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Jun 26, 20191 min read
Funded! Maria has been awarded the WDA-A research award 2019!!
Congratulations to our PhD student Maria Puig Ribas for being awarded the Wildlife Disease Association-Australasia's Research Award for...


Jun 18, 20191 min read
Funded! Grant from Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales!
Thais Sasso Lopes was awarded the Ethel Mary Reid Research Grant from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. She plans to use...


Apr 30, 20191 min read
Posters presentation at ZSL symposium in London!
Last week, Maria and Thais presented their posters at the Zoological Society of London symposium “Mitigating single pathogen and...


Mar 29, 20191 min read
Funded! Thais is awarded the Ric Nattrass Research Grant!
Congratulations to Thais Sasso Lopes for being awarded the 2019 Ric Nattrass Research Grant from QLD frog society! Thais plans to use the...


Jan 30, 20192 min read
"Extreme Competence: Keystone Hosts of Infections" published in TREE!
Our synthesis on the sources of heterogeneity underlying extremely competent hosts (superspreaders etc.) is now online early in Trends in...


Jan 23, 20191 min read
Funded! Dr. Laura Grogan awarded New Researcher Grant!
Dr. Laura Grogan is excited to have been awarded $14,890 under the 2019 Griffith University New Researcher Grant Scheme for the project...


Dec 18, 20181 min read
Funded! Griffith University 2019 International Workshop Award!
Prof. Hamish McCallum and Dr. Laura Grogan have just been awarded a Griffith University 2019 International Workshop Award to a total of...


Dec 17, 20181 min read
Funded! Thais is awarded the ESA Student Research Grant!
Huge congratulations to Thais Sasso Lopes for being awarded the Ecological Society of Australia's Student Research Grant valued at...


Dec 13, 20187 min read
ASH & SRARNZ conference 2018!
Over the last few days six members of our team (Dave Newell, Harry Hines, Laura Grogan, Mariel Familiar Lopez, Thais Sasso Lopes and Liam...


Dec 6, 20181 min read
Hamish awarded for research leadership!
Yesterday, Prof. Hamish McCallum received the Griffith Sciences Award for Research Leadership! Congratulations Hamish!


Dec 4, 20181 min read
Dr. Laura Grogan promoted to Research Fellow Grade 2!
The outcomes of the annual promotion round at Griffith University were announced today, and our team member Dr. Laura Grogan has been...


Dec 4, 20182 min read
First eDNA sampling pilot!
Thais, PhD candidate in our Frog Research Team ran her first official pilot survey for her PhD project in the last couple of days! Here...


Dec 1, 20181 min read
Funded! "Investigation of immune gene expression in chytridiomycosis"
Laura Grogan from our team is thrilled to have just been awarded $9,900 through the competitive Environmental Futures Research Institute...


Nov 11, 20181 min read
Pilot site visits in Lamington National Park!
Sometimes on fieldwork you just have to visit stunningly beautiful places... (and sometimes the road is so eroded that your car won't...


Nov 9, 20182 min read
Chytridiomycosis immunity review now published!
Members of our team have just published an up-to-date comprehensive review and synthesis of the amphibian immune response to...


Nov 7, 20181 min read
Funded! "Amphibians of the World Heritage-listed Gondwana Rainforests"
Members of our team and collaborators (Guy Castley, Hamish McCallum, Harry Hines, Laura Grogan, Thais Sasso Lopes and Dave Newell) have...


Oct 29, 20182 min read
Laura presents her research at the Amphibian Disease Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona
Research Fellow in our team, Dr. Laura Grogan, was recently awarded a 2018 Griffith Sciences Early Career Researcher Travel Grant ($3000)...


Sep 23, 20182 min read
Froggie adventures!
Another exciting froggie adventure for the frog team - this time we braved a night of pouring rain at Border Ranges National Park...


Sep 6, 20182 min read
First frogs of the season!
Over the last few nights our amphibian chytridiomycosis team (Dr. David Newell, Prof. Hamish McCallum, Dr. Laura Grogan and Thais Sasso...


Nov 10, 20171 min read
ARC Discovery Project success!
We're excited to announce that our team has been awarded funding for three years ($414,436) by the Australian Research Council (ARC) in...
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