Lisa Kirkland
Senior Scientist | People & Culture Coordinator
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Biological Sciences & Psychology
Lisa’s journey at Cesar Australia has evolved over the past decade, shaped by a genuine love of working with living things, from insects and platypuses to her fellow humans. With roots in science and an interest in entomology, she has become an expert at leading laboratory and semi-field experiments to discover how best to manage agricultural invertebrate pests while promoting healthy ecosystems, including ecologically beneficial arthropods.
While still spending plenty of time in the lab with tiny critters (often singing while she works), Lisa now balances this with her other passion of strategising to build a harmonious and engaged workplace – because when people are thriving, work becomes a place you genuinely want to be.
Outside of work, Lisa’s life is full and lively with two young boys, two dogs, and a variety of invertebrate pets – currently a huntsman and a tarantula! You might find her being creative with pottery, listening to music and pop culture podcasts, or simply making memories with her young family.
Lisa Kirkland, Meena Thakur, Jianhua Mo (2025) Effectiveness of spinosad and spinetoram against the citrus gall wasp, Bruchophagus fellis (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae), and their impacts on beneficial arthropods in citrus. Austral Entomology 64: 70005.
Lisa Kirkland, Marielle Babineau, Samantha Ward, Anthony van Rooyen, Evatt Chirgwin, Luis Mata, Paul Umina (2024) Assessing the risk of resistance to flonicamid and afidopyropen in green peach aphid (Hemiptera: Myzus persicae) via in-vivo selection. Crop Protection 184: 106783.
Lisa Kirkland, Evatt Chirgwin, Samantha Ward, Benjamin Congdon, Anthony van Rooyen, Paul Umina (2023) P450‐mediated resistance in Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) reduces the efficacy of neonicotinoid seed treatments in Brassica napus. Pest Management Science 79: 1851-1859.
Jianhua Mo, Michael Furlong, Lisa Kirkland, Mark Stevens (2023) Exploiting asynchronous host-parasitoid emergence distributions to optimise insecticide applications and protect beneficial insects – a case study using the citrus gall wasp Bruchophagus fellis (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae). Crop Protection 174: 106428.
Aston Arthur, Lisa Kirkland, Evatt Chirgwin, Anthony van Rooyen, Paul Umina (2022) Baseline susceptibility of Australian Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) to novel insecticides flonicamid and afidopyropen. Crop Protection 158: 105992.
Paul Umina, Chris Bass, Anthony van Rooyen, Evatt Chirgwin, Aston Arthur, Adam Pym, Jo Mackisack, Andrew Mathews, Lisa Kirkland (2022) Spirotetramat resistance in Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) and its association with the presence of the A2666V mutation. Pest Management Science 78: 4822-4831.
Lisa Kirkland, James Maino, Oliver Stuart, Paul Umina (2020) Ontogeny in the European earwig (Forficula auricularia) and grain crops interact to exacerbate feeding damage risk. Journal of Applied Entomology 144: 605-615.
Lisa Kirkland, Elia Pirtle, Paul Umina (2018) Responses of the Russian wheat aphid (Diuraphis noxia) and bird cherry oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi) to insecticide seed treatments in wheat. Crop and Pasture Science 69: 966-973.
James Cheeseman, Eva Winnebeck, Craig Millar, Lisa Kirkland, James Sleigh, Mark Goodwin, Matt Pawley, Guy Bloch, Konstantin Lehmann, Randolf Menzel, Guy Warman (2012) General anesthesia alters time perception by phase shifting the circadian clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 7061-7066.
Lisa Fendall, Mary Sewell (2009) Contributing to marine pollution by washing your face: Microplastics in facial cleansers. Marine Pollution Bulletin 58: 1225-1228.