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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Edel Sheerin awarded funds from the Antarctic Science Foundation
Edel Sheerin was awarded funding from the Antarctic Science Foundation to sequence a reference genome for the seastar Glabraster antarctica. This ...
Joshua Lesicar named 2026 Rhodes Scholar!
Biggest congratulations to honours student Joshua Lesicar who has been awarded a 2026 Rhodes Scholarship! Josh is an Honours student ...
Eva Paulus presents at the Society for Marine Mammalogy ANZ
Eva attended the Society for Marine Mammalogy Australia/New Zealand Student Chapter Student Conference in Auckland recently, presenting on her whole-genome ...
Sophie Renton wins best poster at ACRS
Sophie presented her poster on extracting DNA from unculturable Coral Symbionts at Queensland Museum in Townsville. She won first prize ...
Australian Museum Eureka Prizes 2025 Winners!
Jan Strugnell and Sally Lau were part of the Octopus and Ice Sheet team who won the Aspire Scholarship Eureka ...
Joe Perkins detects toxic dinoflagellate species in Hervey Bay, Australia
Joe Perkin’s latest research, published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, provides the first comprehensive assessment of harmful dinoflagellate communities in Hervey ...
Nadja Schneller presents her review paper at the International Congress for Conservation Biology conference
With Nadja's review on the role of chromosomal inversions in the management of marine environments hot off the press in ...
Edel Sheerin presents at Pint of Science
Edel Sheerin spoke about Life on the seafloor of a sub-Antarctic sunken continent at Pint of Science at Heritage Exchange ...
Edel Sheerin presents at the Kerguelen Plateau Symposium in Concarneau, France
Edel Sheerin was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the recent Kerguelen Plateau Symposium in Concarneau, France! She presented ...
Joe Perkins presents at the eDNA conference in Wellington, NZ
Joseph Perkins recently attended the eDNA Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, supported by a bursary from the Fisheries Research and ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...