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Dr Paul Whatmore serves as a Lecturer in the Curtin School of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences, part of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He is associated with Curtin Medical School and Curtin Medical Research Institute. His professional portfolio falls under the Office of the Provost. Previously, he worked in eResearch, Research Infrastructure, Academic Division at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Earlier, he was a researcher at the University of Queensland Centre for Marine Studies from December 2008 to January 2010 and a PhD candidate at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, holding a BSc(Hons). He is a member of the UWA Centre for Applied Bioinformatics, participated in the Applied Bioinformatics at Pawsey event, and received a 2026 Pawsey Supercomputing allocation for research on the role of epigenetic alterations in age-related senescence.
Paul Whatmore's academic interests include applied bioinformatics, environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding for biodiversity monitoring, transcriptomics in reproductive health, microglial heterogeneity in neuroscience, and gene expression in aquaculture species. He co-supervises PhD projects at Curtin Medical Research Institute, including an R workflow for RNA-seq analysis in unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss published in 2025. His key publications encompass 'Non-destructive environmental DNA extracted from owl pellet contents: A valuable tool for monitoring mammalian species richness' (PLoS ONE, 2026), 'Spider webs capture environmental DNA from terrestrial vertebrates' (2024), 'Targeting Terrestrial Vertebrates With eDNA: Trends, Perspectives, and Considerations for Sampling' (2025), 'Ontogenetic expression of bile and lipid metabolism genes in yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) larvae in relation to hepatic lipid accumulation' (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2026), 'Regional and sub-regional microglial heterogeneity in the steady-state mouse brain and retina' (bioRxiv, 2026), 'Metabolic and molecular signatures of improved growth in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fed surplus levels of methionine, folic acid, vitamin B6 and B12 throughout smoltification' (British Journal of Nutrition, 2021), 'Ocean warming shapes embryonic developmental prospects of the northeast Arctic cod' (ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024), 'Using nutrigenomics to evaluate microdiet performance in pike silverside larvae' (Aquaculture Nutrition, 2021), and 'Gene expression patterns in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) with severe nephrocalcinosis' (2022). These contributions demonstrate his impact in genomic approaches to ecology, health sciences, and aquaculture.
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