News

March 2022 
Thanks to Rachel Cook and my wonderful collaborators from UWM, our work on MHC diversity in mule deer has been accepted for publication!

August 2022
​I've joined the Chapple Lab at Monash and will be working on the Species Expert Assessment Plan (SEAP) project to determine whether frogs impacted by the 2019-2020 bushfires in Australia qualify for listing as endangered under federal legislation


About Me

I am an evolutionary biologist with a soft spot for little brown skinks.

Main research interests:

• Hybridization
• Species delimitation
• Reptile natural history

Current projects:

• Australian frog endangered species listings
• Bell Frog diversity across native and invasive populations
• Phylogenetics of Pseudemoia spp. using Next-Generation Sequencing

Contact details
Margaret Haines
Museums Victoria
Sciences
11 Nicholson St
Carlton, VIC 3056
Australia
Email: mhaines@museum.vic.gov.au