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Biography
Dr Julia Grassl is a Molecular Biologist and Honey Bee Researcher in the School of Molecular Sciences at the University of Western Australia. Dr Grassl obtained a PhD in Molecular Biology from Swansea University in the UK in 2007 and moved to Perth in 2009. As a group leader of the Honey Bee Health Research Group, her work now focusses on the impacts of genetic diversity, disease and nutrition on honey bee health. Working closely with beekeepers her work provides tools and answers for breeding healthy bees, detecting disease and finding nutrition thresholds through the application of molecular techniques. As a Program Leader for the CRC for Honey Bee Products in Honey Bee Health, her group is working hard to build sensors for non-invasive detection of AFB. Her work has advanced want we know about disease resistance in bees and is studying the effects of nutrition and supplementary feeding for healthier and more productive bees.
Roles and responsibilities
Group Leader: Honey Bee Health Research Group
Funding overview
Current
AgriFutures Australia - Diagnostics for American Foulbrood in Honey Bees - 26/10/20 → 31/03/23
AgriFutures Australia - Setting new standards for honey bee nutrition in Australian Bee Stock - 28/02/22 → 28/06/25
Finished
CRC HBP Project 19 - Molecular marker identification for disease resistance and implementation into a bee breeding program - 2017-2022
CRC HBP Project 20 - Honey bee disease diagnostics - 2017-2022
CRC HBPProject 21 - Honey Bee Nutrition - Early detection of malnutrition and colony collapse - 2017-2022
2010-2011 Research Development Award “Visualising Proteins in Soybean Cotyledons for the Spatial Analysis of Plant Development”
UWA funding scheme
AU$29,170
Awards
2018 UWA Faculty of Science - Rising Star Award
2010 Early Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award to attend the 2010 Human Proteome Organization Congress (HUPO) Congress in Sydney
Australian Proteomics Society
AU$1250
2008 Dissemination Grant to cover costs for colour page charges for publication in PROTEOMICS
UCD internal Seed funding scheme.
€595
2008 Travel grant to poster presentation and travel costs for Siena Proteomics meeting in Italy
Denator AB
€1300
2006 and 2007 Travel Grants (£400 each) to give a talk (2006) and present a poster (2007) at the BSPR proteomics meeting in Hinxton, UK (by
British Mass Spectrometer Society
£400
2003 Fees-only bursary from Swansea University for PhD research degree
Previous positions
Postdoctoral Researcher
UCD Conway Institute
University College Dublin
UCD Conway Institute
University College Dublin
Industrial relevance
Safeguarding honey bees: Making the beekeeping industry more sustainable.
Teaching overview
BIOC5001 Advanced Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Techniques
GENE5001 Advanced Genomics Techniques
SCI4001 The Objectives and Applications of Genomics
Research
Honey Bee Diseases, Host parasite interactions, Honey Bee Nutrition, quantitative Proteomics and Genomics
Languages
German and English
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Cancer biomarkers, PhD (Medical Genetics) , Swansea University
1 Sept 2003 → 30 Jun 2007
Award Date: 12 Sept 2007
Genetics, BSc (1st. Hons), University College of Swansea (University of Wales)
12 Sept 1998 → 7 May 2003
Award Date: 7 Jun 2003
External positions
Program leader, Cooperative Research Centre for Honey Bee Products
1 Oct 2017 → 30 Jun 2022
Research expertise keywords
- Honey Bees
- Quantitative proteomics
- Mass spectrometry
- Protein separations
- Honey bee nutrition
- Host Parasite interactions
- Bee diseases
- Metabolomics
- Proteomics
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Lipidomic features of honey bee and colony health during limited supplementary feeding
Castaños, C. E., Boyce, M. C., Bates, T., Millar, A. H., Flematti, G., Lawler, N. G. & Grassl, J., Dec 2023, In: Insect Molecular Biology. 32, 6, p. 658-675 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Volatile biomarkers for non-invasive detection of American foulbrood, a threat to honey bee pollination services
Bikaun, J. M., Bates, T., Bollen, M., Flematti, G. R., Melonek, J., Praveen, P. & Grassl, J., 1 Nov 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 845, 157123.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus) -
Genetic Variation in Antimicrobial Activity of Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Seminal Fluid
Holt, S., Cremen, N., Grassl, J., Schmid-Hempel, P. & Baer, B., 9 Dec 2021, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9, 16 p., 755226.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Sensors for the detection of honey bee diseases
Grassl, J. & Praveen, P., 22 Sept 2021, (Unpublished) Patent No. 2021903053, 22 Sept 2022, Priority date 22 Sept 2022Research output: Patent
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Method for Detecting Disease
Grassl, J. & Bikaun, J., 1 Oct 2020, Patent No. PCT/AU2020/051048, 3 Apr 2022, Priority date 3 Oct 2019Research output: Patent › peer-review
Datasets
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Data from: Seminal fluid of honeybees contains multiple mechanisms to combat infections of the sexually transmitted pathogen Nosema apis
Peng, Y. G. (Creator), Grassl, J. (Creator), Millar, H. (Creator) & Baer, B. (Creator), DRYAD, 11 Aug 2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.18bv9, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.18bv9
Dataset
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Setting new standards for honey bee nutrition in Australian Bee Stock
28/02/22 → 28/06/25
Project: Research
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Development of sensor chemistry for detection of American Foulbrood.
1/07/22 → 30/10/23
Project: Research
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Project 19 - Molecular marker identification for disease resistance and implementation into a bee breeding program; Project 20 - Honey bee disease diagnostics; Project 21 - Honey Bee Nutrition - Early detection of malnutrition and colony collapse
Cooperative Research Centre for Honey Bee Products
1/07/17 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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2011 - Visualising Proteins in Soybean Cotyledons for the Spatial Analysis of Plant Development
The University of Western Australia
1/01/11 → 31/12/11
Project: Research