Visiting scientist support
Eligibility
Proposed visitors should be nominated by a researcher from at least one CBA partner institutions, ie. ANU, CSIRO, UC, and plan to collaborate with researchers from these institution(s) during their time in Canberra (or other CSIRO sites).
The visiting scientist's research field/s should complement CBA’s biodiversity science focus, eg. evolutionary biology, population and ecosystem ecology, genomics, bioinformatics, and/or spatial modelling. Engagement with policy makers and/or conservation and land managers is also encouraged.
As a condition of CBA support, the visiting scientist will present an activity such as a workshop, seminar, mini symposium, round table discussion, etc. that is advertised to the CBA community (and elsewhere as appropriate). It can be held at ANU, UC or CSIRO (other local venues may also be proposed).
If required, the CBA can provide coordination support, e.g. advertising, registration, venue and flight bookings, etc.
Value
Up to $7,000 for travel and workshop/seminar related expenses.
Application deadline
Friday 20 February 2026, with activities to be held between March and November 2026. Dates can be approximate in your application.
How to apply
Using the below application form we invite you to submit to claire.stephens@anu.edu.au a short proposal (~2 pages or less) that includes:
- Inviters’ details
- Visitor's details, including date of proposed visit and research background
- Outline of workshop / seminar
- Budget
Applications will be assessed by the CBA Director and Liaison Committee.
Contact
Past CBA-funded visiting scientists
- Ivan Koludarov Workshop: Complete and accurate annotation of troublesome gene regions
- Paul Frandsen Seminar: Threading links between the silk genotype and phenotype in caddisflies, nature’s underwater architects and Workshop: Sequencing, assembling, and annotating genomes with PacBio HiFi data
- Adam Leaché Seminar: Comparative species delimitation: examples with lizards and Workshop: Multi-species Coalescent Analysis
- Oskar Hagen Seminar: From German Romanticism to Modern Computational Biodiversity Models and Workshop: Gen3sis: Simulating the evolution of biodiversity
- Bruce Walsh Seminar: Leveraging museum specimens to ask ecological questions in the era of genomics and Workshop: Detecting selection
- Emma Sherratt Seminar: Shape of Life: reading the evolutionary history of animals by measuring them and Workshop: Leveraging morphological and genomic data to elucidate evolutionary patterns
- Camille Roux Seminar: How far can genes travel in the living world? and Workshop: ABCday: Approximate Bayesian Computation in one day (and a half)
- Rudolf Myer Roundtable discussion: Advancing taxonomy discussion and Seminar: Accelerating biodiversity discovery in hyperdiverse arthropod clades with robots and Nanopore sequencing
- Gwendolyn Peyre Seminars: Climatic refugia in the coldest neotropical hotspot, the Andean páramo and Plant invasions in the northern Andes: a socio-ecological perspective
- Mario Dos Reis Seminar: Bayesian molecular clock-dating of phylogenies: fossils, genomes and uncertainty and Workshop: Bayesian molecular clock dating using genome-scale datasets
- Tracy Heath Workshop Bayesian phylogenetics and macroevolution in RevBayes
- Jeff Good Seminar: The evolution of seasonal camouflage and Workshop Population genomics for non-model species
- Alan Lemmon Seminar and Workshop: Anchored Phylogenomics
- Sasa Stefanovic Seminar: Difficult questions on reticulate evolution in Cuscuta (dodders; Convolvulaceae)
- Vicki Funk Seminar: Evolution of the Composiate in Oceania
- Scott Edwards Workshop: Phylogenomic analyses using the multispecies coalescent model
- Olivier Loudet Workshop: Genomic and phenomic tools to identify the genetic basis underlying natural variation and adaptation
- Oliver Niehuis Workshop: DNA target enrichment in phylogenomics - molecular and bioinformatic principles
- Eddie Holmes RSB Director's seminar: The Greatest Experiment in Evolution: Viral Biocontrol of Rabbits
- Alexei Drummond RSB Director's seminar: Developing Darwin’s computer and Workshop: Phylogenomics using BEAST2
- Peter Smouse Workshop: Genetic analysis for population studies
- Steve Stones-Havas Workshop: Geneious
- Joseph Heled Workshop: BEAST
