Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (EcoGe)
The University of Queensland
The Australian Centre for Ecogenomics analyse sequence-based microbial communities with ecogenomics, an integrated, ecological framework using computational advances and new modelling approaches.
Established 2010, the Centre provides a focal point for sequence-based analysis of microbial communities.
Our research portfolio is 80% ‘applied', focused on major national research priorities (e.g. microbial ecology, marine, mining, AI/Machine Learning, bacterial pathogen genomics) and 20% fundamental research.
ACE provides a high quality, comprehensive, cost effective and fast sequencing service offering amplicon-based community profiling, metagenomics and metatranscriptomics with associated bioinformatics analysis as required.
- Website
- https://scmb.uq.edu.au/research/centres-and-institutes/australian-centre-ecogenomics
- Organisation type
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- University Research Centre
- Number of research staff
- 20-100 research staff
- Address
- Level 5 & 6, Molecular Biosciences Bldg (76), University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072
Strengths and capabilities
- Microbial Ecology
- Microbial Symbiosis
- Environmental and Engineered Systems Microbiology
- High throughput Sequencing Service
- Bioinformatics
- Wastewater surveillance
Facilities and major equipment
- Oxford Nanopore Technology - PromethION
- Illumina NextSeq and MiSeq sequencers
- PC2 laboratories
- HPC Infrastructure
Lead researchers
- Professor Philip Hugenholtz - Creator of Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB)
- Professor David Ascher
- Associate Professor Cheong Xin Chan
- Associate Professor Scott Beatson - Characterising the evolution of globally disseminated multidrug resistant Escherichia coli
- Dr Michaela Blyton
Achievements of the centre
- Philip Hugenholtz co-founded the company Microba. The Queensland biotech has now assisted more than 10,000 Australians to assess their gut health individually or with an Australian healthcare professional.
- Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) is a resource for the international research community that provides a standardised microbial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny.
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