We love to use genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic tools to learn more about marine organisms.  We are interested in blue skies applications, like understanding more about ecological and evolutionary processes driving the patterns of diversity we see in marine taxa today and also more applied questions, like understanding fisheries stock structure to inform management, solving bottlenecks in aquaculture and investigating more about toxins and slimes in cephalopods with real world applications for medicines and biomimetics. We work on organisms from a range of environments – the tropics to Antarctica and coastal waters to the deep-sea.

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Ciguatera poisoning: A Review by Joe Perkins

Joe’s comprehensive review on ciguatera poisoning, just published in Harmful Algae, offers an in-depth examination of the ecological dynamics of ...
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In pursuit of the perfect abalone genome

Roy's beautiful genome paper is published today in Nature Scientific Data. Using a combination of Hi-Fi sequencing and Omni-C scaffolding, ...
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Chromosomal inversions harbour deleterious mutations in the coral, Acropora kenti

A new paper led by Jia shows that there are at least five large, highly polymorphic chromosomal inversions in Acropora ...
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UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF THE MARINE INVERTEBRATES FROM THE SUB-ANTARCTIC HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

by Jesselyn Brown Often in science, it is assumed most of the big discoveries happen out in the field, on ...
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Tropical blacklip rock oysters are great at gobbling up nutrients

Ben Rennie led a great study as part of his Masters project to investigate filtration rates and the bioremediation potential ...
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Octopus DNA predicts future West Antarctic ice sheet collapse

Sally Lau led a fantastic study published in Science which used octopus DNA to discover that the West Antarctic Ice ...
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There are many more blue-ringed octopuses than you think there are…..

Brooke Whitelaw led a fantastic study investigating species diversity in the iconic blue-ringed octopus genus, Hapalochlaena. Using genome-wide SNP data ...
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Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF) conference in Adelaide – Sally wins research prize!

Nikki, Sally, and Jan had a blast at the SAEF conference in Adelaide. Held at the National Library, it was ...
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Sampling Marine Invertebrates at the Australian Antarctic Division

Nikki, Sally, Nerida, and Jan sampled Antarctic marine invertebrates at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). We collected tissue samples to ...
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Congratulations Graduates!

Dr Sally Lau and Prof Jan Strugnell Dr Legana Fingerhut, Dr Ira Cooke and Dr Chloe Boote Team support All ...
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