Dr Treena Burgess
BAgSc (Hons) PhD (Biol)

Program for Australian Tree Health
School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology,
Murdoch University,
Western Australia, 6150

Phone: 61 8 9360 7537
Email: tburgess@murdoch.edu.au

Experience & Areas of Research:

• 2003 - present: Post Doctoral Fellow (Murdoch University,WA)
  New and emerging pathogens threatening the biodiversity of Australia' s eucalypts
• Jan 2002-Dec 2002: Post Doctoral Fellow (Murdoch University, WA)
  Population genetics of Botyrosphaeria spp associated with native and planted eucalypts in Western Australia
• Jan 2001-Dec 2001: Post Doctoral Fellow (Murdoch University, WA)
  Investigating the role of soluble metal silicates as agricultural fungicides
• Jan 1999-Dec 2000: Post Doctoral Fellow (FABI, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa)
  Population diversity of the pine pathogen/endophyte Sphaeropsis sapinea and plantation disease diagnostics
• March 1995-June 1998: Post Doctoral Fellow, (Murdoch University, WA)
  The role of temporary flooding and low oxygen levels on the biochemical and histological responses of Eucalyptus marginata to Phytophthora cinnamomi
• Sept-Dec 1994: Research Assistant (CSIRO Division of Forestry, WA)
  Development of a rapid screening protocol to determine the pathogenicity of Phytophthora cinnamomi isolates.
• June 1986-June 1989: Experimental Scientist, (CSIRO Division of Forestry, WA)
  The selection and manipulation of ectomycorrhizal fungi for plantation eucalypts in Western Australia

Teaching and Professional Development :
I have had extensive experience in the preparation and presentation of talks at various conferences and I have given many seminars and held workshops. At Murdoch, I have supervised many students in ISC' s and honours successfully. Whilst in South Africa, I was responsible for training many African students in the basics of molecular biology and population genetics. I can compile and assimilate information rapidly which has been very useful as I have moved into new research areas.

• Supervision of Honours, Masters and PhD students
• Senior Editor of Australasian Plant Pathology (from Dec 2003)
• Referee for plant pathology journals (Mycological Research, Australasian Plant Pathology, Plant Pathology)
• Thesis examination
  

Education:

• PhD (Biol): Feb 1991-Feb 1995, (Murdoch University, WA - Six months of the project was conducted at INRA, Nancy, France)
  Changes in protein biosynthesis associated with the development of Pisolithus-Eucalyptus grandis ectomycorrhizas
• BAgSc (Hons): Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Hons), University of Tasmania
  Awarded the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science Prize in 1985
  

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