Postgraduate Study

Available PhD Scholarships with stipend

Several key components to enable the establishment of a successful onshore lobster aquaculture industry will be addressed by targeted PhD research projects, particularly in the fields of molecular biology, health and social sciences.

The ARC Research Hub for Sustainable Onshore Lobster Aquaculture is currently offering multiple PhD projects investigating lobster physiology, behaviour, nutrition, molecular biology and health. Successful applicants will join a large lobster research program at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and contribute to cutting edge lobster aquaculture research. For more information please contact Associate Professor Quinn Fitzgibbon.

Position	Description
PhD	Micro-nutrient requirements of juvenile tropical (Panulirus ornatus) with reference to requirements at moulting
PhD	The development of a biological control health management strategy to prevent white leg disease (WLD) in the tropical rock lobster (TRL) Panulirus ornatus

Our Postgraduate Projects

This list shows the PhD projects underway or completed.

Team member	Description
Tara Kelly	Behavioral physiology of juvenile tropical rock lobster
Incheol Jang	Treatment of land-based aquaculture effluent using macroalgal systems
Michael Landman	Lipid class requirements and metabolism of rock lobsters.
Courtney Lewis	Investigating metabolic pathways in decapod crustaceans to inform aquaculture practices
Charles Sutherland	Use of AI in lobster aquaculture systems.
Jaime Willis	Metabolic suppression of aquatic crustaceans for live transport
Andrea Wirtz	Factorial bioenergetic model for determination of protein and energy requirements of spiny lobster juveniles in culture.
Thomas Banks	Molecular genetics and gene silencing in crustaceans
Theodore Uy	Investigating the nutritional aspects of cannibalism within crustacean aquaculture; focusing on the nutrition of cannibalism
Rachel Breslin	The feasibility of transgenerational immunity as health management in lobster aquaculture
Eleanor Spencer	The the impacts of short- and long-term salinity stress on juvenile Tropical Rock Lobsters
Eloise Bennett	Environmental regulation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) released by seaweeds
Adam Yeap	Amino acid requirements of juvenile Tropical Rock Lobster in formulated feeds
Hang Tran	Developing mono-sex technology in spiny lobsters by inducing sex change through gene silencing or chemical/thermal manipulation of the eggs.
Mengjia Jiang	Investigating healthy microbiota of the complete tropical rock lobster rearing system and developing methods for potential pathogen detection and identification