Tan

Matthew completed his undergraduate training at the University of Queensland and completed his Honours Degree in Nematology in 2008.

During his Honours research, he studied the intraspecific variation within Australian Radopholus similis isolates (Burrowing nematode) on banana plants. Based on these results, it was concluded that the burrowing nematode has been introduced into Australia, although the genus Radopholus is indigenous to Australia.

After completing his degree, Matthew worked in the National Parks Board (NParks) in Singapore for 15 months.

He is now completing his PhD at Murdoch University (Western Australia) with Dr Vivien Vanstone (Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia) and Professor Mike Jones. Matthew is aiming to develop novel technique for plant parasitic nematode identification. Currently, promising results have been obtained from protein profiling of nematodes which has potential for use as a molecular diagnostic approach for species identification.

Matthew hopes to collect different species of nematodes and established a protein profile bank.