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Australian Centre for Ancient DNA

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8313 3952

Address: Darling Building, North Terrace Campus, University of Adelaide 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/acad

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16.01.2022 Working with genomes requires big data and high performance computing: ACAD researcher Dr Yassine Souilmi helped Ronin (partner of Amazon Web Services) work through solutions for high demand storage and processing times to assist with biological research https://www.crn.com.au//canberra-aws-partner-ronin-brings-

16.01.2022 Cleaning and curating sequencing data for data bases is hard work: A newly created Amphibian database published in Genbank corrects mis-assigned taxonomies and much more, read https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00598-9

16.01.2022 Recovering DNA from metal surfaces can be a hit or miss, and improving the 'miss' percentage can help forensic cases a review of methods by our PhD Student Dan Bonsu has recently been published in Science & Justice https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S1355030619302928

13.01.2022 Looking for some science watching? The Great Acceleration available on ABC i-view is our pick this month: A science-history series that investigates human endeavour and discovery. From the space shuttle to rise of computing power, food waste, the evolution of life and much more. https://iview.abc.net.au/show/great-acceleration

10.01.2022 ACAD's Salvador Herrando-Perez writes on climate: "Citizens ask the expert in climate physics" with Ken Caldeira https://bit.ly/3qciVZJ

07.01.2022 Happy days for our PhD Candidate Caitlin Selway who submitted her PhD thesis for review! One of her studies investigated the potential to improve skin and nasal microbiome diversity via spending time in urban green spaces you can read the published results here https://www.sciencedirect.com//arti/pii/S0160412020320390

06.01.2022 COVID19 has adversely affected our lives abruptly and quickly, but it causes us to reflect that climate change impacts us in the same way albeit not as obvious. Bloggers Drs Herrando-Perez and Vieites break it down scientifically https://conservationbytes.com//double-standards-climate-/