Dr Beata Ujvari Senior Research Fellow beatau@uow.edu.au

Research Interests

Conservation and population genetics

Host –parasite interaction

Ageing and immunology (immunosenescence)

Genetic sex and caste determination

Representative Publications

Ujvari, B., T. Madsen, T. Kotenko, M. Olsson, R. Shine & Wittzell, H. 2002. Low genetic diversity threatens imminent extinction of the Hungarian meadow viper (Vipera ursinii rakosiensis). Biol. Conserv. 105: 127-130.

Madsen, T., Ujvari, B., & Olsson, M. 2004. Novel genes continue to enhance population growth of an inbred population of adders (Vipera berus). Biol. Conserv. 120:145-147.

Madsen, T., Ujvari, B., Olsson, M. & Shine, R. 2005. Paternal alleles enhance female reproductive success in tropical pythons. Mol. Ecol. 14: 1783-1787.

Ujvari, B. & Madsen, T. 2006. Age, parasites and condition affect humoral immune response in tropical pythons. Behav. Ecol. 17:20-24.

Madsen, T. & Ujvari, B. 2006. MHC Class I associates with parasite resistance and longevity in tropical pythons. J. Evol. Biol. 19: 1973-1978.

Madsen, T, Ujvari,B., Nandakumar, K.S., Hasselquist, D. & Holmdahl, R. 2006. Do "infectious" prey select for high levels of natural antibodies in tropical pythons? Evol. Ecol. 2: 271-279.

Ujvari, B., Dowton, M. & Madsen, T. 2007. Mitochondrial DNA recombination in a free-ranging Australian lizard. Biol. Lett. 3: 189–192.

Ujvari, B., Dowton, M. & Madsen, T. 2008. Population genetic structure, gene flow and sex-biased dispersal in frillneck lizards (Chlamydosaurus kingii). Mol. Ecol. 17: 3557–3564.

Ujvari, B. & Madsen, T. 2008. Complete mitochondrial genome of the frillneck lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii, Reptilia; Agamidae), another squamate with two control regions. Mitochondrial DNA 19: 465-470.

Ujvari, B. & Madsen, T. 2009. Short telomeres in hatchling snakes; age- and sex-specific telomere length dynamics in tropical pythons PloS ONE 4: e 7493-7498.

Current Students

Jason Binshuang Li (co-supervising with Dr. Nathan Lo and Prof. Benjamin Oldroyd at USyd): Genetic caste and sex determination of termites.

Future Topics for Students

Abbreviated CV

Academic Degrees

MSc Agriculture, Department of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Godollo, Hungary, 1995

Ph.D. Biology, Department of Ecology and Taxonomy, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, 2001

Academic and Research Appointments

2010-2013: Associate Lecturer and Postdoctoral fellow (School of Biol. Sci., USyd)

2008-2011: Senior honorary fellow (School of Biol. Sci., UoW)

2008-2009: Research associate (Evolutionary Biology Unit, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia)

2006-2008: Research assistant (School of Biol. Sci., UoW)

2005-2006: Honorary fellow (School of Biol. Sci., UoW)

2004-2005: Research associate (School of Biol. Sci., UoW)

2001-2004: Postdoctoral fellow (Animal Ecology Department, Univ. of Lund, Sweden) and Visiting Fellow (School of Biol. Sci., USyd)

1996-2001: PhD studies and Zoologist (Zool. Dep. Herpetological Collection, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary)