ARC funding to study ancient human DNA
Dr Simon Ho has been awarded a Discovery Project grant from the Australian Research Council to conduct research on ancient mitochondrial DNA from humans. The work will be led jointly with Dr Wolfgang Haak and Dr Bastien Llamas from the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide. The work will generate ~200 …
PhD student wins Australian Biological Resources Study grant
MEEP PhD student Tim Lee has won a 3-year, $33,000 grant from the Australian Biological Resources Study to study the systematics of the Australian pest termite genus Coptotermes, and to write up two papers from his Honours project on the systematics and evolution of the Australian endemic isopod Spherillo grossus. The termite work will be …
Early career win in molecular evolution
Dr Simon Ho has won an Early Career Researcher Award from the Genetics Society of Australasia for making an outstanding contribution to the field of genetics within five years of his PhD. An expert in molecular evolution, Dr Ho’s impressive body of work includes 57 peer-reviewed articles, which have been collectively cited over 2,300 times. …