Dr Michelle Guzik
Research Lead: Environmental DNA and Genomics
Dr Michelle Guzik (she/her) is the research lead on development of environmental DNA (eDNA) and metagenomics techniques that assess the vulnerability of Australian groundwater ecosystems and their taxa.
Dr Erinn Fagan-Jeffries
Research Lead: Wasp Taxonomy and Systematics
Dr Erinn Fagan-Jeffries (she/her) completed her PhD on parasitoid wasp taxonomy and has continued to discover and describe many new species. She leads the Insect Investigators citizen science project and is an awarded science communicator.
Academic Staff
Dr Danielle Stringer
Industry-Funded Research Fellow
Crustacean Taxonomy and Systematics
Dr Elisabeth Williamson
Postdoctoral Researcher
Evolution and Genomics
Dr Jess Marsh
ARC Industry Fellow
Spider Taxonomy and Cave Biology
Dr Maura Haas-Renninger
Humbolt Fellow
Wasp Taxonomy and Systematics
Affiliated Academics
Dr Alana McClelland
Wasp Taxonomy and Systematics
Emeritus Professor Andy Austin
Emeritus Professorial Research Fellow
Invertebrate Systematics and Evolution
Dr Ben Parslow
SAMA Collaborator
Wasp Taxonomy and Systematics
Dr Rachael King
SAMA Collaborator
Crustacean Taxonomy and Systematics
Professor Steve Cooper
SAMA Collaborator
Molecular Evolution and Systematics
HDR Students
Andrew Stempel
Subterranean Invertebrates
Callum Bush
Cave Cricket Population Genetics
Charlie Lassaline
Terrestrial Invertebrate Trade
George Zhao
Diving Beetle Ecology and Systematics
Jake Thornhill
Stygofauna Systematics and eDNA
Kantine Liu
Rock-hole Invertebrates and Climate Change
Katherine Oestmann
Endemism in Great Artesian Basin springs
Kudzaishe Precious Mavende
Smart Surveillance of Parasitoid Wasps
Milad Khosravi
Milyeringa eDNA
Mollie Slater-Baker
Wasp Taxonomy and Systematics
Nicole Fechner
Snail Taxonomy and Systematics
Shannon Tetley
Wasp Taxonomy and Systematics
Stefan Dahl
MPhil
Tareva-Chine Atkins-Zaldivar
Wasp Taxonomy and Systematics
Research Assistants
Olivia Portmann
Research Assistant
Tiahni Bament
Research Assistant
Honours Students
New students coming soon…
Casual staff and Volunteers
Blair Lamont
Vian Pettit
Former Lab Members (since 2020)
Staff
- Dr Tessa Bradford
- Dr Gary Taylor
HDR Students
- Dr Jenna Draper
- Megan Thomas
- Elaine Anderson
- Dr Karl Jones
Honours Students
- Kelly Summers
- Jenny d’Arcy
- Michael Scholich
ISB Lab Social Events
Invertebrate Systematics and Biodiversity Lab 