Past events

This page lists RSB past events.

15 Dec 2023 | 3pm

Regeneration is the natural ability to restore or replace damaged or lost body parts following severe injury. Regenerative abilities vary strongly across and within most bilaterian phyla.

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Illustration of a map of Australia overlaid with various stylized snakes, accompanied by the text "SPAGS & SNAGS The evolution of Australian blindsnakes."
1 Dec 2023 | 4pm

I will tell you about Australia's most diverse snake genus, their relationships with one another, how they got to where they are, and what their morphological and ecological variation can tell us about their evolutionary history and their future.

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A smiling man in a blue and white checkered shirt standing outdoors with a blurred background of a fence and trees in soft evening light.
29 Nov 2023 | 11:30am

The development of iron enriched “biofortified” crops is a sustainable way of increasing iron intakes at no additional cost to growers and food manufacturers.

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27 Nov 2023 | 5pm

A fundamental challenge in animal ecology research lies in the ability to understand the factors that shape the evolution and plasticity of behaviours, life histories, and population dynamics of organisms.

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27 Nov 2023 | 4pm

The Cotton Bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, is a globally distributed polyphagous pest with a profound economic and environmental impact.

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A smiling middle-aged man with short gray hair, wearing a striped shirt, standing indoors.
24 Nov 2023 | 3:30pm

In this talk, I will provide a unified review of approaches and explain their close interrelationships, emphasizing that all approaches rely on the standard error of the quantity of interest, most often a pairwise difference of two means.

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24 Nov 2023 | 10am

Registration, lunch and afternoon tea with concurrent 8-minute talks running until 17:00.

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20 Nov 2023 | 10am

The RSB SRS program will run for 9 weeks, commencing Monday 20 November 2023 and finishing on Friday 19 January 2024.

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17 Nov 2023 | 4pm

DNA stability is a prerequisite in many of its applications, ranging from DNA-based vaccine, data storage to gene therapy. However, the existing strategies to enhance the DNA stability are ineffective and limited in scope.

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