Matt completed his PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2009 on the quantitative genetics of sexual conflict. He then moved to Switzerland to take up a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Basel with Dieter Ebert, swapping to the world of infection. In 2014, Matt returned to Australia to begin a lectureship with the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University.

Vayani joined the lab in 2021 as an Honours student having completed her undergraduate studies at Deakin University. Her Honours project used the Daphnia - Pasteuria host - pathogen system as a test case to explore how sex differences influence pathogen evolution. She stayed on to pursue a PhD and is now investigating how sexually dimorphic populations shape the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of infectious disease.

Nathan completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Wollongong in 2020 where he studied the evolution of sexual signals in blowflies. He joined the lab in 2022 using water fleas (Daphnia) to study the ecology of sex differences & disease dynamics. Now, Nathan is working at La Trobe University on a project titled “Hotspots of invertebrate endemism”.

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Hyoseul completed his Masters at the Kyung Hee University of South Korea with behavioural ecology of aquatic insects. He joined the lab in 2023 and is now studying how sex difference can be evolved under the different reproduction modes and disease environment using Australian Daphnia genotypes.

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