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Exploring QLD and NSW National Parks
And the privilege of sleeping in a tent! First field season is finally done. 5000 km and 12 national parks later I can now say that I...
Oct 18, 20192 min read


Funded! Thais is awarded The Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment!
Thais is honored to be awarded The Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment 2019 round from the Ecological Society of Australia! The...
Jul 17, 20191 min read


Hamish receives the Vice Chancellor's Research Leadership Award!
Congratulations to Professor Hamish McCallum for receiving the Research Leadership Award at last night's Vice Chancellor's Research...
Jul 10, 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 26, 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...
Jun 18, 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...
Apr 30, 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...
Mar 29, 20191 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 30, 20192 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...
Jan 23, 20191 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 18, 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 17, 20181 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 13, 20187 min read


Hamish awarded for research leadership!
Yesterday, Prof. Hamish McCallum received the Griffith Sciences Award for Research Leadership! Congratulations Hamish!
Dec 6, 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, 20181 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 4, 20182 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...
Dec 1, 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 11, 20181 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 9, 20182 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...
Nov 7, 20181 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)...
Oct 29, 20182 min read
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