Laura holding a tammar wallaby joey

Laura completed a Master of Science in the Pask Lab, before undertaking a one year position as a curator of vertebrates at the Melbourne Museum.

Laura is now back in the Pask Lab to complete her PhD, and is investigating the role of non-coding DNA in convergent craniofacial evolution between the thylacine and canids.

Publications

Cook L, et al. 2019, Exposure to atrazine during puberty reduces sperm viability, increases weight gain and alters the expression of key metabolic genes in the liver of male mice. Reprod Fertil Dev. Jan 14. doi: 10.1071/RD18505.