Alix de Jersey
PhD Candidate
Alix joined Adrift Lab as a new PhD student in 2022 after completing her Masters degree at the Australian Antarctic Division. For her MSc, she investigated overlap between the diet of Adelie penguins and Snow petrels (wow!) using DNA analysis of scat samples (in other words, she looked at seabird guano/poo – something many Adrift Lab students have experience with).
For her PhD, Alix as been making excellent use of her lab skills and seabird knowledge as she investigates the effects of plastic ingestion on the health of shearwaters. Her project is based at the Tasmanian School of Medicine and her primary supervisor is inflammation expert, Dr Jack Rivers-Auty.