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Martyna Molak wins Postgraduate Research Prize[16 May 2013]
MEEP PhD student Martyna Molak has been awarded the Faculty Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement. More
Scholarship for PhD student Martyna Molak[9 April 2013]
MEEP PhD student Martyna Molak has been awarded a scholarship from the Winton Charitable Foundation. This scholarship supports student projects that span both mathematics and biology. More
PhD student wins Science Without Borders scholarship[21 January 2013]
PhD student Luana Lins has won a 2-year 'Science Without Borders' top-up scholarship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. This will fund her project on the evolution of deep-sea isopods. More
Honours student receives grant for plant systematics[18 December 2012]
Honours student Charles Foster has been awarded the 2012 Hansjorg Eichler Research Grant from the Australasian Systematic Botany Society to investigate the systematic relationships and biogeography of Logania. More
Research presented at Phylomania[12 November 2012]
Members of the MEEP lab presented their work at the Phylomania conference in Hobart, Tasmania. More
ARC funding to study ancient human DNA[2 November 2012]
Dr Simon Ho from the MEEP research group has been awarded a Discovery Project grant from the Australian Research Council. More
Deep-sea isopods confirmed to be ancient[11 October 2012]
Evolution, extinction and recolonisation. These processes formed the core of Luana Lins's exploration into the isopods of the deep sea. More
Genome-invading retroviruses are a nasty surprise: The case of the koalas[23 September 2012]
An international team of scientists, including Dr Simon Ho from the University of Sydney, has found that the koala genome is slowly being invaded by a retrovirus associated with Chlamydia infection and leukaemia. More
Zoo polar bear killed by zebra virus[17 August 2012]
In research highlighted in Nature, researchers including Dr Simon Ho have reported that a polar bear in a German zoo was killed by a zebra virus. Such species-jumping viruses can threaten the conservation mission of zoos. More
Workshop on phylogenetics[26 July 2012]
The MEEP lab ran a 2-day workshop on phylogenetic analysis at the University of Sydney More
Workshop on phylogenetics[19 July 2012]
A workshop on phylogenetics will be run by the MEEP lab at the University of Sydney More
Termite collecting in the Top End[16 July 2012]
Four MEEP lab members recently collected termites in the Northern Territory with scientists from Queensland, Japan, and Belgium. More