Principal Investigator

Projects in my group cover a broad range of topics: understanding how environmental factors affect body size and shape, determining how the organs of the body coordinate their growth and patterning, investigating how environmental factors affect foraging choice, and finally exploring the evolution of plasticity.

Post-Doctoral NHMRC ECR Fellow

My research aims to use Drosophila as a model to understand how different nutritional inputs regulate secretion of the peptide hormone insulin. I am also interested in identifying novel genes that are required for insulin production and secretion in both Drosophila and mammals.

Lab Manager

As a lifelong lover of animal biology, I completed my undergraduate degree at Monash University majoring in conservation biology and ecology in 2022. I took my keen interest in animal behaviour further by undertaking an honours year where I graduated first class in 2023. Since 2024, I’ve been supporting the Mirth Lab as their Research Assistant, and it’s been great seeing such innovative work from the team. Outside the lab, I enjoy gaming and making costumes!

PhD Candidate

In my research, I use the Drosophila larval ovary as a system to study how the hormone signalling pathways of insulin and ecdysone interact to modify development. I am interested in how this network contributes to the organisation of somatic cells in the ovary.

PhD Candidate

My project aims to understand how cells integrate information from the pulsing expression of key regulators. To do so, I use microfluidic devices to culture Drosophila wing discs and manipulate the concentration of the hormone Ecdysone over time.

PhD Candidate

I am interested in finding the genetic mechanisms that underlie plastic responses of body size to temperature and diet.

PhD Candidate

My research focuses on how complex environments influence body shape. I’m interested in how sex-specific genetic variation contributes to plastic shifts in allometry and wing shape.