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Jenny has a new email address: jovenden@molfishlab.com.au If you are getting error messages from zljovend@uq.edu.au, please use this new email as an alternative. The UQ email address should be back in action from Friday, 10th Jan 2014.
Ms Kay Weltz is a PhD student at the University of Tasmania working on “Genetic population structure and population ecology of the endangered Maugean skate in western Tasmania”. Kay’s supervisors are Jayson Semmens, Adam Barnett and Jeremy Lyle from Tasmania and Jennifer Ovenden from MFL.
MFL welcomes PhD student Ms Carolina Vargas-Caro. Carolina’s supervisors are Jennifer Ovenden, Mike Bennett and Ian Tibbetts and her thesis title is “Biological assessment of skate fisheries in the south-east Pacific Ocean”.
The first gemfish samples from the project to understand the biological stock structure of this species in southern Australia have been analysed. DNA sequences from the mitochondrial genome are part of the genetic data that will be used.
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Getting into the Guinness Book of Records is a lifetime goal for many. We did it by discovering hybridisation between two species of sharks. The original article can be found here. The lead author Jess Morgan is an MFL associate.
Here is an incredible educational film-clip by fisher Ben Bright demonstrating how to take a fin clip from a small black marlin safely and unassisted. Fin-clips like this are being used for genetic analysis by post-graduate student Sam Williams. Learn more about the Black Marlin project here. The project is a partnership between the Game Fishing Association of […]
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University of Queensland PhD student Jenny Giles received a 2013 Sir Keith Murdoch Fellowship from the American Australian Association in New York, US on 4th November 2013 (photo: Malcolm Binks Chairman of AAA and Jenny Giles). Jenny is co-supervised by Cynthia Riginos and Jennifer Ovenden. Jennifer leads the Molecular Fisheries Laboratory. A new paper from […]
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During a recent meeting in Adelaide, the Great Australian Bight Research Assessment Group (GABRAG) discussed the western gemfish project and the biology of this species. Those who attended the meeting included (left to right) Ian Knuckey, Jim Raptis, Andy Moore, Jeff Moore, Marcus Finn and Andrew Trappett (photo Jeff Moore).
Click here to view the Oct/Nov 2013 Newsletter. And click here to get more details about Project: Black Marlin.