Over 41% of amphibian species are threatened with extinction. The challenges they face are huge—but so are the successes. I'm honored to contribute to this new paper offering a rare optimistic look at amphibian conservation.

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🌍✨ Why genome sequence mega-diverse countries?
A handful of countries hold >70% of Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity — packed with species found nowhere else. These places are evolution’s playground… and extinction’s front line.

#Biodiversity 🌿 #GenomeSequencing 🧬
#Genomics 🔬 #ConservationGenomics 🌍

Targeted genetic intervention provides a new tool for #conservation to help corroboree frogs persist despite threats such as chytridiomycosis, reports @tiffanykosch.bsky.social #ICCB2025

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Funded PhD project with scholarship at UTas with Menna Jones [email protected] (March 2025) www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...

Please join the upcoming AGC meeting to learn more about the Tree of Sex Consortium from Daniel Jeffries.

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This week the AGC hosted an excellent seminar by Kin Onn Chan from the Kansas Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum.

You can watch Kin's talk and the many others we have lined up for the year by joining the AGC at go.unimelb.edu.au/k2ss

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸

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And not only did we find a range of phenotypic variation across the species, from susceptible
➡️ tolerant ➡️ resistant.

But we also found significant differences in outcomes and influences between repeated experimental exposures in this Critically Endangered #frog 🐸