- Botany - Plant evolutionary and developmental studies, conservation and biodiversity analytical methods, nomenclature and typification, tropical seeding biology, molecular systematics, Solanceae systematics.
- Vertebrates - Systematics and evolution of reptile, amphibian and fish groups. Biogeography and conservation. Bird eggs and nests.
- Invertebrates - Systematics of insect disease vectors and insect pests of humans and domestic animals. Forensic entomology. Molecular and cellular evolution of parasitic protists. Deep sea biology (nematodes).
- Soil microfauna diversity and soil ecosystem processes. Systematics of parasitic worms (trematodes, helminths and schistomes) in humans and domestic animals. Systematics and biology (including phylogeny and ontology) of Crustacean groups.
- Palaeobotany
- Fossil invertebrates - fossil annelids, fossil byrozoans, echinoderms, mollusca and sponges.
- Fossil vertebrates - dinosaurs, fossil fish, fossil birds, all major reptile clades, Mesozoic mammals, fossil amphibians (late Devonian to Pleistocene), palaeobiogeography and palaeogeography of amphibians and reptiles.
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