Hub founders
Dr Ang McGaughran University of Waikato Hamilton
NEW ZEALAND Expertise: invasion genomics, eco-evolution Email: amcgaugh@waikato.ac.nz
Dr Manpreet Dhami Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Lincoln
NEW ZEALAND Expertise: biocontrol and molecular ecology Email: DhamiM@landcareresearch.co.nz
Hub members
Dr Eli Parvizi, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand; Expertise: population genomics; Email: ellie.parvizi@waikato.ac.nz
Dr Amy Vaughan, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand; Expertise: microbiology, comparative genomics; Email: VaughanA@landcareresearch.co.nz
Dr Anna Santure, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; Expertise: evolutionary and conservation genomics; Email: a.santure@auckland.ac.nz
Mr Dinindu Senanayake, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), Auckland, New Zealand; Expertise: bioInformatics; Email: dinindu.senanayake@nesi.org.nz
Ms Amali Thrimawithana, Plant and Food Research, Auckland, New Zealand; Expertise: bioinformatics; Email: amali.thrimawithana@plantandfood.co.nz
Dr Josefa Gonzalez, IBE, CSIC, UPF, Barcelona, Spain; Expertise: adaptation genomics; Email: josefa.gonzalez@csic.es
Assist Prof Kathryn Turner, Idaho State University, Pocatello, United States; Expertise: invasion biology, ecological genomics, plants, herbarium genomics; Email: turnkat2@isu.edu
Dr Iva Popovic, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia; Expertise: invasion genomics, hybridisation and evolution in marine organisms; Email: iva.popovic@uq.net.au
Dr Anastasija Zaiko, Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand; Expertise: environmental genomics, biological invasions; Email: anastasija.zaiko@cawthron.org.nz
Dr Israel Borokini, University of California, United States; Expertise: niche differentiation, landscape genetics; Email: iborokini@berkeley.edu
Dr Arnaud Estoup, CBGP - INRAE, International Campus of Baillarguet, France; Expertise: population genetics; Email: arnaud.estoup@inrae.fr
Miss Drashti Parmar, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland; Expertise: evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, molecular biology, wildlife forensics; Email: drashti.183@gmail.com
Ms Cecilia Deng, Plant and Food Research, Auckland, New Zealand; Expertise: bioinformatics; Email: cecilia.deng@plantandfood.co.nz
Dr Tom Schmidt, University of Melbourne, Australia; Expertise: genomics of invasive invertebrates, Wolbachia invasions, dispersal biology; Email: tom.schmidt@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Stephen Frankenberg, University Of Melbourne, Australia; Expertise: reproductive and developmental biology, genetic biocontrol, synthetic biology, genomics; Email: srfr@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Kevin Dudley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Expertise: epigenetics and genomics; Email: kevin.dudley@qut.edu.au
Dr Florian Pichlmueller, University of Auckland, New Zealand; Expertise: population genetics and genomics, bioinformatics, invasive species, ecology, (vertebrates)
Emma Andrews; Ministry for Primary Industries
Ms Sarah Wood, Victoria University of Wellington/MPI, Wellington, New Zealand; Email: wood.sarah.n@gmail.com
Mr Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt, University of Auckland, New Zealand; Expertise: common myna invasion genomics, Email: a.kamolphat@gmail.com
Dr Lee Rollins, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Expertise: whole genome resequencing, reduced representation sequencing methods (including RRBS), transcriptomics; Email: l.rollins@unsw.edu.au
Dr Jesse Lasky, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, United States; Expertise: evolutionary genetics, ecology, population and quanitative genomics; Email: lasky@psu.edu
Dr Jane Molofsky, University of Vermont, Vermont, United States; Expertise: admixture and hybridization and invasion; Email: jane.molofsky@uvm.edu
Dr Katarina Stuart, University of Auckland, New Zealand; Expertise: genome assembly, reduced representation sequencing, whole genome resequencing, historical samples, selection analysis, structural variants, transposable elements; Email: katarina.stuart@unsw.edu.au
Ms Yesim Erol, Turhal, Turkey; Expertise: entomology, symbiosis; Email: yesimrl@gmail.com
Dr Fernando Hernández, University of British Columbia, Canada; Expertise: invasive plants, invasion genomics; Email: fhernandez@biodiversity.ubc.ca
Dr Robert Colautti, Queen’s University, Canada; Expertise: rapid evolution, plants; Email: robert.colautti@queensu.ca
Ms Paige Matheson, University of Waikato, New Zealand; Expertise: population genomics, invasive species; Email: paige.matheson14@gmail.com
Professor Laura Meyerson, University of Rhode Island, United States; Expertise: invasion science; Email: lameyerson@uri.edu
Dr Olivia Patty, Ministry of Primary Industries, New Zealand; Expertise: biosecurity; Email: olivia.patty@mpi.govt.nz
Dr Carrie Wi, University of Richmond, United States; Expertise: plant evolutionary ecology; Email: cwu@richmond.edu
Dr Katrina Dlugosch, University of Arizona, United States; Expertise: rapid evolution, evolutionary ecology, plants, population genomics; Email: kdlugosch@arizona.edu
Mr Sam Vanbergen, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium; Expertise: Population genomics of pest fruit flies; Email: sam.vanbergen8@gmail.com
Dr Pablo Deschepper, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium; Expertise: Invasion genomics of tephritid pest species; Email: pablo.deschepper@africamuseum.be
Professor Maxine Piggott, Charles Darwin University, Australia; Expertise: eDNA, population genomics, biosecurity; Email: maxine.piggott@cdu.edu.au
Associate Scientist Carolyn Tepolt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States; Expertise: Rapid adaptation, dispersal, marine invasions, ecophysiology; Email: ctepolt@whoi.edu
Mr Benjamín Durán-Vinet, University of Otago, New Zealand; Expertise: CRISPR-based diagnostics; Email: benjamin.duran-vinet@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Dr Scott Sinclair, Biosecurity New Zealand, Ministry for Primary Industries; Expertise: Genetics, molecular biology, biosecurity, cell biology, plant pathology, biochemistry; Email: scott.sinclair@mpi.govt.nz
Dr Huimin Lin, Biosecurity New Zealand; Expertise: Biosecurity, risk assessment, pest management
Dr Sarah Inwood, University of Otago, New Zealand; Expertise: Insect genomics, host-parasite interactions, viruses, biocontaol; Email: sarah.inwood@otago.ac.nz