How do you control insect pests without damaging biodiversity?
pest-specific insecticides
Specifly
The Robin Lab
Charles Robin
Address:
Invertebrate Genetics Laboratory
Building 184
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
E-mail: crobin@unimelb.edu.au
Current position
Senior Lecturer
School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne
Associate member of Melbourne Integrative Genomics
Subject Co-ordinater of:
GENE30001: Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics
GENE30004: Genetic Analysis
Education
Ph.D.
The Australian National University.
Feb. 1999
Graduate School of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics.
Supervisors:
John Oakeshott, Division of Entomology, CSIRO
Robyn Russell, Division of Entomology, CSIRO
David Rowell, Department of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University
Thesis : The Evolution of the alpha-Esterase Gene Cluster of Drosophila.
B.Appl. Sci. (hons)
University of Technology, Sydney.
1990
Supervisor:
Prof. Robert Raison
Thesis : The Characterization of a Human Immunoglobulin Gene.
B.Sc
The University of Sydney
1987-1989
Majors in Genetics and Ecology.
2010 - present
2010 - present
Other Positions
Lecturer
2005 - 2012
The Genetics Department, the University of Melbourne.
Senior Research Fellow
2000 - 2005
At the Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research (CESAR) with Dr. Philip Batterham and Dr. David Heckel. Genetics Department, the University of Melbourne.
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
1997-2000
In the laboratory of Prof. Charles Langley, Center for Population Biology, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA. Funded on a collaborative project with Prof. Trudy Mackay (North Carolina State University).
Research Assistant
1991-1992
With Prof. R.L. Raison, The Immunobiology Unit, The University of Technology, Sydney.