Dr Philip Matthews – ARC DECRA Research Fellow
After completing his PhD at the University of Adelaide, Phil spent three years at UQ in the Evolutionary Physiology lab as an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-2011) before returning to Adelaide for a year. He then returned to UQ in 2012 as an ARC DECRA Fellow to examine the mechanistic basis of gas exchange in insects. He is now (July 2014) an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.
Dr Natalie Schimpf – Honours 2008, PhD 2013
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2013) Discontinuous gas exchange exhibition is a heritable trait in speckled cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26: 1588-1597
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2012) Cockroaches that exchange respiratory gases discontinuously survive food and water restriction. Evolution 66: 597-604
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2012) Standard metabolic rate is associated with gestation duration, but not clutch size, in speckled cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea. Biology Open 1: 1185-1191
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D., Wilson, R.S. and White, C.R. (2009) Cockroaches breathe discontinuously to reduce respiratory water loss. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 2773-2780
Dr Taryn Crispin – Honours 2009, PhD 2014.
Crispin, T.S. and White, C.R. (2013) The effect of thermal acclimation on organ mass, tissue respiration and allometry in Leichhardtian river prawns, Macrobrachium tolmerum (Riek, 1951). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 86: 470-481
Aidan Janetzki – Honours 2014/2015
Metabolic plasticity in tropical ectotherms
Lauren Mulkearns – Honours 2014/2015
The influence of social dominance on feeding preference in the speckled cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea
Rebecca Yaun – Honours 2014/2015
Interactive effects of diet and sleep on survival strategies in the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea
Lauren Harrison – Honours 2013
The consequences of metabolic depression on the specific dynamic action of the speckled cockroach, Nauphoeta cinerea
Jacinta Kong – Honours 2013
The effect of temperature on the interspecific and intraspecific body mass-metabolic rate scaling relationship: Testing the Metabolic Theory of Ecology
Jordan Phoenix – Honours 2013
The effect of chronic cold exposure on daily energy expenditure and the metabolic cost of locomotion
Niky Wu – Honours 2013
Wu, N.C., Alton, L.A., Clemente, C.J., Kearney, M.R. and White, C.R. (2015) Morphology and burrowing energetics of semi-fossorial skinks (Liopholis). Journal of Experimental Biology 218: 2416-2426
Mischa Turschwell – Honours 2012
Turschwell, M.P. and White, C.R. (2016) The effects of laboratory housing and spatial enrichment on brain size and metabolic rate in the eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki. Biology Open 5: 205-2010
Tom Callaghan – Honours 2012
Sex dependence of acclimation responses in eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki
Hamish Bartrim – Honours 2010
Bartrim, H., Matthews, P.G.D., Lemon, S. and White, C.R. (2014) Oxygen induced tracheal plasticity alters the exhibition of discontinuous gas exchange cycles in the speckled cockroach (Nauphoeta cinerea). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 184: 977-990
Christian Hart – Honours 2010
The effect of pH on the metabolic rate in mosquitofish.
Lucy Merritt – Honours 2009/2010
Merritt, L., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2013) Performance correlates of resting metabolic rate in garden skinks Lampropholis delicata. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 183: 663-673
Cameron Schofield – Honours 2009/2010
Effects of oxygen availability on the metabolic allometry of cane toads Bufo marinus.
Fabian Vaca – Honours 2008
Vaca, H.F. and White, C.R. (2010) Environmental modulation of metabolic allometry in ornate rainbowfish Rhadinocentrus ornatus. Biology Letters. 6: 136-138
