Frank Seebacher

Frank Seebacher focuses on responses of animals to changing environments, and how these responses have evolved in space and time. His approach is integrative in that it transcends taxonomic and methodological categories, and he aims to understand the whole system from genes to behavior. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney in 1988 with an honors research project on hibernation in the Australian echidna. In his Ph.D. project at the University of Queensland (1994, with Gordon Grigg), he studied the biophysics of heat transfer that underlie behavioral thermoregulation in ectotherms, using the Australian freshwater crocodile as a model species. In recent years, he has increasingly combined field research with biochemical and molecular approaches to understand the different levels at which animals can respond to environmental variability, particularly to temperature. His research is primarily funded by grants from the Australian Research Council, and he supervises several honors and Ph.D. students working on projects ranging from nutrition in fish to endothermy in chickens.

Biography Updated on 11 May 2008

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