Carolyn Hogg

Dr Carolyn Hogg is a conservation biologist who has been working with threatened species for over 20 years, both in Australia and overseas. Carolyn is the Research Manager of the Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group at the University of Sydney, specialising in using genomics to answering key questions about disease in threatened wildlife. For the past nine years, she has been working closely with the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program, as well the recovery teams for the orange-bellied parrot, plains wanderer and spotted handfish. Through her partnerships with both her academic and conservation colleagues Carolyn has developed better tools and technologies to integrate molecular genetics into real-time conservation management decisions.