Biography
Kate has a Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience and PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia. She is passionate about using population genetics and genomics to investigate changing genetic dynamics for the purposes of improving conservation outcomes for species and ecosystems. In the James Lab, Kate is working on investigating spatial and temporal population dynamics to manage outbreaking insect species. Outside of the lab Kate is an amateur musician and fibre artist.
Education
The University of Sydney
Doctor of Philosophy (Science)The University of Sydney
Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience
Publications
Al Rawahi, Q., Mijangos, J. L., Khatkar, M. S., Al Abri, M. A., AlJahdhami, M. H., Kaden, J., Senn, H., Brittain, K., & Gongora, J. (2022). Rescued back from extinction in the wild: past, present and future of the genetics of the Arabian oryx in Oman. Royal Society Open Science, 9(3), 210558–210558. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210558
Brittain, K., Ray, D. A., & Gongora, J. (2020). Crocodilian Genome Advances. In Conservation Genetics of New World Crocodilians (pp. 185–202). Springer International Publishing AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56383-7_8
Cao, R., Somaweera, R., Brittain, K., FitzSimmons, N. N., Georges, A., & Gongora, J. (2020). Genetic structure and diversity of Australian freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) from the Kimberley, Western Australia. Conservation Genetics, 21(3), 421–429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-020-01259-5