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The ANU Research School of Biology (RSB) carries out research in a wide range of biological and biomedical sciences and oversees the University's Biology curriculum, with a diverse offering of courses across both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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Wednesday, 22 Oct 2025

Plant scientists Professor Graham Farquhar and Professor Susanne von Caemmerer transformed the world's understanding of photosynthesis, now they're receiving one of the Commonwealth's top honours for their research.

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Wet tropics rainforest
Thursday, 16 Oct 2025

The trunks and branches of trees in Australia’s tropical rainforests – also known as woody biomass – have become a net source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, according to a new international study.

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Dr Samantha McGaughey (pictured) is harnessing the power of plants to help recover valuable resources from mining waste.
Thursday, 09 Oct 2025

An advanced filtration system inspired by nature that can recover untapped critical resources such as copper and lithium from mining waste is being developed by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) in collaboration with Rio Tinto.

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Renhong Yan
13 Feb 2026 | 12 - 1pm

BSB Seminar Series: Structural Basis of Heteromeric Amino Acid Transporters for Targeted Drug Design

Heteromeric amino acid transporters (HATs) play essential roles in the transport of amino acids, thyroid hormones, and various amino acid–like drugs. Mutations in HATs are associated with several inherited disorders, including cystinuria, lysinuric protein intolerance, and autism spectrum disorders.
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Florian Busch
13 Feb 2026 | 3:30 - 4:30pm

PS Seminar Series - Understanding leaf-level CO2 diffusion: A necessity for improving global GPP estimates

Estimations of the gross primary productivity (GPP) of land ecosystems are key to accurately predict the global carbon cycle.
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Ciara Wallis
16 Feb 2026 | 1 - 2pm

BSB PhD Exit Seminar: Mechanisms of membrane transport proteins borderline between transporters and channels

Throughout my PhD, I determined the transport mechanisms of two proteins that we show break the standard channel / transporter definitions and instead function as anion “chansporters” - proteins that exist somewhere on the spectrum between transporters and channels.
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