| Fiddler crabs offer safe sex for favours | Nov 04, 2009 |
 Male Fiddler Crabs will quite happily protect a female neighbour, but do so partly in exchange for sex, according to a new study from The Australian National University. |
The study by Richard Milner, Professor Michael Jennions and team leader Dr Patricia Blackwell of the Research School of Biology at ANU looked at how female fiddler crabs – without the large claw that the males are armed with – go about protecting their territories. |
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| Australasian Science Prize 2009 | Nov 02, 2009 |
 Dr Michael Roderick, a science researcher from the ANU Research School of Biology and the Research School of Earth Sciences, was awarded the 2009 Australasian Science Prize for climate change research into water evaporation rates in Australia and around the world. |
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| Drought tolerant plant gene discovered | Nov 02, 2009 |
 An international group of plant scientists, led by Dr Gonzalo Estavillo and Professor Barry Pogson have discovered a subtle mutation in Arabidopsis which may have important and far reaching implications for establishing drought resistance throughout the plant kingdom. |
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| Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award | Oct 29, 2009 |
 Dr Gwen Allison and colleagues in the Medical School have won an ALTC award for “Programs that Enhance Learning” for the Medical School Research Projects Initiative. |
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| Discovery to help stem malaria’s drug defiance | Sep 25, 2009 |
 The discovery of exactly how the malaria parasite resists the effects of the drug chloroquine could lead to a resurgence in the use of this one-time ‘wonder drug’ to combat the global malaria problem. |
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| Echidnas had recent amphibious ancestor | Sep 22, 2009 |
 Only 30 million years ago Australian and New Guinean echidnas had an amphibious, platypus-like ancestor, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lead author was Dr Matt Phillips of the ANU Research School of Biology. |
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| Pigeon Wings Sound the Alarm | Sep 21, 2009 |
 Mae Hingee and Rob Magrath's new paper ‘Flights of fear: a mechanical wing whistle sounds the alarm in a flocking bird’ (Proc. Roy. Soc. B.) has been the subject of a Nature ‘Research Highlight’ and will be featured in a Nature News and Views article in the next issue. |
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| ARC Future Fellowship Success | Sep 21, 2009 |
 The Research School of Biology has enjoyed spectacular success in the inaugural ARC Future Fellowship round. Five of the twenty-one Fellowships awarded to ANU were from the Research School of Biological Sciences:
Owen Atkin, Lindell Bromham, Warwick Hillier, John Rathjen, and Spencer Whitney. |
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| Female fish agree bigger is better; human research may be next | Sep 21, 2009 |
 SIZE may matter, Australian scientists have found. In possibly the first study of its kind, Australian National University biologists found that female mosquito fish prefer males with large genitals. |
Richard Macey, smh.com.au |
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| Move over mum - reptile nest sharing | Sep 01, 2009 |
 When it comes to laying eggs, female reptiles can be remarkably communal, often laying their eggs in the nests of other females. A new study from Research School of Biology at ANU suggests that this behaviour is more common in reptiles than was previously thought. |
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| Nanotubes help to solve desalination problem | Aug 24, 2009 |
 Researchers Dr Tamsyn Hilder, Dr Dan Gordon and group leader Professor Shin-Ho Chung from the Computational Biophysics Group at the Research School of Biology at ANU have come up with a way to eliminate all salt from seawater using nanotubes made from boron and nitrogen atoms that will make the process up to five times faster. |
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| Coral genome to be sequenced | Aug 20, 2009 |
 David Miller of James Cook University and Eldon Ball of ANU, the Research School of Biiology, are leading a project to sequence a coral genome using Illumina high throughput sequencing technology. Other members and former members of the School involved in the project include David Hayward, Sylvain Foret and Rob Saint (RSB). |
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| Frog and reptile finder wins Eureka prize | Aug 19, 2009 |
 Dr Conrad Hoskin, from the Research School of Biology, has won the Eureka Prize for Early Career Species Discovery, worth $10,000. His discovery of an unknown tree frog species shed new light on the relationship between hybridization and the evolution of new species. |
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| HONEY BEE EPIGENETICS IN THE SCIENCE MUSEUM IN LONDON | Aug 14, 2009 |
| The Science Museum in London is redesigning its award winning biomedical gallery called ‘Who am I’ to include the latest discoveries in genomics and epigenomics. The next generation gallery, to be launched in 2010, will contain a display on honey bee epigenetic regulation of development and behaviour. Ryszard Maleszka (Animal Genomics and Evolution) is interacting with the exhibition content developer to find a way to prepare a visually interesting exhibition. |
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| Charles Darwin Bicentenary Symposium | Jul 17, 2009 |
 The ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment sponsored the first in a series of Charles Darwin Bicentenary Symposia, entitled Human Genetics and Evolution on Tuesday 7 April 2009, featuring both national and international experts in the field. Presentations from the event are now available. |
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| ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment General Forum | Jul 16, 2009 |
 The ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment held a General Forum on Wednesday 15 July 2009. Its aim was to introduce Professor Andrew Cockburn as the new College Director, inform of the College Research Strategic Plan, and to provide information concerning the new University IAS model. Professor Cockburn's presentation is now available. |
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| ANU women scientists up with the best | Mar 31, 2009 |
 ANU has more women Fellows in the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) than any other institution after an eco-physiologist was elected to the ranks of the nation’s top scientists. |
Professor Marilyn Ball is the fifth ANU women to accept a Fellowship, which is described by the AAS as recognition of “a career that has significantly advanced the world’s store of scientific knowledge.” |
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| Congratulations to our newest Australian Academy of Science member | Mar 30, 2009 |
 Congratulations to Professor Marilyn Ball who has recently been elected to the Australian Academy of Science. Distinguished for her work on plant physiology: stress tolerance in plants and their ability to function in complex, highly variable environments. Marilyn is the head of Ecosystem Dynamics at the Research School of Biological Sciences. We congratulate her for this well deserved recognition! |
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| 2009 NHMRC/ARC Grant Successes | Nov 28, 2008 |
 The recent announcement of grant successes for ARC Discovery ($21M), ARC LIEF ($4M), Linkage International ($200K), Linkage ($2.6M) and NHMRC Project Grants ($4.5M) and Research Fellowship schemes has seen CMBE and CPS combined win over $32M in new research funding for the next 3-5 years. Congratulations to all grant recipients! |
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