Lisa’s summer research topic is on the visual control of eye growth. Her main study explores the environmental influences of different light intensities that may affect the rate of eye growth. Lisa’s experiment investigates whether chickens under normal environmental exposures and light intensities are less vulnerable to excessive eye growth than chickens that are exposed to diurnal ambient indoor lighting conditions. In addition to her lab work, Lisa has also had the opportunity to attend a number of conferences and lectures on this subject throughout her summer scholarship.

Lisa has just completed a combined Bachelor of Science and Arts majoring in Zoology and Biological Anthropology, at ANU, and will be studying honours in Biological Anthropology this year.

Lisa has found her summer scholarship at RSBS to be a highly beneficial experience. She says, “You get to meet lots of other summer and research students during your time at the RSBS. You also get to see a different side to the ANU that you do not get to see as an undergraduate. Doing this summer scholarship has also helped me decide that I do want to have some sort of research career, rather than the usual Canberra choice of working in the public service”.

To that end Lisa’s career aspirations now centre on academic research particularly within Visual Science and Primatology.

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