Dr Rebecca Jordan
Postdoctoral Fellow - Science
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Biography
How can we manage our natural areas to support adaptability to environmental change? Dr Rebecca Jordan's research aims to contribute to this large and complex question by investigating genetic diversity and adaptation within trees and applying this knowledge to conservation strategies under climate change.
Dr Rebecca has a background in population genetics from her Honours project and later work on projects investigating genetic diversity and structure in threatened Australian plants. Utilising the power of next-generation sequencing technologies, she now applies population and landscape genomic approaches to investigate genetic diversity in far greater depth as well as evidence of environmental adaptation. Through this she has been involved in projects working on several organisms including trees, platypus and coral.
Her PhD and now Postdoctoral Fellowship focus on investigating genomic evidence of climate adaptation in eucalypt species and how we could use this knowledge to assess the potential vulnerability of natural sites to climate change as well as inform seed sourcing for revegetation in an uncertain future.
Professional Areas
Current Roles
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Climate adaptation and future adaptability in eucalypts
Academic Qualifications
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2017
PhD
University of Melbourne -
2001
B. Antarctic Studies (Hons)
University of Tasmania -
2000
B. App. Biol. (App. Biology / Biotechnology)
RMIT University
Professional Experiences
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2017-2017
Biodiversity Conservation Consultant (Genomics)
Cesar Consulting -
2016-2016
Research Assistant (Bioinformatics)
University of Queensland -
2011-2013
Research Assistant (Conservation Genetics)
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
