Amy Newman

• Integrative Biology

• Animal biology
• Biodiversity
• Environmental health
• Neuroscience
• One health

• Animal and plant conservation
• Ecology and evolution
• Ecosystem services
• Natural resource management
• Physiology

Research in my lab is focused on understanding how early life environments can affect stress levels in organisms, especially birds, squirrels, and butterflies. This is important because stress can influence the physiology, behaviour, and fitness of these organisms. We use a variety of approaches from large-scale manipulations in the wild to controlled laboratory experiments.

We study proximate and ultimate questions around stress ecophysiology. We combine field studies and laboratory analyses to examine the persistent effects of early life stress on physiology, behaviour and fitness. We use a variety of approaches from large-scale manipulations in the wild to controlled laboratory experiments. I am excited by integrative questions that span levels of biological organization and students in the lab are encouraged to explore questions from evolutionary, ecological, physiological and molecular perspectives.

University of Queensland, Deakin University, University of Adelaide, University of Sydney, University of Wollongong (Australia); University of Bern (Switzerland); University of Michigan, Williams College, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation (USA); University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa); University of Exeter (UK).

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