Neil Gemmell
Neil John Gemmell masani ne na New Zealand. Yankunan bincikensa sun haɗa da ilimin halittar ɗan adam da genomics, ilimin halittu, da ilimin halittun kiyayewa. Asalinsa daga Lower Hutt, ya sami digiri na uku a Jami'ar La Trobe da ke Melbourne, Australia. Tun daga 2008, Gemmell ya kasance farfesa a Jami'ar Otago kuma tun daga 2019 yana riƙe ɗaya daga cikin kujerun Sesquicentennial Sesquicentennial bakwai (Poutoko Taiea). Muhimmiyar aikin ya haɗa da binciken Loch Ness Monster (2018) da jerin abubuwan halittar tuatara (an buga a cikin 2020). A cikin 2020, Gemmell ya karɓi Medal Hutton ta Royal Society Te Apārangi .

Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
Gemmell ya sami ilimi a Kwalejin Taita da ke Lower Hutt ; Ya sauke karatu daga makarantar a matsayin dux a 1984. Malaminsa na kimiyya, Saty Candasamy, ya zaburar da shi don neman wannan sha'awar kuma da farko ya yi niyyar nazarin ilimin dabbobi. Lokacin da ya gano cewa ilimin dabbobi ya shahara sosai a wurin abokan karatunsa, ya canza mayar da hankalinsa zuwa "wani abu maras farin jini" don ingantacciyar damar aiki. Gemmell ya tafi Jami'ar Victoria ta Wellington, inda ya kammala karatunsa a fannin ilimin halittu da kwayoyin halitta.  A 1988, ya tafi Jami'ar La Trobe a Melbourne, Australia, inda ya sami digiri na uku a 1994. Taken rubutunsa shine yawan jama'a da binciken juyin halitta a cikin platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) : tsarin kwayoyin halitta .

Sana'ar 
A cikin 1994, Gemmell ya tafi Ingila don binciken digiri na biyu a Jami'ar Cambridge (1994-1997) da Jami'ar Leicester (1997 - Fabrairu 1998). A cikin Fabrairu 1998, ya ɗauki matsayi tare da Jami'ar Canterbury, inda ya kasance har zuwa 2008. A wannan shekarar, ya koma wani matsayi a Jami'ar Otago inda ya ci gaba da zama tun daga lokacin.  Tun daga 2011, Gemmell ya jagoranci ƙungiyar da ta tsara genome na tuatara . Sha'awar kimiyya a cikin kwayoyin halittar tuatara yana da yawa idan aka yi la'akari da tsawon rayuwar nau'in (tuatara na iya rayuwa har tsawon shekaru 100) da ƙarancin kamuwa da cututtuka. An buga sakamakon binciken a cikin mujallar kimiyya Nature a watan Agusta 2020.  

A cikin 2018, Gemmell ya kasance jagoran ƙungiyar don balaguro don samfurin DNA muhalli (eDNA) a Loch Ness . Manufar bincike ita ce tabbatar da wanzuwar Loch Ness Monster, ko kuma akasin haka, kuma an ba da cewa an yi muhawara game da wanzuwar halittar tun shekarun 1930, aikinsu ya ba da hankali sosai. Babban manufar ita ce a nuna wa jama'a yadda kimiyya ke aiki.  An bayyana binciken ne a watan Satumba na 2019 kuma ƙungiyar ba ta sami eDNA da ba su zata ba (watau babu wata shaida ga dodo mai rarrafe). Akwai mahimman DNA na eels kuma ƙungiyar bincike sun kammala cewa abubuwan da aka gani na iya zama na eels waɗanda suka girma zuwa babban girma. Gemmell ya kammala da cewa "watakila akwai wani dodo na Loch Ness, ba mu sani ba, ba mu same shi ba." 

A cikin 2020, Gemmell ya ba da shawarar aiwatar da tsarin kula da ruwan sha don gano ribonucleic acid ( RNA ) a matsayin hanyar gano cututtuka tare da COVID-19 . Dangane da bincike na kasashen waje, Gemmell ya kiyasta cewa za a iya gano sabbin lokuta kwana biyu zuwa uku cikin sauri fiye da amfani da daidaitattun hanyoyin. Ya ba da misali da yanayin Jami'ar Jihar Arizona, inda samfurin ruwan sha daga kwalejin zama tare da mutane 300 ya nuna sakamako mai kyau. Lokacin da aka gwada yawan jama'a, an gano wasu cututtukan asymptomatic guda biyu waɗanda wataƙila sun haifar da barkewar ba tare da gwajin ruwan datti a wurin ba.  Cibiyar Nazarin Muhalli da Bincike (ESR) ce ke jagorantar binciken ruwa na New Zealand.

Kyaututtuka da karramawa 
A cikin 2017, an zaɓi Gemmell ɗan'uwan Linnean Society of London .  A cikin Disamba 2017, an sanar da shi a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin malamai shida na New Zealand waɗanda suka karɓi malanta na Fulbright don 2018.  Gemmell ya gudanar da bincike a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts kan korar kwayoyin halitta don magance kwari.  Gemmell ya sami kyaututtuka daga Genetics Society of AustralAsia ( MJD White Medal - 2018)  da New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB Award for Research Excellence - 2019). 

A cikin 2019, Jami'ar Otago ta yi bikin cika shekaru 150 ta hanyar ƙirƙirar kujeru bakwai masu ban sha'awa na Sesquicentennial (Poutoko Taiea). An ba da waɗannan ga manyan malamai masu nasara kuma an ba Gemmell ɗaya daga cikin waɗannan mukamai. 

A cikin Nuwamba 2020, Gemmell ya sami lambar yabo ta Hutton, lambar yabo mafi tsufa da Royal Society Te Apārangi ta bayar. Alkaluman da al'ummar ta bayar ta ce kyautar ta kasance "saboda canza fahimtarmu game da ilimin halittar dabbobi da juyin halitta da kuma haifar da sabbin hanyoyin kiyayewa da sarrafa nau'ikan nau'ikan da ba su da yawa a duniya".   An zaɓi Gemmell a matsayin ɗan ƙungiyar Royal Society Te Apārangi a cikin Maris 2021.

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