Yasmin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the MEEP Lab. She recently submitted her PhD thesis, which was completed under the supervision of Simon Ho and Hervé Sauquet (Royal Botanic Garden). Her PhD project explored the link between molecular and morphological rates of evolution in flowering plants.
Yasmin received the University Medal for her 1st Class Honours research project on flowering plants, which was completed in the MEEP Lab in 2020 under the supervision of Simon Ho and Hervé Sauquet (Botanic Gardens of Sydney). Before joining the MEEP Lab, Yasmin completed a Bachelor of Advanced Science in 2019 at Macquarie University.
A list of Yasmin’s publications can be found on Google Scholar.
Awards and honours
University of Sydney
- Faculty of Science Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding. Academic Achievement, 2024
- Faculty of Science Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding. Academic Achievement, 2023
- University Medal in Biology, 2020
- Professor Spencer Smith-White Prize for genetics, 2020
- Ilma Brewer Prize for botany, 2020
Macquarie University
- Macquarie University Award for Academic Excellence, 2020
- Merit List, 2020
- Ralph Faulkner prize for Evolutionary Palaeontology, 2019
- Summer Research Scholarship, 2018–2019
- Mollie Thomson Prize for 100-level Biology, 2017