Professor Shauna Murray
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University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Australia, climate change, ecological footprint, marine microalgae, ocean carbon, marine eucaryotes, marine population ecology, marine biotoxins, algal blooms, marine ecosystem, sustainabilityMedia
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I obtained my PhD in Biological Sciences in 2003 from the University of Sydney and have worked at the University of Tokyo, Japan, as a JSPS research fellow and the University of NSW as a Vice Chancellor's Fellow and more recently as an ARC APDI Fellow.I was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship in 2012 and have joined UTS as an Associate Professor and core member of The Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster (C3) where i lead the Sustainable Aquaculture Group
I research the evolution and molecular ecology of marine microbial eukaryotes and their toxins. Marine biotoxins produced by dinoflagellates, a group of marine microalgae, are amongst the most toxic substances yet recorded and can have severe detrimental impacts on a diverse range of organisms and marine ecosystems. My four year Future Fellowship will take an ecological evolutionary approach to investigating the biosynthesis of toxins in marine dinoflagellates.
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Gender:
Female
Languages besides English:
German
Last updated: 12 May 2025