ProfessorBeata Ujvari

Professor

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences

  • Professor
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Being an evolutionary ecologist, my research focuses on the interaction
between organisms and their environment and these effects on organismal
fitness. The particular aim of my research is to explore the significance of
genetic and epigenetic organismal responses to both macro- and micro
environmental challenges.

Knowledge Areas
Genetics, evolutionary ecology, conservation biology, immunology

Projects
Visit the following link for detailed info on projects:

http://wildgenesgroup.com/

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Seascape Epidemiology: uncovering the Diversity, Distribution, and Ecological Consequences of Transmissible Cancer in Australian bivalves
    1 Jul 2026 - 30 Jun 2029
    People funded by this grant:
    Hermon Slade Foundation - Project Grant - HSF26044 - $88,334.00
  • GRANT
    STUDENT APPLICATION Investigating the metastatic potential of DFT1 and DFT2 using zebrafish xenograft essay
    26 Jun 2026 - 25 Jun 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    University of Tasmania - Tasmanian Devil Grant 2023 - $24,800.00
  • GRANT
    Tracking Transmissible Tumours on the Move: Zebrafish Xenografts to reveal the DFT Metastatic Cascade
    1 Jun 2026 - 30 May 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Beata Ujvari
    University of Tasmania - Tasmanian Devil Grant 2023 - $75,000.00
  • GRANT
    STUDENT APPLICATION: Spread and conquer, how do cancers transmit between and within Tasmanian devils
    13 Mar 2025 - 30 Jun 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    ESA - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - 20 571 098 795 - F2025/0211 - $8,500.00
  • GRANT
    STUDENT APPLICATION: Investigating tumour microbiome of Devil Facial Tumour transmissible cancers affecting Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)
    14 Aug 2024 - 19 May 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    ESA - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - 20 571 098 795 - $17,000.00
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Friends or foes, do microbes drive host responses to transmissible cancers?
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment Deakin University23 Feb 2024 - 23 Feb 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ugon J,
    • Oxley A,
    • Mammadov M,
    • Ujvari B,
    • Thomas F
  • GRANT
    The metastatic paradox of transmissible cancers
    19 Feb 2024 - 18 Feb 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    University of Tasmania - Tasmanian Devil Grant 2023 - $49,700.00
  • GRANT
    Contact networks, immunity and evolution in competing cancer epidemics
    21 Mar 2023 - 20 Mar 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hamede R,
    • Fountain-Jones N,
    • Ujvari B,
    • Thomas F,
    • ROCHE B
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP230100162 - $46,500.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    The battle of tumours: growth kinetics and competition of DFT1 and DFT2.
    1 Mar 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Beata Ujvari
    The Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique - $4,801.75
  • GRANT
    STUDENT APPLICATION - Mitochondrial inheritance and recombination in wild and farmed mussels
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    ESA - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - 20 571 098 795 - $500.00
  • GRANT
    Student Application - What in the devil makes them susceptible to cancer?
    19 Jul 2022 - 29 Feb 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    ESA - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - 20 571 098 795 - $5,400.00
  • GRANT
    STUDENT APPLICATION: Investigating the microbiome and genetic diversity of the critically endangered Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis)
    27 Jun 2022 - 27 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    ESA - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - 20 571 098 795 - $13,050.00
  • GRANT
    The battle of tumours: growth kinetics and competition of DFT1 and DFT2
    1 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    DPIPWE Dr Eric Guiler Tasmanian Devil Research Grant - $25,000.00
  • GRANT
    Contagious diseases in Australian bivalves
    15 Apr 2021 - 30 Apr 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Ecological Society Australia - Student Research Award - $6,695.00
  • GRANT
    The battle of tumours: competition, ecological and evolutionary interactions of two transmissible cancers and its unique host.
    1 Dec 2020 - 1 Jun 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Beata Ujvari
    The Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique - $47,959.35
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    International associated laboratory (LIA) - CANECEV Agreement
    1 Oct 2020 - 30 Sep 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Beata Ujvari
    The Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique - $28,091.88
  • GRANT
    Natural selection and the Tasmanian devil
    18 Apr 2019 - 25 Apr 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hamede R,
    • Ujvari B,
    • Thomas F
    ARC Linkage - Projects - LP170101105 - $90,000.00
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Genetic analysis for the conservation management of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot and the management of the feral cat population on French Island.
    20 Feb 2019 - 30 Apr 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ujvari B,
    • Parrott M,
    • Coetse A
    Zoos Victoria - CONTR2019/00331 - $28,000.00
  • GRANT
    Genetic and phenotypic adaptations to a transmissible cancer, the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease
    30 Nov 2017 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ujvari B,
    • Raven N
    ESA - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - 20 571 098 795 - $5,625.00
  • GRANT
    Nature's solution, do immunoglobulins fight cancer in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)?
    19 Jun 2017 - 18 Jun 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    Save the Tasmanian Devil Program - Tasmanian Government - $33,264.00
  • GRANT
    Understanding the role of migrants in pathogen dispersal: gut microbiome diversity across time and space in a long-distance migrant
    23 Oct 2015 - 30 Nov 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    ESA - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endownment - HOLSW2015-2-F112 - $5,000.00