Gregory Sword
Education
Ph.D. University of Texas, Department of Zoology, 1998
B.Sc. University of Arizona, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1992
Professional Employment
2009 – current Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
2006 – 2009 Senior Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
2000 – 2005 Research Ecologist
USDA-ARS, Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory
1998 – 2000 Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Oxford, Department of Zoology
University of Arizona, ARL-Division of Neurobiology
Recent Grants
2009 - 2011 ARC Linkage Grant #LP0989291, “Autonomous tracking and predictive modelling of Australian plague locust migratory band movement.” ($340,000, CIs: G.A. Sword, S. Sukkarieh, S.J. Simpson, G.M. Brooker & P.A. Spurgin)
2009 - 2011 ARC Discovery Grant #DP0985137, “Heterarchical modelling of nutritional ecology: from individuals to communities.” ($390.000. CIs: S.J. Simpson, G.A. Sword, M. Charleston, I.D. Couzin & D. Raubenheimer)
2008 - 2010 ARC Discovery Grant #DP0877542, "The functional genomics of locust migratory behaviour." ($619,000, CIs: G.A. Sword, S.J. Simpson, N. Lo & L. Kang)
2008 ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Grant #LE0883055, “Video analysis suite for the integrative analysis of resource acquisition behaviour in animals.” ($340,000, multiple CIs)
2007 - 2009 ARC Linkage Project Grant
#LP0669080, “Australian plague locust population
genetics and migratory behaviour.” ($409,000, CIs:
S.J. Simpson & G.A. Sword)
2001 - 2005 U.S. Forest Service Agreement
#01-IA-110778-00-094, “The effects of fire and
livestock grazing on grasshopper population
dynamics.” ($100,000, co-PI with D. Branson)
Teaching
BIOL 1001 Concepts in Biology
BIOL 1002 Living Systems - Unit Executive
Officer
BIOL 1902 Living Systems (Advanced) - Unit
Executive Officer
BIOL 2017 Entomology
BIOL 3011 Ecophysiology
BIOL 3025 Evolutionary Genetics and Animal
Behaviour
MBLG 2972 Molecular Biology and Genetics
(Advanced) - independent project supervisor
Research
Publications