People
Academic staff
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| A/Prof Nathan Lo | A/Prof Simon Ho |
Postdoctoral researchers
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| Dr Yoshi Hayashi | Dr Vicky McCarl | Dr Grace Wei |
Postgraduate research students
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| Katie Robinson | Martyna Molak | Luana Lins | Tim Lee | Sebastián Duchêne | Nirosha Ranawaka |
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| Daej Arab |
Honours students
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| Charles Foster | Ashley Montagu | Kwei Jun Tong |
Visitors and volunteers
- Lindsay, undergraduate volunteer

The MEEP lab in 2013. L-R: Jun, Sebastian, Nathan, Ashley, Simon, Tim, Luana, Charles, Katie, Martyna, Vicky, and Grace. Absent: Yoshi, Daej, and Nirosha. Photo by Malcolm Ricketts.

The MEEP lab in 2012. L-R: Nathan, Sebastian, Luana, Tim, Yoshi, Martyna, Vicky, Kiyoto, and Simon. Absent: Katie and Ainsley.

The MEEP lab in 2011. Simon, Tim, Martyna, Luana, and Nathan.
Collaborators
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Copenhagen
- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin
- Phillip Endicott (Musée de l'Homme)
- Jaime Gongora (University of Sydney)
- Rob Lanfear (Australian National University)
- Greger Larson (Durham University)
- Urmas Saarma (University of Tartu)
- Beth Shapiro (UC Santa Cruz)
- George 'Buz' Wilson (Australian Museum)
- Chaodong Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Past members
Postgraduate research students
- Julien Soubrier (University of Adelaide)
PhD Student, completed 2012, supervised by Alan Cooper, Wolfgang Haak, Michael Lee, & Simon Ho
Thesis: What (molecular) time is it? Using ancient DNA to accurately date evolutionary events
Honours students
- Tim Lee
Honours Student, 2011, supervised by Nathan Lo, Simon Ho, & Buz Wilson (Australian Museum)
Thesis: Systematics and biogeography in the genus Spherillo, with a focus on Spherillo grossus - Lauren van der Kraan
Honours Student, 2011, supervised by Kathy Belov (Vet), Nathan Lo, & Beata Ujvari (Vet)
Thesis: Characterisation of natural killer cell receptor genes in the Tasmanian devil genome - Shannan Langford Salisbury
Honours Student, 2010-2011, supervised by Jaime Gongora (Vet) & Simon Ho
Thesis: Genetic study of chickens from Norfolk Island
Visitors and volunteers
- Shuravi Paul, undergraduate volunteer, Nov 2012 - Feb 2013
- Yihan Qu, postgraduate volunteer, Oct-Dec 2012
- Dr Ainsley Seago, visiting academic from CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Mar-Dec 2012
- A/Prof Kiyoto Maekawa, visiting academic from University of Toyama, Apr-Aug 2012
- Christian Bruhn, visiting PhD student from University of Copenhagen, May-Jul 2011
- Craig Coorey, undergraduate volunteer, 2012
- Katy Schlotfeldt, undergraduate volunteer, 2012














