About
Various roles at AIMS:
2014 - present Development of strategic research and effective solutions for the management and control of Crown of Thorns Starfish.
2014 - present Manager of the AIMS Pigment Analysis Facility
2013 - present Laboratory Manager
2011 - 2015 Biophysical oceanography of Great Barrier Reef and North West Shelf. Enzymatic processes as indicators of growth, grazing and respiration.
2008 - 2014 Temperature tolerance of coral symbionts
2008 - 2011 Fate of organic matter in the Central Great Barrier Reef
2005 - 2012 Marine Monitoring Program. Algal pigments as indicators for water quality.
1994 - 2005 Marine Bio-discovery. Spanning many aspects of this project including assay design and development, chemical purification, field collection and curation.
Education
1994 - BSc (Hons)
1993 - BSc
Molecular methods for detection for Acanthaster planci (Crown of Thorns Starfish) in the marine environment.
Environmental DNA monitoring
Use of algal pigments for chemotaxonomy and as bioindicators
Development of biochemical indicators for biological oceanography
Uthicke, S., Lamare, M. & Doyle, J.R. (2018) eDNA detection of corallivorous seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris) outbreaks on the Great Barrier Reef using digital droplet PCR. Coral Reefs. doi: 10.1007/s00338-018-1734-6