Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Biodiversity, eDNA, genomics, coral reefs, symbiosis. Maker and lover of pizza.

Joined July 2018
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What a better way to spend the #WorldOysterDay than in the #NSWOysterConference! Super excited to be here!
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#weeg2019 @SETAC_AU @MQBiology The inaugural workshop in the beautiful Blue Mountains is just kicking off @rdudaniec
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New paper on #eDNA in different substrates from Adam Koziol based on his honours research in Australia and Kazakhstan. Well played Adam et al. (@StatMichael @Curtin_TrEnD @FisheriesWA; with support from @Chevron @CurtinEandA @PawseyCentre @arc_gov_au). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

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Dine and dash with @daveharasti, Michael Bunce @Curtin_TrEnD, and @StatMichael. A great morning spent discussing the highlights and lowlights of #eDNA #fisheries research in Australia and beyond with the folks @nswdpi in Port Stephens. @AustmusResearch
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The new journal Environmental DNA is now accepting submissions ! Submit your best stuff to us ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/jour… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/jour…#eDNA #ancientDNA #noninvasivesampling #metabarcoding #metagenomics #microbes #pathogens @eDNA_papers @eDNAmonitoring @fishcongen
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Get ready !!!: The new journal "Environmental DNA" will start receiving submissions in 2-3 weeks. Free for the first 6 months! Share !! #eDNA #ancientDNA #noninvasivesampling #metabarcoding #metagenomics #microbes #pathogens @eDNA_papers @eDNAmonitoring @fishcongen @ibis_laval
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AND with open access publishing free for submissions in the first six months! Give our editorial board the chance to make even the smallest #eDNA discovery learned! @LouBernatchez
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Molecules & Movies Combined use of eDNA metabarcoding and video surveillance for the assessment of fish biodiversity - Stat - - Conservation Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

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Excited to be EIC of "Environmental DNA", a new journal covering broad-sense #eDNA work #ancientDNA #noninvasivesampling #metabarcoding #metagenomics #microbes #pathogens We will soon start receiving submissions in October @eDNA_papers @eDNAmonitoring @fishcongen Stay tuned!
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Michael Stat retweeted
Our coral microbiome database paper is out in pre-print if you’re keen to check it out 👍 Great working with @AmyApprill
Coral Microbiome Database: Integration of sequences reveals high diversity and relatedness of coral‐associated microbes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… by @m_huggett @AmyApprill
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Some interesting #student research on range expanding rabbitfish and their microbiomes in coastal Australia @Curtin_TrEnD, @AustmusResearch, @austmus, @CurtinUni, @EdithCowanUni
Proud supervisor moment, my first undergraduate Honours student has published her research: The microbiome of the gastrointestinal tract of a range-shifting marine herbivorous fish frontiersin.org/article/10.3… @joey_squishfish @StatMichael
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For our last #SharkWeek #7daysofSharkScientists is the developer of the baited remote underwater stereo-video system, Dr. Euan Harvey of @curtinuniversity. This system allows us to estimate the size of #sharks from remotely collected videos. buff.ly/2LBkcYY 📷@somenjoan
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Should we conserve phylogenetic diversity? natureecoevocommunity.nature… #behindthepaper 'Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably' in @NatureComms

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Combined use of eDNA metabarcoding and video surveillance for the assessment of fish biodiversity - Stat - - Conservation Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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A great write-up in Science about some recent work I was lucky to be involved in from the TrEnD Lab science.sciencemag.org/conte…

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Ancient seafarers may have hunted whales around the world sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/…

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