Dr Michael Kokkinn

Michael Kokkinn is an ex-South African who has lived in Australia since 1982. He is gregarious and enjoys engaging students with anecdotes and analogies in order to bring Course materials to life. Michael is based in The Sansom Institute where he conducts research on both plants and animals. His most recent work involves a study of the ink of the Southern Calamari squid.

Invertebrate Biology 200

Bioapplications 300

• The role of lectures in University education
• Passion and lifelong learning
• On line support for education in the Biological Sciences
• The role of post graduate study
• Modes of student engagement

Marine Life Sciences Society of South Australia

HPA, Graaff-Reinet, South Africa - Four Year Teacher Trained

Bachelor of Science, Rhodes University, South Africa

Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Zoology, Rhodes University, South Africa

PhD in Zoology, The University of Adelaide (AWRAC National Award for thesis)

• Biology of invertebrates: insect communities over heath lands; mosquitoes; spiders; cephalopods
• Biology of vertebrates: digestion in venomous snakes; histology of snake digestive tracts; rodent digestion; rodent biology; vertebrates as pollinators
• Adaptive morphology of Australian native seeds
• Propagation of Australian native heath plants
• The impact of salinization on terrestrial invertebrate communities

Kokkinn, M.J. and B.R. Allanson (1985) On the flux of organic carbon in tidal salt marsh in the Kowie River Estuary, Port Alfred, South Africa. South Africa Journal of Science, 81:613-617.

Kokkinn, M.J. (1986) Osmoregulation, salinity tolerance and the site of ion excretion in the halobiont chironomid,Tanytarsus barbitarsis (Freeman). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 37:243-250.

Perrin, M.R, and M.J. Kokkinn (1986) Comparative gastric anatomy of Cricetomys gambianus and Saccostomus campestris (Cricetomyinae) in relation to Mystromys albicaudatus (Cricetinae). South African Journal of Zoology, 21:202-210.

Kokkinn, M.J. (1986) Identification of two Australian salt-lake chironomid species from subfossil larval head capsules. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 54:317-328.

Kokkinn, M.J. and A.R. Davis (1986) Secondary production: Shooting a Halcyon for its feathers. In: Limnology in Australia pp. 251-261, P. de Deckker and W.D. Williams (eds) CSIRO, Melbourne/Junk, Dordrecht.

Kokkinn, M.J. and W.D. Williams (1987) Is ephippial morphology a useful taxonomic descriptor in the Cladocera? An examination based on a study of Daphniopsis (Daphniidae) from Australian salt lakes. Hydrobiologia, 145:67-73.

Kokkinn, M.J. and W.D. Williams (1988) Adaptations to life in a hypersaline waterbody: adaptations at the egg and early embryonic stage of Tanytarsus barbitarsis Freeman (Diptera: Chironomidae). Aquatic Insects, 10:205-214.

Kokkinn, M.J. and W.D. Williams (1988) The biogeographical affinities of the fauna in episodically filled salt lakes: a study of Lake Eyre South, Australia. Hydrobiologia, 158:227-236.

Williams, W.D. & M.J. Kokkinn (1988) Wetlands and Aquatic Saline Environments. 90pp. Dept. Resources and Energy, Final Report for Research Project 84/160

Kokkinn, M.J. and W.D. Williams (1989) An experimental study of phototactic responses of Tanytarsus barbitarsis Freeman (Diptera: Chironomidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 40:693-702.

Kokkinn, M.J. (1990) Is the rate of embryonic development a predictor for overall development rate in Tanytarsus barbitarsis Freeman (Diptera: Chironomidae)? Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 41:575-579

Sherwood, J.E., M.J. Kokkinn, F. Stagniti and W.D. Williams (1991) Dissolved oxygen concentrations in hypersaline waters. Limnology and Oceanography, 36:521-529.

Sherwood, J.E., M.J. Kokkinn, F. Stagniti and W.D. Williams (1992). A standard table for predicting equilibrium dissolved oxygen concentrations in salt lakes dominated by sodium chloride. International Journal of Salt Lake Research, 1:1-6.

Sherwood, J.E., M.J. Kokkinn and W.D. Williams (1995). Determination of orthophosphate in highly saline waters. International Journal of Salt Lake Research, 3:159-73.

Kokkinn, M.J. (1996) The Autonomic Nervous System as a Shibboleth pp. 48-55 IN: Caring for The Body, S. Delacey, D. Longson & E. Willis(eds). Flinders University Publ. ISBN 0 7258 0604 4

Williams, C.R., M.J. Kokkinn and K.S. Gilbert (1999) Spatial heterogeneity in oviposition preference of the mosquito Aedes notoscriptus (Skuse) (Diptera:Culicidae) in Adelaide, South Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology, 38:354-358.

Smith, B., M. Kokkinn and J. Bidwell (1999) A toxicity test for contaminated Australian freshwater sediments using the larvae of Chironimus madderni (Diptera: Chironomidae), A species native to South Australia. Australasian Journal of Ecotoxicology , 5:11-20

Williams, C.R. and Kokkinn, M.J. (2000). Records of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Cooper Basin in north-eastern South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 124: 45 - 47.

Williams, C.R.; Kokkinn, M.J.; Snell, A.E.; Fricker, S.R.;& Crossfield, E.L. (2001) Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. Transactions of The Royal Society of South Australia. 125(2):115-121

Williams C.R.; Kokkinn M.J.; Smith B.P (2003) Intraspecific Variation in Odor-Mediated Host Preference of the Mosquito Culex annulirostris. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 29(8):1889-1903

Williams, C.R., A.E. Snell and M.J. Kokkinn (2004). Studies of temporal host-seeking patterns of Culex annulirostris (Diptera: Culicidae): A comparison of methods and populations. Transactions of the Royal Society of S. Aust., 128(2):225-229.

Smith, B.P.C. and M. Kokkinn (2004). The use of Emergence as an end-point for sediment toxicity tests using the Australian chironomid Chironomus maddeni. Transactions of the Royal Society of S. Aust., 128(2): 213-218.

Williams, C.R. and M.J. Kokkinn (2005) Daily patterns of locomotor and sugar-feeding activity of the mosquito Culex annulirostris from geographically isolated populations. Physiological Entomology 30:1-8.

Kokkinn, M.J., Duval, D.J., & Williams, C.R. (2009). Modelling the ecology of the coastal mosquitoes Aedes vigilax and Aedes camptorhynchus at Port Pirie, South Australia. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 23, 85-91.

Williams, C.R., Fricker, S.R., Schneemilch, M.J., Williams, S.R., Kokkinn, M.J. & Wakefield, J.D. 2008. RR Forecaster: tools for predicting mosquito and arbovirus activity Version 2.0 (with CD-ROM). University of South Australia and South Australian Department of Health, Adelaide. ISBN 978 1 920927 84 4

Williams, C.R., Fricker, S.R. & Kokkinn, M.J. (2009). Environmental and entomological factors determining Ross River virus activity in the River Murray Valley of South Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 33, 284-8.

Williams, C.R., Williams, S.R., Nicholson, J., Little, S.M., Riordan, J., Fricker, S.R. & Kokkinn, M.J. (2009). Diversity and seasonal succession of coastal mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Adelaide region of South Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 48, 107-112.

Williams, S.R., Kokkinn, M.J., Fricker, S.R., Schneemilch, M.J., Humphrey, M.J., & Williams, C.R. (2009). Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Spencer Gulf Coast of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 133, 51-56.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Zoology

• Invertebrate Life
• Vertebrate Life
• Mosquito biology and control
• South Australian native heaths
• Snake digestion