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Associate ProfessorAnneke Veenstra

Honorary Associate Professor

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

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  • Honorary Associate Professor
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • +61 3 925 17667 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cecidomyiid gall midges - biology, taxonomy and phylogeny

Plant-insect-fungi interactions

Knowledge Areas
Taxonomy and biology of invertebrates focusing on cecidomyiids and myriapods

Aquatic ecology

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Investigating interactions within co-evolving communities: comparing influence and response among galling midges, their host plants and fungal associates.
    1 Sep 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    ESA - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - 20 571 098 795 - $1,500.00
  • GRANT
    Investigating a co-evolving community of interactions: gall midges, plants, fungi and parasitic wasps
    13 Nov 2017 - 30 Jun 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Veenstra A,
    • Orchard A
    ESA - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment - 20 571 098 795 - $4,010.00
  • GRANT
    Multi kingdom taxonomy: uncovering the diversity and specificity of gall inducing midges, microfungi and parasitoids associated with chenopod scrubland plants
    15 Feb 2016 - 14 Feb 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Veenstra A,
    • Lebel T,
    • Kolesik P
    Australian Entomological Society - Research - $4,545.45