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

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Teaching interests
Dr Oxley has been the unit chair and coordinator for a variety of units offered in Science, Marine and Biomedicine undergraduate programs. Dr Oxley is passionate about sciences and enabling student learning for life outside University in professional practice, and in 2020, he developed and introduced a new Unit - SLE236 Marine Microbiology and Genomics - as part of the Bachelor of Marine Science Course (S337) which incorporates an authentic approach to learning by bringing in real-life approaches (informed from his own research experiences working in government and industry) to assess the microbiome.

Current units:
SLE236 – Marine Microbiology and Genomics
SLE234 – Microbiology
SLE254 – Genetics and Genomics
SLE314 – Research Projects

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Health and Immune Fitness of the Critically Endangered Burrunan Dolphins (Tursiops australis), assessed via immune gene markers and skin microbiome
    Grace Day - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Exploring the importance of bacteria in flystrike: An Australian context
    Madison Bone - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Host Tumour Microbiome, a tripartite interaction in Tasmanian devils
    Jeremy Felix Christophe Jeanjean - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Infectious Bursal Disease Virus in Australia: 1 Improved Diagnostics and Surveillance
    Jesse Thomas - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Multi-level Responses to High-temperature Stress in Zebrafish During EarlyDevelopment
    Tianyu Wang - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Determining Biomarkers of Chronic Thermal Stress in Fish
    Monique Adzijovski - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Elucidating the contribution of the plastisphere microbiomes on plastic degradation
    Brooke Norma Jackson - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Ecology of Sea slugs
    Kayden Verhagen - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Assessing Substrate and Water Effects on Ecklonia radiata Microbiome Assembly
    Pearl Mitchell - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Composition and Drivers of Gut Microbiomes in Reef Fish
    Geetika Sudhir Nambiar - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Dirty Crimes: Advanced Forensic Soil Analysis Techniques in Australia
    Jessica Grace Prudence Hay - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2025