Our Lab Team
Our Lab Team
Prof Justin
Marshall
Marshall Lab Head JUSTIN is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the Queensland Brain Institute with affiliated professorships in the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Biomedical Sciences. He leads the Sensory Neurobiology Group (Marshall Lab).
Post Doc
Post Doc
Dr Wen-Sung
Chung
Post Doc WEN-SUNG is interested in cephalopod diversity and their sensory ecology. His current research is continuing to describe and explain the new retinal design elements, and undertaking more behavioural observations on both shallow and deep-living species, large and small. He is co-author on a new book about Taiwanese cephalopods.
Dr Fabio
Cortesi
Post Doc FABIO is a fish fanatic. He is leading the charge into two areas; visual ecology and evolution of colour vision in reef fish. He uses cutting edge transcriptomics and hand nets and buckets in his work.
Dr Fanny
de Busserolles
Post Doc FANNY‘s main research interests lay in visual ecology, sensory systems, marine biology and deep-sea ecology /biology/diversity. She is particularly fascinated by the deep-sea environment and how its inhabitants have adapted to see in dim light conditions and for viewing bioluminescence.
Dr Martin Luehrmann
Post Doc Martin recently finished his PhD investigating visual system evolution and ecology of cardinalfishes. He is continuing his work on reef fish visual ecology by studying the molecular basis of colour vision in anemonefish, triggerfish, and soldier- and squirrelfish.
Dr Samuel
Powell
Post Doc SAMUEL works on applying what we learn about marine vision to engineering applications. His interests lie in optical sensors, imaging, and their applications.
Dr Sara Mae
Stieb
Post Doc SARA‘s research focus lies in animal communication and sensory processing. In particular, she is interested in vision in both vertebrates and invertebrates and how animals perceive their environment, how evolutionary forces shape sensory systems, and how flexible visual systems cope with varying visual needs.
PhD Students
PhD Students
Lily
Fogg
PhD Student LILY is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Justin Marshall and Dr Fanny de Busserolles. She is exploring the development of vision in fish with contrasting habitats and lifestyles and how extraordinary ecological changes over a fish’s lifetime can shape and colour its visual system.
Naomi
Green
PhD Student NAOMI a PhD student under the supervision of Karen Cheney, Justin Marshall and Katrina McGuigan is investigating fish colour vision and predator psychology. Her primary fish model is the triggerfish and she is getting them to do colour vision tests.
Heather Middleton
PhD Student HEATHER is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Justin Marshall and Rob Capon focussing on the olfactory systems of elasmobranchs.
Gabriella
Scatà
PhD Student GABRIELLA loves squid and is hoping to understand their language out in the field. How do squid talk to each other and what makes them the best invertebrate predator on the planet?
Amy
Streets
PhD Student AMY is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Justin Marshall and Miriam Henze and is focussing on how stomatopods process visual signals within their complex retinas.
Valerio
Tettamanti
PhD Student VALERIO is currently a visiting MSc student and a prospective PhD student under the supervision of Prof Justin Marshall, Dr Fabio Cortesi, and Dr Fanny de Busserolles. He is investigating how developement shapes the visual system of the spotted unicornfish and opsin genes evolution in surgeonfish.
Cedric van den Berg
PhD Student CEDRIC is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Simon Bloomberg, Prof John Endler, Prof Justin Marshall and Dr Karen Cheney. He is looking at the function of colour patterns in a number of animal systems including nudibranchs and fish.
Hong Vo
PhD Student HONG is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Justin Marshall focussing on Stomatopod vision.
Laurie Mitchell
PhD Student Laurie is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Justin Marshall, Karen Cheney and Fabio Cortesis focussing on Clownfish vision.
Ching-Wen Wang
PhD Student Ching-Wen is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Justin Marshall and Wen-Sung Chung focussing on Stomatopod vision.
Lab Help
Lab Help
Other Staff
Diana
Kleine
CoralWatch Manager DIANA is the CoralWatch Project Manager (Education) and the co-author and designer of the book “Coral Reefs and Climate Change”. She is a superb graphic artist.
Dr Monique
Grol
Project Manager MONIQUE has just joined the CoralWatch team as manager and coordinator. She is amazingly well organised, quite Dutch but still very nice.
Dr
Krisantini
Translator/Indonesian Consultant DR KRISANTINI is our invaluable contact, friend and collaborator in Indonesia and here at UQ. She has helped roll out CoralWatch in Indonesia and set up workshops and both university and government visits to that beautiful country.
Collaborators
Collaborators
Professor Tom Cronin – The University of Maryland, Baltimore Country, USA
Professor Roy Caldwell – University of California Berkeley, USA
Professor Sonke Johnsen – Duke University
Dr Karen Carleton, University of Maryland College Park, USA
A/Prof Viktor Gruev – Advanced Sensors Research Laboratory – Washington University in St. Louis
Professor Roger Hanlon –MBL Woods Hole, USA
Professor Daniel Osorio – University of Sussex, UK
Professor Don Douglas – City University, UK
Professor Misha Vorobyev – University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Prof Dan-Eric Nilsson and Prof Eric Warrant – The Lund Vision Group, The University of Lund, Sweden
Dr Tsyr-Hue Chiou (Short) – National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Professor Hans-Jochen Wagner – University of Tuebingen, Germany
Professor Shaun Collin – UWA
Professor Julian Partridge – UWA
Associate Professor Nathan Hart – UWA
Professor David Hunt – UWA
Professor Jochen Zeil – ANU
Associate Professor Tom Cribb
Dr Lexa Grutter
Emeritus Professor Jack Pettigrew
Professor Shuart Phinn
Dr Ulirike Siebeck
Emeritus Professor David Vaney
Marshall Lab Alumni
Marshall Lab Alumni
- Hing Ang
- Mathilde Bue
- Cassie Bryant
- Trent Brooks-Richards
- Dr Conner Champ
- Dr Tsyr-Huei Chiou
- Dr Angela Dean
- Dr Andy Dunstan
- Will Feeney
- Dr Adrian Flynn
- Dr Kerstin Fritsches
- Alejhandra Lopez Galan
- Dr Yakir Gagon
- Dr Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
- Kylie Grieg
- Fran Hausmann
- Dr Kyra Hay
- Dr Miriam Henze
- Dr Martin How
- Dr Sonja Kleinlogel
- Ian Leiper
- Dr Tom Lisney
- Dave Logan
- Dr Lydia Mathger
- Eva McClure
- Kylie McPherson
- Dr Sara Ostlund-Nilsson
- Mickey Pascoe
- Dr Meri Peach
- Jim Peereboom
- Dr Genevieve A.C. Phillips
- Elisa Pietzker
- Dr Vincenzo Pignatelli
- Elise Roberts
- Vivien Rothernburger
- Dr Qamar Schuyler
- Dr Ulirike Siebeck
- Niklas Simon
- Dr Charlotta Skogh
- Shanee Stopnitzky
- Dr Chris Talbot
- Melitta Tanzer
- Rachel Templin
- Dr Hanne Thoen
- Holly Urquhart
- Dr Misha Vorobyev
- Dr Samantha Waller
- Jolly Yang