Precision Phylogenomics: accurately inferring the tree of life. This project aims to achieve one of the holy grails of evolutionary biology - accurately reconstructing the tree of life for major group

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Precision Phylogenomics: accurately inferring the tree of life. This project aims to achieve one of the holy grails of evolutionary biology - accurately reconstructing the tree of life for major groups of microorganisms like bacteria and viruses. Such reconstructions are vital to areas like public health, biosecurity, agriculture, and conservation because they allow for the rapid and accurate identification of microorganisms. The project will work closely with local and global databases of microorganism genomes, develop new and scalable ways of inferring their evolutionary relationships, and apply these to more than 1000 major groups of viruses, bacteria, and archaea. By improving public databases, the project will have direct benefits for Australia and globally.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 3104 - Evolutionary Biology. Lead: Prof Robert Lanfear