Janine Deakin is a professor at the University of Canberra and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology.
[1] She then completed her PhD in Biology at Macquarie University in 1998 entitled “Immunology of mother-pouch young relationships in the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula”.
[3][4] This investigated the possibility of controlling possums in New Zealand by sterilizing the pouch young via the mother's immune response to a molecule important to sex differentiation.
[2][3] Deakin was awarded an ARC Future Fellow in 2010 to study the evolution of devil facial tumour disease.
[7] Deakin has progressed our understanding of Australian marsupial and mammal genetics as well as epigenetics in non-model organisms (e.g.[8][9][10][11][12]) and has integrated her research on native species with the broader community through media outreach to create awareness for conservation.