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
Subterranean beetle eye gene evolution
Dr Jess Marsh
ARC Industry Fellow
Spider taxonomy, cave biology
Affiliated Academics
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
Dr Alana McClelland
Wasp Taxonomy and Systematics
HDR Students
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
Stefan Dahl
MPhil
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
Tareva-Chine Atkins-Zaldivar
Wasp Taxonomy and Systematics
Honours Students
Kelly Summers
Taxonomy of Queensland Cave Crickets
Olivia Portmann
Wasp Taxonomy and Systematics
Research Assistants
Tiahni Bament
Research Assistant
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
- Jenny d’Arcy
- Michael Scholich
ISB Lab Social Events
Invertebrate Systematics and Biodiversity Lab 