Young, Andrew Graham   (1965 - )

Born in 1965 in New Zealand;

BSc (1986) and MSc (1988) Department of Botany, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
PhD (1993) Biology Department, Carleton University, Canada.
Appointed to the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, in 1993.

His research interests are in plant population genetics and ecology.

He is particularly interested in how genetic processes interact with demography to influence population viability, particularly in fragmented populations.

Project areas include basic research on effects of genetically controlled self-incompatibility systems on mate availability, the role of inbreeding in determining the viability of fragmented populations, genetics and ecology of rare and endangered species, provenance studies of common shrubs and trees for restoration and ecological risk assessment of GMOs.

His research employs a broad range of techniques including the use of molecular genetic markers, demographic monitoring, growth experiments and simulation modeling.

From 2014 he was Science Director, National Collections and Marine Infrastructure, CSIRO, becoming Director, National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO, a position he relinquished in 2023.

2002 - present: honorary professor, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra.

Source: Extracted from:
https://nesplandscapes.edu.au/about/people/andrew-young/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-andrew-young-58a17b19/?originalSubdomain=au
https://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/staff/young_staff.html
Portrait Photo: 1999, M.Fagg.

Collecting localities for 'Young, A.G.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 40 specimens