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Measuring Biodiversity with eDNA

To count the fish species present, we compared our eDNA methods with more conventional methods, like filming fishes underwater.

Environomics Newsletter December 2019

Read our second newsletter sent out in December 2019, with a research highlight, profiled ECR and link to our second video.

Environomics Newsletter May 2019

Read our newsletter sent out in May 2019, with a research highlight, ECR profile and workshop summary.

Museum epigenetics: Charting the future by unlocking the past

Environomics researchers have described the potential of museum specimens to yield information on which genes were turned on and off in the past to enable animals to respond to environmental change.

The first evidence is in, in the case of mysterious microbes

In a paper just published Xiao Deng and colleagues showed that sulfate-reducing bacteria can use self-synthesized FeS nanoparticles on their cell surface to acquire energy.

A genomic predictor of lifespan in vertebrates

Ben Mayne, early career researcher, together with colleagues from the Environomics FSP have discovered a simple way to estimate how long a species lives using DNA.

Unlocking the secrets of mysterious microbes

In June, we delved a little deeper into the science of energy acquisition beneath the surface of the earth and published a blog about Xiao Deng’s ‘shocking’ research.

Gold-coated fungi are the new gold diggers

Working on new and exciting methods of cultivating sub surface microbes, one of our early career researchers, Dr Xiao Deng has contributed to the recently published findings of gold-coated fungal strands in the soil near Boddington in Western Australia.

An echidna looking back and up at the camera

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Environomics, short for environmental genomics, is a new CSIRO science program exploring the limits of what is possible at the interface between genomics and environmental science.

Nature unites us

Should I tell you that a bunch of Environomics postdocs met on Rottnest and reveal exactly what they got up to? Or can I just say this....