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Haylee D'Agui
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Botany. Ecology. 🌱🌼

Senior Research Officer, National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Resilient Landscapes Hub
nesplandscapes.edu.au


Project Officer, Population Biology and Genomics Group
popbiolgenomics.org

Curtin University
Perth, WA
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Congratulations to Population Biology and Genomics @ Curtin's Dr Brenton von Takach for winning the ECR of the Year award in the 2024 Curtin Research Excellence and Engagement awards!! So proud! 👏🏽🎉🏆

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November 15, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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Coding Club is going strong! 💻💪😊 Today Michael Adamos presented on 'Multivariate statistical analysis in R' and research being undertaken by the forensic and analytical chemistry team. The Population Biology and Genomics team are proud to run this club😁 @benflips.bsky.social @certhionyx.bsky.social
August 16, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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#wildoz #westernaustralia #tcz
The great toad demoistening begins! 🌿🌏🧪
Cane toads have almost conquered the width of the country. This 'waterless barrier' could stop them
A bevy of small mammals and lizards could find themselves on the endangered species list if cane toads got into the Pilbara. A bold plan could prevent the biodiversity disaster, but more money is need...
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July 17, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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The Toad Containment Zone - a project that aims to protect Pilbara wildlife from the impending cane toad invasion. For more details on the Toad Containment Zone, see the project's website here: toadfree.zone/the-tcz-1
www.abc.net.au/news/science...

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Cane toads have almost conquered the width of the country. This 'waterless barrier' could stop them
A bevy of small mammals and lizards could find themselves on the endangered species list if cane toads got into the Pilbara. A bold plan could prevent the biodiversity disaster, but more money is need...
www.abc.net.au
July 17, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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Big day for colleagues at Curtin University @benflips.bsky.social as they launch WA's proposed Toad Control Zone - ambitious plans to hold back the cane toad wave by controlling water across the Pilbara!
#conservation #invasiveSpecies
🧪🌏🐸
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Cane toads have almost conquered the width of the country. This 'waterless barrier' could stop them
A bevy of small mammals and lizards could find themselves on the endangered species list if cane toads got into the Pilbara. A bold plan could prevent the biodiversity disaster, but more money is need...
www.abc.net.au
July 17, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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👨‍💻Great to see so many people at the launch of the
Curtin School of Molecular & Life Sciences Coding Club!👩‍💻Presented by the Population Biology and Genomics team, the club is for staff + students to help each other with coding and coding-related problems @benflips.bsky.social @certhionyx.bsky.social
May 27, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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🎇PhD Opportunity with Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin University🎇

Project: Estimating dispersal from population genomics data

Supervisor: Prof Ben Phillips
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Details: popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie... Please share!
May 14, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Honours Opportunity with Population Biology & Genomics at
Curtin University! Project: Could bilbies facilitate the Cane Toad invasion? Supervisor: Prof. Ben Phillips & Dr
@judydunlop.bsky.social Details: popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie...
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May 8, 2024 at 4:16 AM
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🎇PhD Opportunity with Population Biology & Genomics
at Curtin University🎇
Project: Integrating population ecology & decision theory to inform invasive species management
Supervisor: Prof Ben Phillips @benflips.bsky.social
Details: popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie... Please share!
May 8, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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First detection of rat poisons in wild amphibians...

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April 30, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Are you a herper 🦎🧪student looking for a postgrad research project? Well boy do I have a project for you! Join @pezoporus.bsky.social, @certhionyx.bsky.social and I in Perth for a Masters project on connectivity and genetic diversity of two urban reptile species! May include fieldwork if desired.
Flyer describing research project titled "Navigating the urban environment: landscape genomics of two skink species in Perth." Text reads "Understanding connectivity across the urban environment is an important part of conservation management. This exciting Masters research project will combine genomic and environmental data to assess connectivity and genetic diversity in two fossorial skinks endemic to Western Australia — Buchanan’s snake-eyed skink, commonly found in urban gardens, and West-coast laterite ctenotus, restricted to remnant bushland. Comparing how these two different species move across the landscape will help inform conservation management of urban biodiversity. The student will conduct lab-based (DNA extractions) and computer-based (bioinformatics and population genomics analysis) work in this project. Field work is not required but may be optionally included. The student will be supervised by Dr Sean Buckley, Dr Rob Davis, Dr Brenton Von Takach (Curtin University) and
April 19, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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We found a stripe-faced dunnart well outside of its known range in WA. Short paper here -->
www.publish.csiro.au/ZO/ZO23045. Photo by Josh Keen
An adorable small marsupial with a stripe of black fur running from the top of the head down to the nose, it stands on a substrate of dry bark and leaves, facing the camera and poised as if to leap away from the photographer
April 19, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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If you know someone interested in reptiles - please let them know about this opportunity!
theg-cat.bsky.social Dr. Sean Buckley @theg-cat.bsky.social · Apr 19
Are you a herper 🦎🧪student looking for a postgrad research project? Well boy do I have a project for you! Join @pezoporus.bsky.social, @certhionyx.bsky.social and I in Perth for a Masters project on connectivity and genetic diversity of two urban reptile species! May include fieldwork if desired.
Flyer describing research project titled "Navigating the urban environment: landscape genomics of two skink species in Perth." Text reads "Understanding connectivity across the urban environment is an important part of conservation management. This exciting Masters research project will combine genomic and environmental data to assess connectivity and genetic diversity in two fossorial skinks endemic to Western Australia — Buchanan’s snake-eyed skink, commonly found in urban gardens, and West-coast laterite ctenotus, restricted to remnant bushland. Comparing how these two different species move across the landscape will help inform conservation management of urban biodiversity. The student will conduct lab-based (DNA extractions) and computer-based (bioinformatics and population genomics analysis) work in this project. Field work is not required but may be optionally included. The student will be supervised by Dr Sean Buckley, Dr Rob Davis, Dr Brenton Von Takach (Curtin University) and
April 19, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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It is April here in Western Australia & we're hitting the 6 month mark since we had any meaningful rainfall.

The hills to the east of Perth are quiet, as if holding their breath, waiting for the heat to break & refreshing rains of Djeran to begin.
A deep blue sky is striated with high clouds, above the dry shrubby heathland of the Darling scarp. The low vegetation is baked to a rich yellow brown colour, with the sparse and twisted moodjar (Nuytsia floribunda) and spikey-topped balga (Xanthorrhoea preissii) standing tall.
April 8, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
Looks like WA might be witnessing the 2nd ever "forest collapse" on record right now.
Places shown in the article are all areas I've visited several times in the last 6 months & entire stands of vegetation have died between visits. Scary stuff.
#climateChange 🌏🧪🪶
April 11, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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I'm giving a talk at the WA Museum tomorrow visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/...
Meet the Museum: Mammal Discovery in WA | Western Australian Museum
Join Museum experts Jake Newman-Martin and Linette Umbrello as they take us on a mammalian adventure of the minute kind, from tiny marsupials to giant megafauna.
visit.museum.wa.gov.au
April 17, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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🏙️🌳Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin recently brought WABSI and Curtin representatives together in a forum on urban biodiversity research. Thanks to all who participated. 🏙️🌳
Read more here: popbiolgenomics.org/news/WABSIFo...
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April 17, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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🎇Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin hosted the 'Cost and Feasibility of Eradication' workshop this week. Thanks presenters Dr Dave Ramsey, Dr Michael, Scroggie, Dr Dean Anderson, and thanks our attendees for participating!🎇@benflips.bsky.social @certhionyx.bsky.social @thescrogster.bsky.social
March 22, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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📢 New paper out!
Ever wondered what's going on with the random patch of grass behind your house?
Wanted to know how much vegetation is hiding beside railways?
Our method identifies & maps these informal green spaces!
🌿🗺️ 🌏🧪
#urban #urbanNature #urbanPlanning

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Figure from the paper showing a map of the City of Darebin, Victoria, Aus with different types of informal green space identified. Examples of the different types of informal green space are shown in thumbnail images around the map: brownfield sites, utility easements, street verges, railway sidings and vacant lots.
March 10, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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🎇Join us at Curtin University this Fri 08/03 at 3pm for a seminar featuring Prof. Ben Phillips and Dr Brenton von Takach of the Population Biology and Genomics Group! 🤩🧬
More on the group here: popbiolgenomics.org
Abstracts, details, & bios in images 👇.
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March 3, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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Expressions of interest for this PhD project and scholarship opportunity with Dr Brenton von Takach and Prof. Ben Phillips close this week! please share with your networks. 🪲🪳🪰🪱👨‍🔬🧬 @certhionyx.bsky.social @benflips.bsky.social
certhionyx.bsky.social Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · Jan 18
I have a funded PhD project for someone!
It's a good mix of landscape ecology and biology with cool fieldwork, and will build skills in genomics and data analysis. Focal species are native and invasive invertebrates.
Please tell anyone who might be interested!
popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie...
February 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Pitcher plant traps have evolved at least six times, with two types found in Australia: the southwestern Cephalotus, which contains just a single species, and the tropical genus Nepenthes, which is represented by a few species (3000 km away!) in far north Queensland
Cephalotus Nepenthes
February 25, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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A shot-hole borer invasion in Perth threatens urban trees, important crops and native forests. Understanding the impacts of both the pest and its management will ensure we get the best possible outcomes in both the short and long term.
theconversation.com/australias-s...
Australia’s shot-hole borer beetle invasion has begun, but we don’t need to chop down every tree under attack
It’s a horror story unfolding in the west that could sweep across the country. Beware the shot-hole borer, an exotic pest that threatens our tree crops, plantations, urban forests and wild places.
theconversation.com
February 15, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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🎇PhD Opportunity - with Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin!🎇
Project: Understanding animal dispersal and habitat connectivity using genomic data
Supervisor: Dr Brenton von Takach
Details: popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie...
About the group here: popbiolgenomics.org
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January 18, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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📝 New quoll paper is out! 🧬
Declining populations of northern quolls will lose genetic diversity through time. If we strategically conserve at least eight populations across Australia, we can prevent the loss of > 90 % of that diversity!
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
February 7, 2024 at 3:49 AM