Dr Luke Noble

Leader - Molecular Science

Luke is a geneticist driven by the need to understand and manage the living world, especially its smaller inhabitants, through application of technology and evolutionary knowledge.

Luke's research experience has taken him from protein chemistry to global population genomics, studying fruit flies, filamentous fungi, pennate diatoms, and Caenorhabditis nematodes, and from the foothills of the Victorian Alps to Melbourne, New York, Panama, and Paris. While his primary tools have been computers, sequencers, and statistics, research has increasingly pulled him (mentally, if not bodily) out of the lab and into the environment.

Long convinced of eDNA's potential to transform our relationship with the world by lifting many practical and sensorial constraints, Luke jumped like a copepod at the chance to work with the EnviroDNA team helping shape the future of environmental monitoring and management. He oversees EnviroDNA's lab operations, working across molecular biology, eDNA applications, informatics, project management, and business development. When not working, you might find him in a garden, a kitchen, on a bike, or not at all - away with family and friends, introducing kids to wilder places.