Staff profile

Dr Mike Westerman

Adjunct Professor

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Molecular Sciences
Department of Genetics

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc, PhD, DSc (Birmingham)

Membership of professional Associations

Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Victoria, Member of Australian Mammal Society, Member of Genetics Society of Australasia

Area of study

Genetics

Recent Publications

 M.Westerman, B.P.Kear, K. Aplin, R.W. Meredith, C. Emerinf, M.S. Springer. (2012)  Phy;ogenetic relationships of living and recently extinct bandicoots based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62: 97-108.

R.W. Meredith, J.E Janecka, J. Gatesy, O.A. Ryder, C.R Fisher, E.C. Teeling, A, Goodbla, E. Eizirik, T.L.L. Simao, T. Stadler, D.L. Robosky, R.L. Honeycutt, J.L. Flynn, C.M. Ungram, C. Steiner, T.L. Williams, T.J. Robinson, A. Burke-Herrick, M. Westerman, N. Ayoub, M.S. Springer, W.J. Murphy.  (2012)  Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification.  Science. 334: 521-524.

M. Westerman, R.W. Meredith, M.S. Springer.  (2010).  Cytogenerics Meets Phylogenetics: A review of karyotype evolution in Diprotodontian marsupials.  Journal of Heredity. doi:10.1093/jhered/esq076.

R.W. Meredith, M.A. Mendoza, K.R. Roberts, M. Westerman, M.S. Springer.  (2010)  A Pgylogeny and timescale for the evolution of Pseudocheiridae (Marsupialia: Diprotodontia) in Australia and New Guinea.  Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 17: 75-99.

R. W. Meredith, C. Krajewski, M. Westerman, M.S. Springer.  (2009).  Relationships and divergence times among the orders and families of Marsupialia.  In: 'Papers on geologyVertebrate paleontology and Biostratigraphy"  Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin. 65: 383-406.

R.W. Meredith, M. Westerman, M.S. Springer.  (2009).  A phylogeny od Diprotodontia (Marsupialia) based on sequences for five nuclear genes.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51:554-571.

Research projects

1. Molecular evolution of Peramelemorphs.

2. Molecular evoluion of Diprotodontian Marsupials.

3.  Evolutionary relationships of Dasyuromorphia.