joint postdoctoral fellow with the ACWG and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. This position allows Linda to collaborate on a diverse range of research and applied genetics/genomics projects. Some of the work Linda is involved with includes the koala genome project, several projects providing data to inform captive breeding and population management, phylogeny and species identification in flying foxes and population/conservation genetics of macropods. Linda is also currently researching species interactions/dependencies, focussing on using genomic methods to investigate the diet of large herbivores, in particular Giant Panda, and the potential impacts of climate change on these species through the species they consume.
Qualifications
- PhD 2007 Macquarie University
- BSc (1st class Hons) 2003 Macquarie University
