Overview
Background
Andrew is a population biologist in the School of the Environment. A broad goal of his research is to understand the effect of environmental variability on the stability of ecological communities. At the same time, in order to deliver on this broader goal, he is working to scale up understanding from simple tractable systems to the more complex dynamics of real world-systems.
Before joining UQ, he was a Marie Curie fellow working with Jonathan Levine and Alex Hall at ETH Zurich (2018-2020), a postdoctoral fellow in Daniel Stouffer's lab at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2017-2018), and a CEHG (Centre for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics) postdoctoral fellow in Tad Fukami's lab at Stanford University, USA (2015-2017). He did his PhD (2011-2015) with David Keith in the Centre for Ecosystem Science at UNSW Australia.
Availability
- Dr Andrew Letten is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Works
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2009
Journal Article
Rodent pollination in the Cape legume Liparia parva
Letten, Andrew D. and Midgley, Jeremy J. (2009). Rodent pollination in the Cape legume Liparia parva. Austral Ecology, 34 (2), 233-236. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2008.01925.x
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Andrew Letten is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Costs of antibiotic resistance through the lens of resource-competition theory
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
Microbial community dynamics in nonequilibrium systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
The role of resource fluctuations in structuring microbial communities
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
The evolution of antibiotic resistance through the lens of ecological competition theory
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
The costs and consequences of antibioitic resistance in fluctuating environments
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
Manipulating disturbance synchrony to regulate microbial systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr James Orr
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Doctor Philosophy
Understanding the evolution of intrinsic antibiotic resistance using machine learning
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
Volatile synchrony: Pulse reproductive events of giant canopy trees, and the fauna they impact.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Matthew Luskin
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Doctor Philosophy
The effects of rapid evolution and phenotypic plasticity on ecological dynamics in fluctuating environments
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr John Dwyer
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Master Philosophy
Investigating the fitness effects of rifampicin resistance mutations across environments
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
Rapid evolution and the dynamics and stability of ecological communities.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter, Dr Simon Hart
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