Brooke Zanco

I'm an evolutionary biologist, with expertise in nutrition. Most of my work focuses on the relationships between insects and the plants they eat, and how these relationships are changing. I'm currently working in the The Pollinator Futures Research Centre at Macquarie University trying to understand how changes in the nutritional environment driven by climate change impact pollinator fitness. Previously I worked as an EMBO Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL, where I studied the evolution of biotic interactions in the Brown Argus butterfly under climate change. I have also undertaken research using D.melanogaster as a model organism to understand lifespan/reproduction trade-offs associated with diet, and local adaptations in nutritional and thermal tolerance along the Australian east coast.