Ian Greaves studied at Latrobe University in Melbourne where he undertook at PhD with Professor Jenny Graves studying nuclear organization and epigenetics in marsupial meiosis. He then was a postdoctoral fellow at the John Curtin School of Medical Research studying changes to both histone modifications and histone variants during cell division and mammalian meiosis. Ian has since moved to CSIRO Plant Industry where he has been working with Liz Dennis and Jim Peacock in investigating the role of epigenetic changes in hybrid vigour.