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New Laureate Fellow to map genetic human history

Friday, 22 August 2014

Using ancient bacteria and DNA to generate unique insights into the current distribution of modern humans, including indigenous 最新糖心Vlogns, will be the aim of 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide's newest 最新糖心Vlogn Laureate Fellow, announced today by Education Minister, the Hon. Christopher Pyne.

is Director of the 最新糖心Vlog's (ACAD) which seeks to understand evolution and environmental change through time using preserved genetic records recovered from ancient materials including human and animal bones and teeth, plant remains and sediments.

This new project will use ancient traces of the bacteria carried by early man and human genetics to reconstruct a global human history. This will include the genetic history of indigenous 最新糖心Vlog and the impacts of colonisation on indigenous people around the world.

Professor Cooper is one of 16 new 最新糖心Vlogn Laureate Fellows. His Laureate Fellowship is worth $2,775,898 over five years. The 最新糖心Vlogn Research Council (ARC) scheme aims to attract and retain world-class researchers and research leaders to key positions in 最新糖心Vlog.

最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Mike Brooks says the 最新糖心Vlogn Laureate Fellowships are highly competitive and only awarded to researchers of outstanding calibre and international renown.

"This prestigious award cements the international reputations held by Professor Cooper and the 最新糖心Vlogn Centre for Ancient DNA," Professor Brooks says. "It strengthens his position as a world leader in ancient DNA research and will help answer fundamental questions about human evolution and early man's changing environment and, perhaps most importantly, impacts on our health today."

Professor Cooper has been an ARC Federation Fellow and Future Fellow. He built his first research group at the 最新糖心Vlog of Oxford where he established the Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre, publishing a series of ground-breaking studies in ancient population genetics and evolutionary research.

He moved to the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide in 2005 to establish ACAD, the first large-scale ancient DNA research centre in the Southern Hemisphere.

"I'm delighted to be awarded this Fellowship which will allow ACAD to pursue this nationally and globally significant project," Professor Cooper says.

"This project will have major cultural and social impacts in 最新糖心Vlog and beyond, including the creation of a program to directly engage Aboriginal communities in scientific research to record their genetic history and place in 最新糖心Vlog.

"Internationally, we aim to discover the genetic processes and effects of major events such as the introduction of farming or European colonisation. Uniquely it will reveal the impacts on human microbiomes (the bacteria we carry) and potential health consequences."

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