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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Eva Paulus awarded funding for Dugong conservation genetics

Eva Paulus was awarded $20,000 from the Threatened Species Initiative to sequence the genomes of dugongs along their Australian range, ...
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Alison Green Zoology Research Fund winner – Dr Sally Lau!

Sally Lau was awarded the Alison Green Zoology Research Fund this year to further her research on East Antarctic marine ...
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Australasian Genomic Technologies Association AGTA – Opening Oration by Ira Cooke

Ira and Jan were both invited speakers at the Australian Genomic Technologies Association (AGTA) conference in October, 2024, in Cairns ...
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Nikki Rodewald wins best poster prize!

The 2024 Australian Antarctic Research Conference in Hobart (November, 2024) drew 450 polar scientists and featured many talks, workshops and ...
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Australian Festival of Chamber Music – Festival 2024

Jan and Ira were delighted to present a public lecture together at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in July, ...
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Finalists! – Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research

Jan and Sally were delighted to be shortlisted along with their colleagues Nerida Wilson, (CSIRO) Tim Naish and Nick Golledge ...
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11th SCAR 2024 – Open Science Conference – Pucón, Punta Arenas, Chile, August 2024

Sally Lau opened the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) conference in Pucón, Chile this year with a Plenary Lecture! ...
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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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