Current PhD students:
Diem Nguyen, Project: Exploring the impact of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on cereal grain nutrition.
Rucha Patil (based at the University of Melbourne), Project: Manipulation of plant-derived phytonutrients and antinutrients in bread to improve iron bioavailability.
Olivia Brunton (based at CSIRO Canberra and Charles Sturt University), Project: The potential benefits of dual placement phosphorus fertiliser application to south-eastern Australian crop species.
Current Masters students:
Martin Lambert, Project: ‘Mycrobes’ in Lunar and Martian regolith simulants: how to make soil on moons and other planets.
Completed PhD students:
2021: Matthias Salomon, Project: The role of mycorrhizas in urban agriculture systems.
2021: Cuc Tran, Project: The impact of arbuscular mycorrhizas on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling and leaching in soil.
2021: Hue Ngo, Project: Optimising phosphate supply to plant by adding mixture of organic and inorganic P sources, and the effect on mycorrhizal colonisation.
2020: Binh Tran, Project: The effect of arbuscular mycorrhizas on the growth and nutrition of important food crops.
Dr. Stephanie Watts-Fawkes 