Funding
Research funding
2020 Rabbit-Free Australia Foundation
‘Developing gene driven technology for the eradication of rabbits’
2019-2021 ARC Discovery grant
‘The impact of environmental toxicants on the fertility of female animals’
2019-2022 NHMRC Targeted Call for PFAS
‘Utilising male fertility as a biomarker of health to understand the biological effects of PFAS’
2019 Monash IVF Group Research and Education Foundation
‘Establishment and validation of the exposome as a prognostic predictor of female fertility’
2019 BioSciences Seed Funding, University of Melbourne
‘Establishment and validation of the exposome as a prognostic predictor of female fertility’
2019-2021 Learning and Teaching Initiatives Grant, University of Melbourne
‘Assessment of, and for, learning: engaging students and staff to build better MCQs’
2019 Memphasys Ltd
‘Bovine embryo cultures using a novel sperm separation device’
2019 Science and Innovation Award, Australian Government
‘Improving JIVET (juvenile in vitro embryo production and transfer) outcomes in cattle’, BJ Finger (CIA)
2018 ART Lab Solution Pty, Australia
‘In vitro bovine embryo production systems’
2017 National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) equipment grant
‘Label printer and tissue homogenizer’
2016 Genea Biomedx Pty, Australia
‘Project Para- validation of sperm microfluidic designs’
2014-2017 National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) Development grant
‘Development of a novel microfluidic device to treat male infertility’.
2014-2016 Hermon Slade Foundation
‘The dark side of light: species and community level impact of artificial night lighting’.
2014-2017 Merck Serono Lectureship, Merck Serono Australia
2012-2014 Early Career Grant, University of Melbourne
‘Effects of endocrine disruptors on embryo developmental competence and metabolism’.
2012-2013 Research Collaboration Grant, University of Melbourne
‘Sorting of sperm by microfluidics: improved reproductive outcomes’.
2012-2013 Nuture Foundation, New Zealand
‘Use of next generation sequencing technology to determine the effect of ovarian ageing and stimulation regimens on the mitochondrial genome’.
2012-2013 Fertility Society of Australia (FSA)
‘The use of next generation sequencing technology to study the effect of ovarian ageing and stimulation regimens on the mitochondrial genome’.
2011-2013 UniServices Ltd, University of Auckland
‘Microfluidic sperm sorting for assisted reproductive technologies’.
2011-2012 Pearce Trust, The Liggins Institute
‘Strategies for improving reproductive technologies’.
2010-2012 MoRST Emerging Leaders Fund
‘Enhancing the efficiency of New Zealand dairy farming’.
2010-2011 Kelliher Trust Research Award
‘The role of the endometrial epithelial cells in embryo implantation’
2008-2012 Fertility Associates Research Fellowship
‘Improving the efficiency of human IVF: oocyte and embryo markers’.
2008-2013 Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST)
‘Improving cow fertility by novel nutritional strategies and epigenetic selection’.
2008-2009 Faculty Research Development Fund
‘The role of placental myostatin in the maternal – fetal metabolic dialogue’.
2007-2008 Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust
‘Impact of a high fat diet: Programming long term changes in reproductive fitness’.
2006-2007 National Research Centre for Growth and Development (NRCGD) Pilot Grant
‘Fetal programming and Forkhead transcription factors (Foxs)’
2006-2008 National Research Centre for Growth and Development (NRCGD) Pilot Grant
‘Determination of the health and physiological responses of genetically identical cloned calves in comparison with age matched normal controls’.