Simon Jarman Biobanking - Blue Sky Horizons (ABNA 19th Annual Conference)

Simon Jarman

Professor Jarman is interested in applications of genomics in environmental research. He has worked extensively with environmental DNA analysis and its application to diverse ecological questions. Biobanking of environmental DNA or samples that contain it is one of his specific interests in this area as this is the only way to utilise the potential for environmental DNA to measure long-term ecological change. His research interests also include genomic analysis of animal population biology. A specific interest in this area is the development of epigenetic clocks to measure animal age from tissue samples. The calibration of these clocks requires sets of tissue samples from animals of known age and he worked with biobanked material to develop the first epigenetic clocks for estimating the age of whales. He is currently Professor of Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Western Australia and has held research positions at Curtin University, the University of Porto, CSIRO and the Australian Antarctic Division.