An individual’s environment can substantially impact its health, fitness, and the traits it invests energy to. This is something that I am particularly interested in and has been a focus of my research career to date.

Brett Neilan (University of Newcastle)

Please join us for the first Canberra Protein Group Meeting of 2022 this coming Friday.
Where: Slayter Seminar Room, Robertson Building, RSB, ANU
When: 3pm-4:30pm, 6th May 2022
We have two fantastic talks to kick us off.

The majority of the world’s plants rely on animal pollination at least to some degree for reproduction.

Professor Dorrit Jacob

The interaction of C-TERMINALLY ENCODED PEPTIDEs (CEPs) with CEP RECEPTOR1 (CEPR1) controls root growth and development, as well as nitrate uptake, but the underlying protein interactions involved are yet to be comprehensively defined.

Crown roots make up the bulk of the mature root system in grasses and are essential for anchorage and water and nutrient absorption.

Plants that exhibit moisture-regulated root branching, called hydropatterning, are able to detect spatial differences in water distribution around their root growth zone, which leads to pre-patterning of lateral root primordia towards regions of higher water availability.

The antimalarial drug amodiaquine has been around for nearly 60 years during which time it has been deployed as a monotherapy, then removed from recommendations due to toxicity fears, re-instated, and is now deployed in artemisinin-based combinations therapies to combat malaria.