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To investigate the behaviours of marine microorganisms at spatially relevant scales, we engineered an in situ chemotaxis assay (ISCA) based on microfluidic technology!

ACE director, Prof Phil Hugenholtz was inducted today as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences in Canberra. 

Check out this video by the Australian Academy of Science on Prof Hugenholtz's landmark contributions to the understanding of uncultured microbial diversity, evolution and ecology.

ACE members Rochelle Soo, Donovan Parks and Phil Hugenholtz recently published their research "On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria" in Science.

Together with the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC), The University of Queensland is organising the next GSC Workshop in Brisbane, Australia from 15th – 17th May 2017.

Prof Phil Hugenholtz, the director of ACE, delivered the keynote address at the Microbiome R & D and Business Collaboration Congress in Hong Kong March 1-2nd.

The Australian Research Council's (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) recognizes promising early career researchers and provides them with up to three years of support. It is a highly competitive award, with only 200 being awarded nationwide. Congratulations Paul!

The purpose of this award is to recognise distinguished contributions in any area of Australian research in microbiology by scientists in a formative stage of their career, rather than to reward senior scientists for a lifetime of achievement.

Global warming is causing vast areas of permafrost to thaw. Research by ACE just published in Nature Communications and discussed in UQ news reports a novel family of microbes that flourish as permafrost thaws.

ACE director, Phil Hugenholtz, was awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship on his favourite topic, microbial evolution and classification.

Professor Philip Hugenholtz was awarded $2.98m for his research in microbial ecology and genomics.