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 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, ...
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 ...
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! ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...