Linette Umbrello (graduated 2019) Postdoctoral Fellow, QUT Research Associate - Mammalogy Terrestrial Zoology BSc (Hons), PhD (UWA) linette.umbrello@museum.wa.gov.au Research Documenting the diversity of Australia's smallest marsupial carnivores (Planigale, Sminthopsis, Antechninomys) Phylogeography and population genetics of dasyurid marupials in the Pilbara and adjacent bioregions. Understanding the drivers of genetic differentiation and structure resulting from aridification during the Pleistocene. Investigating the morphological distinctiveness of isolated Pilbara dasyurid populations (Planigale and Dasyurus species). Projects Slipping through the cracks: documenting the diversity of declining marsupial carnivores (Planigalinae and Sminthopsinae) in northern and central Australia [ABRS] Net Conservation Benefits Project: Conservation Systematics of the small ground-dwelling marsupials of the Pilbara Fauna. Selected Publications Umbrello, L.S., Didham, R.K., How, R.A., & Huey, J.A. 2020. Multi-species phylogeography of arid-zone sminthopsinae (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) reveals evidence of refugia and population expansion in response to quaternary change. Genes 11 (9), 963 Umbrello, L.S., Woolley, P.A., & Westerman, M. 2018. Species relationships in the dasyurid marsupial genus Pseudantechinus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): a re-examination of the taxonomic status of Pseudantechinus roryi. Australian Journal of Zoology 65 (4), 240-247