Dr. Karen Cheney
Karen is the Principal Investigator in the School of Biological Sciences, UQ. We closely collaborate with members of Prof. Justin Marshall’s lab in Queensland Brain Institute, also at UQ. Student supervision is split between Karen, Justin, Dr. Fabio Cortesi and Fanny in various ratios.
Dr. Naomi Green
Naomi investigates the visual systems of triggerfish and conducts behavioural trials to understanding animal perception.
Dr. Cedric van den Berg
Cedric is developing quantitative methods to analyse animal colour patterns and is interested in the function and evolution of warning signals in nudibranch molluscs.
Dr. Martin Luehrmann
Martin completed his PhD investigating the visual ecology of cardinal fish. He is currently working with us as a senior research assistant.
Dr. JP Hobbs
Dr JP Hobbs has recently arrived at UQ to continue his research, looking at human impacts on the evolution of coral reef fishes – particularly clownfish.

Valerio Tettamanti
Valerio has just commenced his PhD and is based in QBI. He is working on the molecular genetics of clownfish visual systems.
Laurie Mitchell
Laurie is investigating the visual system and ecology of anemone fish. He is also using CRISPR/CAS9 to understand the molecular genetics of opsin proteins.
Weili Chan
Weili is studying the chemical ecology of nudibranchs with the aim of understanding how they use certain compounds for protection against predators.

Carl Santiago
Carl is investigating hybridisation in anemone fishes.
Former PhD students
Dr. Anne Winters Dr. Martin Luehrmann Dr. Derek Sun Genevieve Phillips (completed 2016) Visual ecology of predator-prey relationships on the coral reef Dr. Louise Forster Dr. Fabio Cortesi
Former Masters, Honours, and Intern students
Abigail Shaughnessy (Honours 2020) Amelia Phelan (Honours 2020) Charlotte Lewis
(2019-2020 Intern)Nadia Hamilton (2019 Intern) Carl Santiago (completed November 2018) Erin Watson (Honours student) Jemma Hudson (Completed November 2018) Vivien Rothenberger (Masters student) Holly Urquhart (Completed 2017) Andrew White (Completed 2016) Dr. Derek Sun – Parasites and cleaning behaviour in damselfish Emily Guavera
(Master’s 2017)