2012 News archive
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| December 2012 |
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| Honours student receives grant for plant systematics 18 December 2012 |
| November 2012 |
| Research presented at Phylomania 12 November 2012 |
| ARC funding to study ancient human DNA 2 November 2012 |
| October 2012 |
| Deep-sea isopods confirmed to be ancient 11 October 2012 |
| September 2012 |
| Genome-invading retroviruses are a nasty surprise: The case of the koalas 23 September 2012 |
| August 2012 |
| Zoo polar bear killed by zebra virus 17 August 2012 |
| July 2012 |
| Workshop on phylogenetics 26 July 2012 |
| Workshop on phylogenetics 19 July 2012 |
| Termite collecting in the Top End 16 July 2012 |
| May 2012 |
| Modern dogs have little in common with ancient breeds 22 May 2012 |
| PhD student wins Australian Biological Resources Study grant 15 May 2012 |
| April 2012 |
| Seminar at the Chinese Academy of Sciences 16 April 2012 |
| New members of MEEP in 2012 2 April 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.
Members of the MEEP lab presented their work at the Phylomania conference in Hobart, Tasmania.
Dr Simon Ho from the MEEP research group has been awarded a Discovery Project grant from the Australian Research Council.
Evolution, extinction and recolonisation. These processes formed the core of Luana Lins's exploration into the isopods of the deep sea.
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.
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.
The MEEP lab ran a 2-day workshop on phylogenetic analysis at the University of Sydney
Four MEEP lab members recently collected termites in the Northern Territory with scientists from Queensland, Japan, and Belgium.
Interbreeding of dogs over thousands of years has made it extremely difficult to trace the ancient genetic roots of today's pets, according to a new study
MEEP PhD student Tim Lee has won a 3-year, $33,000 grant from the Australian Biological Resources Study to study an Australian pest termite.
Dr Simon Ho gave a seminar entitled "Estimating evolutionary time-scales using DNA" at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. 
The MEEP lab welcomes a number of new postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, visitors, and volunteers in 2012.