Dr Marina Alexander

CSIRO scientist, mother of three, working to improve #OneHealth resilience to viral threats. #genomics #highcontainment and #museums #caringforcountry #HB7

[Dr Marina Alexander @mralexandervir]

So excited to be part of this highly impactful work. What a great outcome for @CSIRO Collections

[Clare Holleley (@clareholleley.bsky.social) @HolleleyClare]

The Epigenetic Time Machine has officially launched! Out today in Nature Communications - our chromatin profiles from century-old FIXED specimens! https://t.co/SFD93Qoq73
A game-changer for museums! @erin_e_hahn @mralexandervir @c_frere @NicolaEKent

[Dr Marina Alexander @mralexandervir]

Check out andyat’s progress on Duolingo, the fun and effective way to learn a language! https://t.co/NfwloD8yGr

[Michelle Wille @DuckSwabber]

New update from BAS. Sadly HPAI now detected in wandering albatross - the largest albatross species in the world.

[Dr Marina Alexander @mralexandervir]

Agreed! It’s not a wholistic approach to prevention, just more bandaids.

[Dr Erin Hahn (she/her) @erin_e_hahn]

📢Hot off the presses, my team's step-by-step bench protocol for selecting and processing formalin-fixed museum specimens for gDNA extraction and WGS!

https://t.co/QtDxbdh4X2

#PLOSONE #museomics @HolleleyClare @mralexandervir

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Women's stewardship of forests holds key to #ClimateAction.

At #COP28, UNEP 2022 #EarthChamps winner Cécile Ndjebet explains why securing women’s rights to land is essential for ecosystem restoration & a sustainable future.

[Leo Hickman @LeoHickman]

The protest at COP28 by Licypriya Kangujam, a 12-year-old climate-justice activist from India, leads the frontpage of the Financial Times

Neatly illustrates why these stunts can have so much impact

Will be one of the defining images of this COP

[Global Climate and Health Alliance @GCHAlliance]

⚡️#Cop28Dubai World Climate Action Summit:
Health workers video message challenges world leaders to “Make COP28 Count”

[First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria @firstpeoplesvic]

We acknowledge the many non-Aboriginal people who support us and are also hurting with the referendum result.

Thank you for your solidarity 💪🏽

This graphic is mob and ally friendly.

Feel free to share it to show your support 🖤💛❤️

[DEECA Victoria @DEECA_Vic]

🦅 To mark the final day of Biodiversity Month, we're providing a bird's eye view of the 20,000 trees planted at Werribee River Park.
🌲 It’s part of our More Trees for a Cooler Greener West program that’s planting 500,000 new trees in Melbourne’s western suburbs.

[Clare Holleley (@clareholleley.bsky.social) @HolleleyClare]

If you are interested in working on this and related areas, we are currently hiring: https://t.co/5PYc7eo81L

[Clare Holleley (@clareholleley.bsky.social) @HolleleyClare]

Did you know that my team @CSIRO built a time machine? Well... we did! An epigenetic time machine. New @biorxivpreprint describing century-old signatures of gene-regulation. I reckon the @epigenetichulk might be interested in this one? #MuseumGenomics. Link in thread:

[Dr Marina Alexander @mralexandervir]

Welcome Brett! Delighted to hear you’ll be our new Director!

[CSIRO @CSIRO]

We're delighted to share that Professor Brett Sutton has been appointed our new Director of Health and Biosecurity.

Brett joins us from his current role as @VictorianCHO where he has provided expert advice on the health and wellbeing of Victorians.

More: https://t.co/tyt7gJPyj0

[Dr Marina Alexander @mralexandervir]

@KatLeppek fantastic talk! Really enjoyed hearing about specialized ribosomes.

[Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social @markgkenny]

Thanks Paul! @canberratimes #insiders

[Dr Marina Alexander @mralexandervir]

Exciting technician opportunity in Canberra!

[Dr Erin Hahn (she/her) @erin_e_hahn]

📢 Come join my team at @CSIRO and help build tools for sampling DNA from the air!

We're looking for an enthusiastic technician with experience with DNA extractions, sequencing and qPCR. 🧬

Location: Canberra, AUS
Open to AUS/NZ citizens/PR
Apply: https://t.co/WVWnCizi3n

[Dr Marina Alexander @mralexandervir]

@CSIRO Broccoli!

[Nicola Waldron @nicolacwaldron]

Diversity in STEM review - Opportunity to share experiences with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to inform a vision for increased diversity, engagement and skills in STEM.
Consult open until 11 April 2023
https://t.co/UjRvqXqwaS

[Dr Marina Alexander @mralexandervir]

Novo Nordisk Foundation, Open Philanthropy, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be supporting our Henipavirus work to develop New Antiviral Medicines for Future Pandemics. - can’t wait to get started! https://t.co/Gw2NGMXTlr