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Museums

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:34:33 +0800

Museums play a key roll in the research activities of most ancient DNA research labs. Most people who attend museums are unaware that what they see on display is only a tiny fraction of the material in the museum collection. Maintaining these collections for scientific research is both costly and time consuming. Below is a list of links to museums/curators that our lab is indebted to for assistance with current or past research projects:

Australia:

Western Australian Museum (Dr Ric How)

New Zealand:

Te Papa (Trevor Worthy, Alan Tennyson)

Canterbury Museum (Dr Paul Scofield)

Otago Museum (Sue Heath)

Auckland Museum (Dr Brian Gill)

United Kingdom:

Natural History Muesum (Dr Sandra Chapman)

Natural History Museum, Bird collections, Tring (Dr Robert Prys-Jones, Dr Jo Cooper and Mark Adams).

Oxford Natural History Museum (Malgosia Nowak-Kemp)

Granting bodies

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:21:21 +0800

The lab is grateful to the following institutions/agencies for financial assistance with the labs research program:

Australian Research Council (Discover Grant DP0771971)

Murdoch University (Early Career Research Grants)

Conservation and Land Management - Western Australia (CALM)

Marsden Fund, Royal Society, New Zealand

Other collaborating laboratories

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:18:35 +0800

Wildlife Genetics Lab (WGL), Murdoch University. (Dr. Peter Spencer)

Paleocol Research Ltd. (Prof Richard Holdaway)

Other aDNA labs

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:52:11 +0800

The following is a list of labs (ancient DNA and related disciplines) that our lab has ongoing collaborations with:

McMaster University ancient DNA centre, Ontartio, Canada

Centre for Ancient Genetics, Niels Bohr Institute & Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Ancient Biomolecules Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

Dr Ian Barnes ancient DNA lab, Royal Holloway, University of London

Software

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:08:39 +0800

listed below are a list of collaborators, granting bodies, museums and software that makes this research possible.

geneious: An amazing cross platform program for sequence alignment and analysis: I can't recommend it highly enough. (www.geneious.com)

4Peaks: software for viewing sequence chromatographs (http://mekentosj.com/4peaks/)

MrBayes: software for baysian analysis of DNA sequence data. (http://mrbayes.csit.fsu.edu/)

SE-AL: sequence alignment software (http://evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk/software.html?id=seal)

TreeEdit: Software to view phylogenetic trees (http://evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk/software.html?id=treeedit)