Fantastic 2 days of talking Australia’s reefs: past present and future at Aust Coral Reef Soc conference! Sydney Bell Cheong Xin (CX) Chan James Gilmour Ira Cooke

Can we use coral hologenome data to assess diversity of microbial #symbionts ? New work led by Hisatake (Take) Ishida explores this Q leveraging large datasets #genomics #bioinformatics Out Frontiers protistology Cynthia Riginos ACE@UQ UQ Environment Australian Institute of Marine Science

doi.org/10.3389/frpro.…

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

Please read memories about JJ here: galaxyproject.org/news/2024-03-1…

Last chance to join Alan Rubin to learn about MaveDB from Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance!
Register now for your (virtual) seat
🗓️ Tues 26 Mar ⌚️ 1 pm AEDT
More details 👉 biocommons.org.au/events/mavedb

A bit social science, a bit genetics:

Surveying First Nations perspectives on marine genetic conservation practices

👇 our new paper out today in #BiologicalConservation

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

National Geographic National GeographicExplorers

As the Great Barrier Reef suffers its 5th mass bleaching in 8 yrs 🔥,

we Aust Coral Reef Soc society delivered our letter to government for urgent reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide to help protect Australia’s marine ecosystems.

Read it here 👉 australiancoralreefsociety.org/acrs-letter-ca…

Everybody wants to know whether corals will adapt to the warmer world. Instead, we give you a gene that appears to help corals adapt to cold. (the irony of science...) New preprint with Kristina L Black and Line K Bay: tinyurl.com/yckezju4 (short 🧵)

New review paper with celiodias and César de la Fuente

We explore how mining small peptides from (meta)genomes is different from mining full-sized enzymes and how we need new methods and approaches (AI/ML instead of sequence alignment)

doi.org/10.1002/pmic.2…

Structural variation and genetic load in inbred Scandinavian wolves, and how they are affected by a genetic rescue event.

by Linnéa Smeds, Lars SA Huson & Hans Ellegren

doi.org/10.1111/eva.13…

Check out Tanya's incredible new Word on the Reef Podcast podcast 👇 She has put together a great line-up of speakers and storytellers
Australian Marine Conservation Society

Still works for #IWD2024 ..... Thanks Kate Helmstedt!

Massive congrats Eslam Osman Raquel Peixoto and such an incredible team for capturing spatial variation in coral spawning timing in the Red Sea - read it here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… A particular shout out to all those 'on the ground' and their tireless efforts over many nights

Finally the main Allen Coral Atlas, powered by ASU paper is out! The paper acts as a scientific reference and summary of the ACA, including global reef extent, and the distribution of benthic and geomorphic class. Congratulations to paper lead Mitchell Lyons and the ACA team. doi.org/10.1016/j.crsu…

Coral twittervese, super stoked to say the pacbio long read genome of Orbicella faveolata has been published in BMC and is ready for use
link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Our paper is out in PLOS Genetics! We show that outbreaking crown-of-thorns sea stars have unexpectedly high mutation rates, similar to mammals and other low Ne species. A true interdisciplinary effort with Cynthia Riginos Lucie A Bergeron Sven Uthicke Gert Wörheide 🇪🇺🤘🏼🎸
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Very happy to have been awarded the UQ News Dean's Award for Outstanding PhD thesis! Big thanks to my supervisors and mentors NWebster_Micro Steven Robbins Laura Rix Michael Wagner for their support and feedback!