Duncan Jardine
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
School of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Sciences
I am a PhD student in Professor Andrew Lowe's lab group. I am mart of the Timber Tracking team.
My PhD is based on the use of DNA and genetic methods to help monitor and control illegal logging of valuable timber species. As part of this i have been involved in the development of a universal DNA extraction protocol for wood and timber samples. I have also developed a set of SNP markers that can be used to identify the origin of Ayous (Triplochiton scleroxylon) an economically important tree species from tropical west Africa
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Education
Date Institution name Country Title — James Cook University Australia Bachelor of Environmental Science — James Cook University Australia Graduate Diploma of Research Methods (Plant Sciences) -
Research Interests
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Journals
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Conference Items
Year Citation 2015 Jardine, D. I., Dormontt, E. E., Gerlach, J., van dijk, J. K., Degen, B., & Lowe, A. J. (2015). Genographic mapping of an African tropical Hardwood - application to DNA tracking. Poster session presented at the meeting of World Forestry Congress. Durban, South Africa. 2014 Jardine, D. I. (2014). DNA to the Rescue: Development of genetic techniques for use in the detection of illegal logging of valuable timber species. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australian and New Zealand Forensic Sciences Society. Adelaide, Australia. -
Patents
Year Citation 2015 Lowe, A. J., Jardine, D. I., Cross, H., Degen, B., Schindler, L., & Holtken, A. M. (2015). WO/2015/070279A1, A Method of Extracting Plant Nucleic Acids from Lignified Plant Tissue. Australia. -
Datasets
Year Citation 2016 Baruch, Z., Christmas, M., Breed, M. F., Guerin, G. R., Caddy-Retalic, S., McDonald, J., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2016). Leaf trait associations with environmental variation in the wide-ranging shrub Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (Sapindaceae) Part 1: Latitude.
2016 Baruch, Z., Christmas, M., Breed, M. F., Guerin, G. R., Caddy-Retalic, S., McDonald, J. T., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2016). Leaf trait associations with environmental variation in the wide-ranging shrub Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (Sapindaceae) Part 2: Elevation.
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2012 - 2014 Member Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity (ACEBB) management committee University of Adelaide Australia -
Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2016 - ongoing — Society for Wildlife Forensic Sciences — 2008 - ongoing Member Australasian Systematic Botanical Society Australia
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