Events
Participate in our seminars, public lectures and other events, or watch past event recordings.
Upcoming events
Australia’s alpine regions are known for their rapidly changing weather, cold, snowy winters, clear running streams and wonderfully unique biodiversity. However, things won’t be this way forever, with future climates predicted to challenge plant communities through warmer soils, more frequent droughts and heatwaves, and potentially greater exposure to frost as snow cover declines.
Past events
RSB Director's Seminar, in collaboration with the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences, featuring Professor Andreas Wagner, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Global climatic warming is having profound effects on species’ ecology and acts as a major driver of phenotypic change, but predicting how species will change in their morphology, behaviour and physiology is difficult.
My thesis provides insights into how parrots respond to rapidly changing environments, with implications for conservation and urban planning.
In this talk, I will present how the effects of inbreeding and elevated temperature vary across the guppy life and discuss what these patterns tell us about the fate of small populations in a warming world.
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have become a cornerstone of modern conservation genetics, offering affordable, high-throughput genomic data that can directly inform management decisions. This talk showcases how SNP-based approaches are being applied across a range of conservation challenges, using the critically endangered Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis lineata) as a central case study.
Nanobodies are small, stable VHH domains derived from camelid heavy-chain-only antibodies and are compact, robust and readily engineered, making them valuable for structural biology, diagnostic imaging, biosensors and therapeutics.