Email: y.eiby@uq.edu.au

Research Interests

My general interests are in understanding environmental effects on offspring composition, developmental trajectories, energetics and survival and the differences in developmental optima between the sexes. As a postgraduate in the School of Biological Sciences I was particularly interested in environmental effects on the incubation of bird and reptile eggs with special emphasis on the influence of incubation temperature on development in Brush-turkeys. My current work as a postdoctorate researcher in the Colditz group focuses on the function and control of the cardiovascular system of piglets as a model for understanding hypoxic injury in human neonates. 

Research Projects

Low Systemic Blood Flow in Pre-term Pigs.

The structure, function and control of the cardiovascular system of pre-term pigs as a model for investigating the clinical applications of inotropes to reduce hypoxic brain injury in human neonates. 

Key publications

Eiby, Y.A., Worthington Wilmer, J. & Booth, D.T. (2008) Temperature-dependent sex-biased embryo mortality in a megapode bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London- Biological Sciences, 275 (1652) 2703-2706.

(DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0954)

Eiby, Y.A. & Booth, D.T. (2008) Embryonic thermal tolerance and temperature variation in mounds of the Australian Brush-turkey (Alectura lathami). The Auk, 125 (3):594-599.

(DOI:10.1525/auk.2008.07083)

Eiby, Y.A. & Booth, D.T. (2009) The effects of incubation temperature on the morphology and composition of Australian Brush-turkey (Alectura lathami) chicks. In press Journal of Comparative Physiology B.

Contact details and email

Perinatal Research Centre

UQCCR RBWH Herston

(07) 334 66010

y.eiby@uq.edu.au

Funding acknowledgement

NHMRC grant

Technique Expertise

Isolated heart preparation, artificial egg incubation, animal related procedures, embryonic oxygen consumption, inbreeding and mate choice in Drosophila.

Collaborations

• Prof Eugenie Lumbers, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of NSW;
• Dr Karen Gibson, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, UNSW,
• Dr Amanda Boyce, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, UNSW.