Transitioning to renewable fuel oils is essential for replacing fossil fuels, promoting environmental sustainability and improving human health.

RSB Director's Seminar, Professor Adrienne Nicotra, Group Leader in the Division of Ecology & Evolution, RSB, Director of the Australian Mountain Research Facility, Monday the 8th of December 2025.

In this talk, I introduce how white-winged choughs, highly social cooperative breeders, integrate multiple features of alarm and contact communication to coordinate antipredator behaviour and maintain cohesion.

Chloroplasts can sense environmental fluctuations via Ca2+ signaling. Environmental triggers, such as light changes, physical damage and heat waves, can induce distinct Ca2+ signatures in chloroplasts, which may help rebalance photosynthesis and stress responses under fluctuating conditions.

This talk will revisit and contextualise the invasion predicted by Cellarius within a framework of biosecurity risk assessment.

Developmental conditions are powerful drivers of phenotypic plasticity. Environmental factors, such as temperature, can directly program fitness-associated phenotypes, while maternal effects act as indirect cues that shape the developmental environment.