Emily Giles

Molecular Ecologist 

Role at Cawthron

Emily is a molecular ecologist in the Molecular Surveillance team of Cawthron’s Marine Biosecurity group. She uses a range of molecular techniques and -omics technologies to detect biodiversity and understand how populations and species diverge through space and time. Her research spans the fields of comparative genomics, population genomics, and microbial ecology, and is currently focused on understanding how evolutionary forces and genetic constraints contribute to organisms’ ability to adapt to environmental heterogeneity. She has been fortunate to work in a number of aquatic systems from coral reefs to the rocky intertidal.

Technical skills, experience and interests

• Omics technologies
• Bioinformatics
• Molecular laboratory techniques
• Marine invertebrate genomics

Qualifications

• PhD (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) – Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile, 2024
• MSc (Marine Science) – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, 2014