Lab Head
- Dr Kylie Robert
Honorary Research fellows
- Dr Zak Atkins – Zak’s interests are in threatened species and alpine ecology. He is a Guthega skink expert and also director of his own consultancy company “Snowline Ecology”.
- Dr Steve Griffiths – Steve’s interests are all things microbats and the use of supplementary habitat for hollow dependent wildlife.
- Dr Danielle Eastick – Danielle is another bat crazy researcher with interests spanning successful adaptation to urban environments and species responses to anthropogenic disturbance.
- Dr Kelly Williams-Kelly – Kelly is passionate about greater stick-nest rats, species conservation and translocation success
Current PhD Candidates
- Lauren Tworkowski (PhD candidate) – Thermoregulatory capabilities of Little penguins in relation to anthropogenic climate change. Supervised by Kylie Robert (La Trobe), Ursula Ellenberg (University of Otago), John Lesku (La Trobe) & Peter Dann (Phillip Island)
- Angela (Ange) Russell (PhD candidate) – The marsupial gut microbiome – Improving release outcomes by optimising disruption of host-associated microbial diversity when in care. Supervised by Kylie Robert (La Trobe), Ashley Franks, Jen Wood & Steve Petrovski (La Trobe)
- Kushini Kularatne (PhD candidate) – Feisty females: Investigating the drivers of female dominance in three endemic Australian species. Supervised by Kylie Robert (La Trobe) & Richard Peters (La Trobe)
- Angela Simms (PhD candidate) – Turtle head-starting for conservation. Supervised by James Van Dyke (La Trobe), Kylie Robert (La Trobe) & Ricky Spencer (Western Sydney)
Current Masters Candidates
- Stacey Phillips (Masters candidate) -Surviving urbanisation: determining the genetics of remnant populations of White’s skink, Liopholis whitii. Supervised by Kylie Robert (La Trobe) & Katherine Harrison (La Trobe)
Current Honours Students
- Jonathan Wright (Honours candidate) -Investigating the impacts of light pollution on ground dwelling Lycosidae spiders. Supervised by Kylie Robert (La Trobe)
Lab Manager
- Dash (Chief morale booster) Completed training under the guidance of Molly (the best dog in the world)
Robert Lab - Reproductive ecology & Conservation biology 