Keyne Monro

Keyne Monro is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University and an ARC Future Fellow. Her work focuses on marine evolutionary ecology, particularly how benthic marine organisms adapt to environmental changes. She investigates mechanisms linking environmental stressors to evolutionary processes, including selection pressures, heritable variation, and life history evolution. Keyne has led or contributed to multiple research projects addressing climate change impacts on marine species and ecological communities.

Her research has examined species boundaries in warming seas, thermal performance of marine organisms, and evolutionary consequences of gene interactions. Keyne collaborates internationally on projects evaluating adaptation in foundation species within global change hotspots. She has published widely in journals like Molecular Ecology and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, focusing on topics such as transgenerational plasticity, metabolic rate evolution, and genetic management of endangered species.

• Projects:
  • Principal Investigator (2020-2024) for 'Evolutionary impacts of gene interactions in rapidly changing world'
  • Chief Investigator on multiple ARC-funded projects studying climate adaptation and species boundaries
• Awards:
  • Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2020-2024)
• Grants:
  • Multiple grants supporting marine evolutionary research programs

Keyne's work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to life below water (SDG14) and climate action (SDG13). Her lab explores evolutionary solutions to global change challenges through interdisciplinary approaches combining fieldwork, experimental evolution, and genomic analysis.