Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Matt is a Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow within the School of Biological Sciences. He completed his PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Rob Brooks. After that, he took up a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Basel in Switzerland with Prof. Dieter Ebert, and subsequently a Velux Foundation Fellowship at the ETH Zürich.
Research interests
The Hall research group investigates the evolutionary genetics of life's big challenges – sex, death and disease. Every organism faces the same difficulty of finding a partner, fighting off pathogens, and coping with old age – but some are better at it than others. Projects include understanding how host and pathogen genes interact to influence the severity of infectious disease; unraveling how the ecology of an organism shapes the evolution of lifespan and ageing; and, contrasting the role of males and females in the evolution of pathogen virulence.
These projects make use of a variety of species of Daphnia, commonly known as the water-flea. They are small crustaceans that inhabit a range of freshwater habitats, from coastal rock-pools to alpine lakes, and are found throughout Australia and the rest of the world. The water-flea has been studied in the context of ecology, evolution and ecotoxicology for many years and is now an emerging model system for ecological genomics and the study of gene and genome function in natural environments.
For more information, go to www.mattdhall.com.
Monash teaching commitment
BIO2010 – Data science for biologists
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Sexual conflict
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
- Infectious Disease
- Quantitative genetics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Sexual Dimorphism
- Ageing
- Life History
- Health
Network
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Mismatch between host-pathogen thermal ecology impacts adaptation to change
1/01/20 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Linking sex-specific adaptation to the evolution of infectious disease
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/11/18 → 12/11/22
Project: Research
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Investigating the causes and consequences of individual variation in constitutive innate immunity in purple-crowned fairy-wrens (Malurus coronatus coronatus)(abbr.PCFW)
Roast, M., Peters, A. & Hall, M.
10/06/16 → 28/02/17
Project: Research
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Evolution on the edge: a model system for evolution on invasion fronts
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/16 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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Does sex matter? The impact of sex differences on pathogen evolution
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/02/15 → 5/02/18
Project: Research
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Infectious disease ecology and evolution in a changing world
King, K. C., Hall, M. D. & Wolinska, J., 27 Mar 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1873, 5 p., 20220002.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Other › peer-review
Open Access -
Amino acid quality modifies the quantitative availability of protein for reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster
Ma, C., Mirth, C. K., Hall, M. D. & Piper, M. D. W., May 2022, In: Journal of Insect Physiology. 139, 5 p., 104050.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
10 Citations (Scopus) -
Host Sex Modulates the Energetics of Pathogen Proliferation and Its Dependence on Environmental Resources
Gipson, S. A. Y., Pettersen, A. K., Heffernan, L. & Hall, M. D., May 2022, In: The American Naturalist. 199, 5, p. E186-E196 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Warmer temperatures limit the effects of antidepressant pollution on life-history traits
Aulsebrook, L. C., Wong, B. B. M. & Hall, M. D., 9 Feb 2022, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 289, 1968, 9 p., 20212701.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access4 Citations (Scopus) -
An evolutionary trade-off between parasite virulence and dispersal at experimental invasion fronts
Nørgaard, L. S., Zilio, G., Saade, C., Gougat-Barbera, C., Hall, M. D., Fronhofer, E. A. & Kaltz, O., Apr 2021, In: Ecology Letters. 24, 4, p. 739-750 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
8 Citations (Scopus)