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Our marine dream team are in the antarctica.gov.au freezers.🥶 They're collecting samples for genetic and genomic work to better understand evolutionary processes in the #SouthernOcean. 🐙🦐🦑

Congratulations to ⁦Sally Lau⁩ & ⁦Dr Rachael Lappan⁩ who are the inaugural recipients of the SAEF Biddable Research funding. 👏👏👏 Aimed at ECRs, it’s an initiative designed to support innovative, high-risk science.

Pleasure to have SCAR INSTANT fellow Sally Lau in the lab this week subsampling Ophiuroids to better understand speciation in the #SouthernOcean Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future Western Australian Museum #wholegenome

Rewarding few days at Western Australian Museum to sample Antarctic critters A/Prof Zoe Richards Lisa Kirkendale + delivering a seminar on the importance of museum bio samples in understanding past and future Antarctic ice sheet changes! Funded by SCAR INSTANT! MarineOmics Nerida Wilson Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future

#Kinship analysis reveals low dispersal in a hog #deer (Axis porcinus) population in Wilsons... - goo.gl/scholar/CoADRk Top work Erin Hill! 🦌🧬🦌🧬🦌

How many blue-ringed #octopus species are there?! SNP data reveals the complex and diverse evolutionary history of the blue-ringed #octopus genus ( #Hapalochlaena)Amazing work by Brooke Whitelaw sciencedirect.com/science/articl… MarineOmics Ira Cooke CIAC James Cook Uni @CSTFA_JCU 🐙🧬🐙🧬🐙

It was a pleasure to have Andhika Prasetyo as a guest speaker today! He guided us through his recent publication on the importance of monitoring the shark and ray trade using portable DNA-based tools! James Cook Uni @CSTFA_JCU MarineOmics

Exciting #PhD opportunity available on population genomics of sub-Antarctic Heard Island and McDonald Islands benthic taxa with Prof Jan Strugnell Nerida Wilson and me! Please share widely! Deadline 24 Nov 23 For more info: marine-omics.net/phd-projects-o… Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future James Cook Uni MarineOmics

Delighted that our research is published in Science Magazine today! 🐙 🧬 Sally Lau Nerida Wilson Tim Naish @nick_golledge Ira Cooke Prof Louise Allcock Catarina Silva MarineOmics James Cook Uni Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future SCAR INSTANT

Paper is now out in Science Magazine! We found 🐙🧬 evidence for Last Interglacial West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse. Supported by Australian Research Council MBIE Australian Academy of Science Antarctic Science Ld Antarctic Science Foundation @AeRO_eResearch Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future SCAR INSTANT science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand synopsis of how we found Last Interglacial West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse using octopus DNA 🐙🧬, some of our reflections and what's next! Prof Jan Strugnell Nerida Wilson What octopus DNA tells us about Antarctic ice sheet collapse theconversation.com/what-octopus-d…

Habitat preferences of pygmy #squid Idiosepius pygmaeus and their use of conspecific cues - top work Tess Jenkins, Blake Spady in Marine Ecology James Cook Uni CIAC MarineOmics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ma… 🦑🦑🦑

Our preprint on chromosomal inversions in Acropora kenti is out today. Work with Prof Jan Strugnell, Cheong Xin (CX) Chan, Matt Field, @CRiginos and Line K Bay , others not on X, and of course Jia Zhang who did the majority of analyses biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…#biorxiv_evobio

Discovered in the deep: tiny ‘sucker-bum squid’ with martial arts moves ⁦MarineOmics⁩ 🦑 🧬 🦑 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Scientists have found oysters could be very useful in gobbling-up nutrient pollution from tropical waterways, including the Great Barrier Reef. Full story 👉 rb.gy/s0mw5t

Tropical blacklip rock #oysters have great bioremediation potential 🦪🦪🦪 MarineOmics jcu.edu.au/this-is-uni/sc…

Proud to be a part of this great work on #coral chromosomal #inversions in Molecular Ecology 🪸 🧬 🪸 🧬 🪸 MarineOmics

Octopus and Ice Sheet Team James Cook Uni MarineOmics is a finalist in the Business Events Perth Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Learn more: youtu.be/ftXnFvM1Ykk #EurekaPrizes

We had a great time presenting a public lecture at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) this week on 'Genomics for exploring change and connections through space and time'. Great questions from an engaged audience. Thnx for the invitation! Ira Cooke Prof Jan Strugnell Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future 🧬🪸🧬🇦🇶🧬

Sally Lau kicked off the SCAR CHILE 2024 conference with a plenary focused on using genomics to inform ice sheet history. Amazing talk! #scar2024 Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future MarineOmics James Cook Uni 🧬🇦🇶🐙🧬