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
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Mismatch between host-pathogen thermal ecology impacts adaptation to change
Hall, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
1/01/20 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Linking sex-specific adaptation to the evolution of infectious disease
Hall, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
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. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Peters, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Hall, M. (Chief Investigator (CI))
10/06/16 → 28/02/17
Project: Research
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Evolution on the edge: a model system for evolution on invasion fronts
Hall, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
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
Hall, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/02/15 → 5/02/18
Project: Research
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Pharmaceutical pollution alters the cost of bacterial infection and its relationship to pathogen load
Aulsebrook, L. C., Wong, B. B. M. & Hall, M. D., 10 Jan 2024, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 291, 2014, 9 p., 20231273.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
The hidden costs of resistance: Contrasting the energetics of successfully and unsuccessfully fighting infection
Hall, M. D., Phillips, B. L., White, C. R. & Marshall, D. J., Apr 2024, In: Functional Ecology. 38, 4, p. 714-723 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
Assessing the role of family level variation and heat shock gene expression in the thermal stress response of the mosquito Aedes aegypti
Ware-Gilmore, F., Novelo, M., Sgrò, C. M., Hall, M. D. & McGraw, E. A., 27 Mar 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1873, 9 p., 20220011.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access16 Citations (Scopus) -
Can pharmaceutical pollution alter the spread of infectious disease? A case study using fluoxetine
Aulsebrook, L. C., Wong, B. B. M. & Hall, M. D., 27 Mar 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1873, 11 p., 20220010.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access6 Citations (Scopus) -
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 Access7 Citations (Scopus)