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Dr. Laura Grogan is a Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Science at the University of Queensland's School of the Environment, specializing in wildlife epidemiology and conservation. She leads the Biodiversity Health Research Team, focusing on mitigating threats to biodiversity through research on wildlife diseases like chytridiomycosis and koala chlamydiosis. Her work bridges individual pathogenesis and population-level impacts, with a focus on amphibian and koala health.
Education: BSc(Hons) in Veterinary Medicine and BVSc(Hons) from the University of Sydney, followed by a PhD in Veterinary Epidemiology from James Cook University.
Research interests include understanding disease dynamics in wildlife populations, conservation strategies for endangered species (e.g., Fleay’s barred frog), and evaluating management interventions. She has secured over $1.3 million in research funding, including an ARC DECRA (2019-2023) for studying infection tolerance in amphibians.
Key awards include the 2020 J G Russell Award (top DECRA awardee) and the 2019 Barry L Munday Recognition Award. Her 15+ recent publications span immunology, ecology, and conservation applications of disease research. She supervises PhD/Master’s projects on topics like amphibian immunity, fire-chemical impacts, and koala health.
Her Biodiversity Health Research Team collaborates across universities, combining fieldwork, lab analyses, and modeling to inform conservation policies. Current projects include developing vaccines for chytrid resistance and assessing firefighting chemical effects on endangered species.
