BSc (Hons), PhD
Research Associate
Rob has collaborated with Janet on dugong studies since 1998. He has extensive experience in collecting field data on marine mammals in different parts of the world. Janet and Rob first met in Hawaii in 1985 on a humpback whale research project. His PhD on population genetics of southern elephant seals was conducted at UQ. More recently Rob spends his time drinking coffee, reading the paper, and doing far too much as secretary of his local surf club. On the dugong project, his main roles are boat driving, dugong catching, offering dubious advice on dugong genetic studies, and Kilkenny drinking.
Key papers
 Slade RW. 1992. Limited MHC polymorphism in the southern elephant seal: Implications for MHC evolution and marine mammal population biology. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B249, 163-171
Slade RW, Moritz C, Heideman A, Hale PT. 1993. Rapid assessment of single-copy nuclear DNA variation in diverse species. Molecular Ecology 2, 359-373.
Slade RW, Mayer WE (1995) The expressed class II alpha-chain genes of the marsupial major histocompatibility complex belong to placental mammal gene families. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 12, 441-450.
Slade RW, Moritz C, Hoelzel AR, Burton HR (1998) Molecular population genetics of the southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina. Genetics, 149, 1945-1957.
Linn ML, Gardner J, Warrilow D, Darnell G, McMahon C, Field I, Hyatt A, Suhrbier A, Slade RW (2001) Arbovirus of marine mammals: a new alphavirus isolated from the elephant seal louse, Lepidophthirus macrorhini. Journal of Virology, 75, 4103-4109.
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