Associate ProfessorCatherine Grueber

BSc, MSc, PhD (Otago)

Broadly, Catherine's work reveals how evolutionary and population processes affect individual- and population-level genetic diversity of small populations. In doing so, she aims to develop new techniques for measuring and mitigating loss of diversity in conservation. Catherine's technical strengths lie in molecular population genetics, understanding the evolutionary consequences of genetic diversity loss (such as impacts of captive breeding, inbreeding depression, genetic rescue, and evolution of immune-gene diversity), and modelling approaches to hypothesis testing in evolutionary genetics.