Doing a bit of gardening by the pond. Think it's looking pretty good, even though it's Winter!

Sat on the Ideas Generator Panel at Writing NSW yesterday with Margaret Morgan, Elise Bohan and James Bradley. A great freewheeling discussion about the future of humanity (it's not all... facebook.com/permalink.php?…

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Happy Birthday K! facebook.com/10000914213323…

Latest Paper from EMMA lab collaborators: Maintaining a high diversity of soil microorganisms should slow the spread of antibiotic resistance genes. As with all ecosystems, diversity imparts resilience, and creates... link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Happy Birthday Margaret! You are now divisible by many numbers! facebook.com/10000914213323…

A new paper on how antibiotic pollution could fundamentally alter soil biodiversity and function. Planetary Health arises from connections between organisms and between environments, many of which are being... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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The parliamentary petition for declaring a climate emergency has reached a record number of signatures - and it doesn't... sbs.com.au/news/climate-e…

Happy belated B'day Murray! facebook.com/10000914213323…

Happy Birthday James! You look very serious in that photo! facebook.com/10000914213323…

This is a really good summary of the trouble we are in, and the problems standing in the way of a solution. It's objective, dispassionate and concise. bbc.com/news/av/embed/…

If you are interested in microbial evolution and the role of integrons, check out our recent article with Dr Vaheesan Rajabal EMMA V Lab on how to detect integrons within complex microbial communities. microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Hi folks, check out our new article in Science Advances on the Discovery of #integrons in #Archaea! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… EMMA V Lab Dr Vaheesan Rajabal Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Science and Engineering @ MQU ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology

Check out our new paper "Identification of integrons and gene cassette-associated recombination sites in bacteriophage genomes" in Frontiers frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Dr Vaheesan Rajabal

Check out our new paper in Environmental Science & Technology Journals pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… “A single-cell genomic approach for identifying uncultivated, environmental bacterial hosts of class 1 integrons” Ani (Anahit) Penesyan Dr Vaheesan Rajabal

In our latest paper with BSAC, we applied a single-cell fusion-PCR approach to explore the molecular evolution of class 1 integron gene cassettes in creek water and identify their bacterial hosts: doi.org/10.1093/jac/dk…

doi.org/10.1525/abt.20… Our lab developed an integrated undergraduate lab course on experimental evolution of petite yeast mutants.

In our recent paper published in STOTEN, we dissected class 1 integron carriage in vegetable phylloplane microbiomes and characterised an integron gene cassette that encodes chlorite resistance. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Dr Vaheesan Rajabal