group logo by my PhD student Chelsea Morgan
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Our histology lab (229) is located in the Banks Building on the ANU campus (44 Linnaeus Way). I supply hard tissue processing training, protocols, and expertise.
Our lab equipment is funded in most part by ANU internal grants from various different budget pots (ANU Major Equipment Grant, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology), and most recently by the Australian Research Council. |
Early on, we received in kind lab ware from the ANU Research School of Biology. We continue to receive in kind support from the ANU John Curtin School of Medical Research, and ANU Medical School. I also regularly recycle vintage histology items such as beautiful wooden slide trays donated by various microscopists over the years (e.g. Dr Doreen Bowdery - a phytolith expert, and Dr Paul Cooper - insect physiology expert). It has taken me ~5 years to establish this lab!
Our equipment includes: two Olympus BX53 with DP74 camera microscopes (one with a rotating stage), one Olympus BX50 with a Lumenera’s INFINITY1-2 2.0 megapixel CMOS digital camera microscope, one Buehler EcoMet 300/AutoMet 300 Pro Touchscreen grinder-polisher, one confocal microscope Olympus OLS5000, one Kemet MICRACUT Precision Cutters (another one will be purchased in 2021). We also have two fume hoods.
We are nested within the discipline of biological anthropology in the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Research School of Humanities and the Arts (RSHA), College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS). We occupy what used to be a Zoology and Botany department on the ANU campus, which is very cool because we have heaps of lab space! We now have a collection, or a "library", of thin sections that is growing day by day. It mainly includes human bone and tooth samples from ancient and modern contexts, but we also have some other vertebrates represented (e.g. rat, kangaroo, wombat, crocodile). Our specimens span thousands (and in some fossil cases millions!) of years and cover multiple different parts of the world, with a focus on Asia Pacific. The collection has been possible to set up and study thanks to my wonderful international and domestic collaborators, who share/ donate samples for research, and constructively assist with analyses, including:
Our equipment includes: two Olympus BX53 with DP74 camera microscopes (one with a rotating stage), one Olympus BX50 with a Lumenera’s INFINITY1-2 2.0 megapixel CMOS digital camera microscope, one Buehler EcoMet 300/AutoMet 300 Pro Touchscreen grinder-polisher, one confocal microscope Olympus OLS5000, one Kemet MICRACUT Precision Cutters (another one will be purchased in 2021). We also have two fume hoods.
We are nested within the discipline of biological anthropology in the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Research School of Humanities and the Arts (RSHA), College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS). We occupy what used to be a Zoology and Botany department on the ANU campus, which is very cool because we have heaps of lab space! We now have a collection, or a "library", of thin sections that is growing day by day. It mainly includes human bone and tooth samples from ancient and modern contexts, but we also have some other vertebrates represented (e.g. rat, kangaroo, wombat, crocodile). Our specimens span thousands (and in some fossil cases millions!) of years and cover multiple different parts of the world, with a focus on Asia Pacific. The collection has been possible to set up and study thanks to my wonderful international and domestic collaborators, who share/ donate samples for research, and constructively assist with analyses, including:
- A/Prof Bui Van Liem - Vietnam Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Dr Nawaporn Techataweewan - Department of Anatomy, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
- Dr Patrick Mahoney - School of Anthropology & Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
- Prof Geoff Clark, Prof Sue O'Connor - Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU, Australia
- Dr Rachel Li - The John Curtin Medical School of Research, ANU, Australia
- Dr Rita Hardiman - Dental & Medical School, University of Melbourne, Australia
- A/Prof Julien Louys - Australian Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia
- Prof Marshall Weisler - School of Archaeology, University of Queensland, Australia
- Dr Gilbert Price - School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Dr Frederique Valentin - French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France
- Dr Rebecca Kinaston, Prof Hallie Buckley, A/Prof Siân Halcrow - Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Dr Arkadiusz Soltysiak, Dr Rafal Fetner - Department of Bioarchaeology, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Dr Alexandra van der Geer - Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Prof Philip Piper - Archaeology, School of Archaeology & Anthropology, ANU, Australia
- Dr Eline Schotsmans - Archaeology, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Prof Marc Oxenham - Archaeology, University of Aberdeen/ ANU
NB. All work on human remains undertaken in the lab is justified by a rigorous and well planned/ thought out study design so as to avoid the destruction of often irreplaceable archaeological samples. We adhere to discipline standards and guidelines that relate to lab processing of human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. Where necessary, projects are also reviewed by relevant ethics boards.