Current activities

Floriaan is currently completing his PhD (From rivers to ocean basins – quantifying sex-specific connectivity in sharks) as part of NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project A1 - Northern Australian hotspots for the recovery of threatened euryhaline species.

The project aims to investigate reproductive connectivity in well-defined river shark (Glyphis glyphis and Glyphis garricki) populations. By applying novel molecular techniques, we will improve our understanding on male-specific gene flow and female philopatry.

Background

Floriaan is a marine biologist with significant experience in genetics and genomics, including eDNA, metabarcoding and population genetics, as well as ecology (invasive species and remote fieldwork) and bioinformatics.

Academic qualifications

Master in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (EMBC+) at the University of Ghent and the University of Oviedo

Bachelor in Biology at the University of Leuven

Publications

• Devloo-Delva F., Miralles L., Ardura A., Borrell Y. J., Pejovic I., Tsartsianidou V., & Garcia-Vazquez E. (2016). Detection and characterisation of the biopollutant Xenostrobus securis (Lamarck 1819) Asturian population from DNA Barcoding and eBarcoding. Marine pollution bulletin, 105(1), 23-29.
• Miralles L., Dopico E., Devloo-Delva F., & Garcia-Vazquez E. (2016). Controlling populations of invasive pygmy mussel (Xenostrobus securis) through citizen science and environmental DNA. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 110(1), 127-132.
• Devloo-Delva F., Huerlimann R, Chua G., Matley J. K., Heupel M. R., Simpfendorfer C. A., & Maes G. E. (2018) How does marker choice affect your diet analysis: comparing genetic markers and digestion levels for diet metabarcoding of tropical-reef piscivores. Marine and Freshwater Research, 70(1), 8-18.
• Matley J.K., Maes G.E., Devloo‐Delva F., Huerlimann R., Chua G., Tobin A.J., Fisk A.T., Simpfendorfer C.A. and Heupel M.R. (2018). Integrating complementary methods to improve diet analysis in fishery‐targeted species. Ecology and evolution, 8(18), 9503-9515.
• Devloo‐Delva F., Maes G.E., Hernández S.I., Mcallister J.D., Gunasekera R.M., Grewe P.M., Thomson R.B. and Feutry P. (2019). Accounting for kin sampling reveals genetic connectivity in Tasmanian and New Zealand school sharks, Galeorhinus galeus. Ecology and evolution, 9(8), 4465-4472.
• Green M.E., Appleyard S., White W., Tracey S., Devloo-Delva F. and Ovenden J. (2019) Novel multi-marker comparisons address the genetic population structure of silvertip sharks (Carcharhinus albimarginatus). Marine and Freshwater Research