Gillanders Aquatic Ecology Laboratory Marine Freshwater Fish

Welcome

Welcome to Professor Bronwyn Gillanders’ laboratory group at the University of Adelaide. Our research group focuses on aquatic waters (freshwater, estuarine and marine) with a strong focus on fish and cephalopods, and environmental issues. The group is part of the Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories in the School of Biological Sciences and the Environment Institute.

The Gillanders Aquatic Ecology lab group includes Postdoctoral Researchers, PhD students, and Honours Students working in freshwater and marine biology. We also have some visiting interns and undergraduate researchers. If you are interested in working with us please contact Bronwyn directly to discuss opportunities that may be available - please check out our research first to check that your interests align with ours.

News Highlights

January 2025

Welcome to the Gillanders Aquatic Ecology lab webpage and recent news.

Another year to reflect on and one to look forward to.

2024 saw a good number of researchers complete their PhDs – Vinuri, both Sophie’s and Koster had their degrees conferred and Joe has recently submitted. Solomon attended the April graduation ceremony while Koster, Vinuri and Qiaz were all at the September ceremony. We also had several Hons students complete – Danni and Janani in the mid-year round and Maddie and Lucah at the end of year. Danni has commenced a PhD in the lab and Maddie will commence in early March. Thirun commenced Hons in mid 2024 and Isaac commences in early 2025. We also have a new postdoctoral researcher, Chloe Hayes, joining the group working on a Goyder Institute funded project.

2024 saw the group produce a good number of publications which are featured on our Publications 2024 page – these included Joe’s first PhD publication plus PhD publications from Nicole, Qiaz, Sophie, Koster and Jackson. We’ve already got two publications in 2025 – one from Joe’s PhD and another from Vinuri’s Honours.

The group continued to attend plenty of conferences – World Fisheries Congress in Seattle (Bronwyn was a plenary speaker but Nina and Patrick also attended), American Fisheries Society meeting in Hawaii (where Bronwyn was inducted as an AFS Fellow), Australian Society for Fish Biology in Newcastle (Patrick and Nina). Bronwyn’s still trying to get to an ASFB conference – perhaps in 2025!

A number of us also attended Vinuri’s wedding in Sri Lanka which was pretty exciting!

We look forward to another big year ahead with some PhD completions, lots of research happening and some great publications coming out.

For other recent publications please see here for the 2024 publications or here for the 2025 ones.

For some news updates see our Blog page.

Check out our video below about the incredible science of fish ear bones made by Animate your science.