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Tiffany A. Kosch, PhD

Senior Research Fellow
University of Melbourne
Werribee, Victoria, Australia

Dr Tiffany Kosch is a Research Fellow with the One Health Research Group at the University of Melbourne, where she is pioneering genetic approaches to enhance wildlife resilience to intractable threats such as climate change and disease. Her work focuses on developing Targeted Genetic Intervention (TGI) by integrating tools from genomics, quantitative genetics, synthetic biology, and animal breeding to improve reintroduction outcomes—particularly for chytridiomycosis-affected species like the endangered Southern Corroboree Frog.

Tiffany earned her PhD in Interdisciplinary Biology in 2012 from East Carolina University (USA), where she studied the distribution of chytridiomycosis in Peruvian amphibians and optimised diagnostic tools for the disease. She has since held postdoctoral positions at Seoul National University (South Korea), James Cook University (Australia), and Massey University (New Zealand), contributing to research on MHC variation, the origins and evolution of the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), genome-wide associations with Bd resistance, and genetic improvement for conservation breeding programs.

Her research interests include emerging wildlife diseases, amphibian and conservation genomics, genomic selection, threatened species management, and Targeted Genetic Intervention. Tiffany is also the Founding Director of the Amphibian Genomics Consortium (AGC), an international initiative that brings together researchers to accelerate the development and application of genomic resources for amphibian conservation and functional studies.

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