EVENT: 'Dingo DNA to Sheep Smarts' Pint of Science AU Explore the history of dingos through ancient DNA and the truth behind how clever sheep are! 🧠 🍻 + 🔬 - what a combo! 📅 13 May ⏰7pm 💲 $8 📍 Wheatsheaf Hotel, Thebarton pintofscience.com.au/event/dingo-dn… Australian Centre for Ancient DNA

Dr Gludhug Purnomo’s invited talk on human genetic research in Wallacea and Sahul showed how community engagement benefits both researchers and the local populations. Great to catch Gludi at the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories conference #ISBER

ACAD postdoc Yassine Souilmi gave a wonderful #PintOfScience talk on #Dingoes last night to a very engaged and inquisitive audience

Forget Jurassic Park - today we bring you research which delves into real ancient DNA! ⛏🦖 Read about @SiobhanEvans13 from Uni of Adelaide's Australian Centre for Ancient DNA technique of extracting DNA from cave sediments & what it tells us 👇 adelaide.edu.au/environment/ne… Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology @DNATimeTravel

PhD candidate Siobhan Evans has written a short info article on sedimentary ancient DNA in Australian caves and rock-shelters adelaide.edu.au/environment/ne…

🐶 The latest from ACAD researchers and collaborators lead by Yassine Souilmi. Ancient genomes reveal over two thousand years of dingo population structure pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… #ancientDNA #genomics #dingoes #dogs

Aotearoa-NZ’s unique fauna provides a fascinating opportunity to explore how plants and fungi interact with the sensory systems of animals. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Colourful fungi from New Zealand are adapted for bird dispersal - but do they now remain as ghosts of past mutualisms, much like the large tropical fruit once eaten by gomphotheres? New Marsden Fund research theconversation.com/colourful-frui…

We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to reconstruct Australia’s pre-European mammal communities using ancient sedimentary and bulk-bone DNA. For further details, please see: lnkd.in/eBC_kpS9

Congratulations to Thom Harvey on a stellar CCSP talk about his work in "Reconstructing pre-European mammalian and plant diversity in central and western New South Wales to inform conservation management" using sedimentary DNA. He is supervised by Jamie Wood and Damien Fordham.

PHD SCHOLARSHIPS: ENVIRONMENTAL #GENOMICS & #BIODIVERSITY #CONSERVATION Hiring 2 PhD students to prevent extinctions of Australia’s threatened mammals with #DNA. You will be part of an Australian Research Council project with a large & diverse team. Come join us! 👇👇 scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/?title=+PHD+SC…

Thrilled to share our preprint on Portugal’s genetic history! 🇵🇹

PhD candidate Dawn A Lewis joined Aboriginal and Māori biomolecular researchers at the @BMH2024Melb presenting on #codesign of #Indigenous #sedaDNAresearch

Save the date for the 11th of October and join us in the Napier G04 Lt at 2:00pm for our panel event as we welcome four professional women in STEM discuss their journey in academia. Afterward we will be having a networking event at the UniBar , with food served.

Bringing you the 3rd series of HAAM-Radio Webinar! This time we’ll talk about Southeast Asian and Oceanian population. Don’t forget to register yourself to receive the zoom link.

One of our very own will be speaking about her journey in science! Be sure to come along if you can, it should be a great event🧬

Massive congratulations to Caitlin Mudge for giving her PhD completion seminar to the EEB crowd! It was amazing to hear all about the amazing work she has been doing within the ancient DNA field during the last few years 🎉 #aDNA #Australianmammals #quaternaryperiod

Thanks to Australasian Genomic Technologies Association AGTA for organising a great conference. Thanks to RONIN for sponsoring our PhD student Shyam. He had a great time presenting about ancient DNA and a method to reduce DNA contamination. Congrats for best student presentation! #agta2024

If you watch closely, you might spot ACAD PhD candidate Colin Sobek OBS WB

Congratulations to PhD candidate Tessa Manning on her phascogale sperm storage publication in Australian Mammalogy doi.org/10.1071/AM24021