DrAndrew Oxley

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Deakin Centre for Marine Science

  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Deakin Centre for Marine Science
  • +61 3 522 73670 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Leading and contributing to a variety of collaborative research projects which seek to elucidate the involvement of the microbiome in host and ecosystem processes, and in developing new monitoring tools and management strategies for industry.

Current projects led by Dr Oxley:
• Establishing a basis for the gut microbiome in teleost fish diversification and adaptation.
• Investigating the relevance of the microbiome in the degradation of plastics and other materials.

Collaborative projects:
• Identifying the contribution and role of the Australian Sheep Blowfly microbiome in flystrike and its control.
• Effects of pre-hatch environmental cycles on poultry microbiomes.
• Investigating the microbiome and genetic diversity of the critically endangered Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis).
• Establishing the involvement of the microbiome in driving host response to transmissible cancer in Tasmanian Devils.
• Thermal stress and its impacts on the gut and skin microbiome of teleost fish.

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Stream 2 Building System and Analytical Capability: Advanced Ingredient Manufacturing and Functional Optimisation for Future Food and Health Applications
    17 Dec 2025 - 1 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    3-1 Provico Australia - $3,657,732.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    How do interactions between the microbiome and immune system in the eye cause dry eye disease?
    31 Jul 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    Peggy and Leslie Cranbourne Foundation - $250,000.00
  • GRANT
    Assessment of stocking success, growth, condition and host microbiota of stocked estuary perch in Victorian lakes and rivers
    1 Jul 2025 - 30 Nov 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    Victorian Fisheries Authority - LG232416 - $67,272.72
  • 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
  • GRANT
    Novel semio-chemical approach to control the Australian Sheep Blowfly
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2 - LP210200707 - $782,714.00
  • GRANT
    Novel semio-chemical approach to control the Australian Sheep Blowfly
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    Australian Wool Innovation Limited - $300,000.00
  • 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