Here she is - Mrs Humphries! My former biology teacher who told me in year 12 that I was ‘still hiding my light under a bushel’ and that I would soon bloom! She was so right! Thank you to all the great teachers out there who set us up so well for our careers!

This mid-sized freshwater #turtle has had more names than the artist formerly known as Prince! The species has had 4 scientific names in its time, but at least its common name is simple: Northern Red-faced Turtle.😊 📷: B Leue/#AWC #AWC #WorldTurtleDay #TurtlesOfAustralia

Fabulous presentations from our HDR students at the showcase today ✨ Holly Andrea Schraven Prof Carolyn Hogg Kathy Belov Catherine Grueber Sydney Science

Great day at Symbio Wildlife Park chatting threatened species conservation with @NSWDPE & Symbio team - awesome new facilities for turtles & frogs!! Thanks @TSCommissioner. Got to meet a couple of fur balls too!! Sydney Science Holly Kathy Belov Threatened Species Initiative

Thanks to the team at Symbio Wildlife Park for an amazing day! Got to see some amazing facilities for threatened species conservation 🐢🐸 Not to mention the cuddly encounters @NSWDPE Sydney Science

Best way to end the FY, a behind the scenes tour of Symbio Wildlife Park to check out Bellinger River Snapping Turtles, Mixophyes & Litoria. Got a few up close encounters too. Caught up with Prof Carolyn Hogg and Holly to hear their next plans for BRST genetics under #SavingourSpecies

Thanks for having me!

New #paper highlighting the need for more work and conservation efforts on Australia's freshwater #turtles. Great job leading this deborah bower 🐢 🌈 🐸 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Did a small feature for Women in Wildlife. Check it out 🧬 instagram.com/p/C2ywAHexFrF/…

That’s a wrap Rainforest Connections 2024 👏 Amazing job by the team NSW Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Water

Super excited to announce the publication of the Bilby genome today in Nature Ecology & Evolution tinyurl.com/2s67ck9r Massive effort by a great team of scientists, conservation managers & Indigenous Rangers! Sydney Science Kathy Belov A 🧵

Bilbies are weird! Chromosome 1 is massive - 934 Mbp - that's bigger than some fish genomes. Their X-chromosome has fused to the end of chromosome 2 - making the X the second largest chromosome. Our synteny map shows how they differ to other marsupials

Congratulations Lucy Ockert on your first publication. Pouch microbiome differences in Tasmanian devils! Dr Elle McLennan Kathy Belov Sydney Science Lee Rollins nature.com/articles/s4159…

Great talks by Arthur Georges and Prof Carolyn Hogg on generating genomic resources for threatened species through AusARGenomics and Threatened Species Initiative initiatives 🧬 Genetics AustralAsia

New #bioinformatics workflows available! Luke Silver and Anna Syme have made assembling and annotating reference genomes accessible to everyone 👏 Discover how threatened species are supported by #bioinformatics 👇 biocommons.org.au/news/tsi-workf… #genomics Bioplatforms Australia

"My father realised that I had an interest in science," recalls Distinguished Professor Arthur Georges FAA (University of Canberra). "He was a politician and he brought me to Canberra quite often and one year, he took me across to show me the Shine Dome." Arthur, now a world-leading

Super proud, Holly first paper from her PhD published! A genomic framework to assist in conservation breeding & translocation success - using the Bellinger River turtle as a case study Kathy Belov Dr Elle McLennan Jane DeGabriel Arthur Georges conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cs…

The final piece of work from my PhD on koala MHC diversity, out now in immunogenetics. We show what is possible with a large number of high coverage genomes Prof Carolyn Hogg Kathy Belov Dr Elle McLennan link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congratulations Holly - PhD thesis submitted… amazing effort!

Submitted! Thanks to everyone who came on this journey with me 💕🧬