Event recordings
Watch and listen to recordings of our past presentations.
21 September 2022
John Passioura, Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University
‘Translational research’ became an increasingly common term when it was realised that much agriculturally inspired basic research failed to contribute to the improvement of crops.
15 September 2022
Simone Babij, Leyton Group, BSB, RSB
Malaria kills around 400,000 people each year and the prevention and treatment of this disease is highly reliant on chemotherapy.
2 September 2022
Truc Nguyen, Gordon Group, E&E, RSB
Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains are responsible for the majority of extra-intestinal infections in humans, including urinary tract infections,...
31 August 2022
Yun Hsiao, Rowell Group, E&E, RSB
Cycads are subtropical and tropical palm-like gymnosperms, commonly known as “living fossils” as they arose in the late Paleozoic and were much more diverse and dominant during...
26 August 2022
Edward E. Farmer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Slow wave potentials propagate from sites of damage to distal leaves in wounded plants.
26 August 2022
Lauren Harrison, Head & Jennions Groups, E&E, RSB
Males compete against each other for female attention, for access to mating opportunities, and the sperm of multiple males can compete to fertilise a female’s eggs.
25 August 2022
Professor Ian Paulsen, Macquarie University
Developing novel synthetic microbes for the sustainable production of biochemical, biofuels and bioplastics is critical for the emergence of a new global bioeconomy.
12 August 2022
Dr James P B Lloyd, University of Western Australia's School of Molecular Sciences and ARC CoE in Plant Energy Biology
Plant biotechnology predominantly relies on a restricted set of genetic parts with limited capability to customize spatiotemporal and conditional expression patterns.
4 August 2022
Dr Ailie Marx, Israel Institute of Technology
One of the most fundamental assumptions in biology is that the amino acid sequence defines protein structure and that this sequence carries no memory of the specific mRNA codon...
29 July 2022
Dr Patrick Willems - Department of Microbiology, Ghent University (Belgium)
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) greatly expand proteome complexity and can dynamically tune protein function. Already during their synthesis, proteins are co-...