Past events
This page lists RSB past events.
Adam Shahine (Monash University)
Plants are sessile organisms and are therefore unable to seek out environmental conditions optimal for their growth and development.
Plant scientists are in a race against time to adapt modern crops to future environments, many of which are predicted to be hotter and drier.
Pompilidae is a family of solitary wasps with more than 5000 species worldwide and approximately 260 in Australia.
Synthetic gene circuits are a new biotechnological framework for the generation of organisms harbouring user-defined gene expression patterns and other genetic functions.
Erinna Lee (La Trobe University/Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute)
The fungus Fusarium oxysporum causes devastating wilt diseases in plants.
Pollinators are under threat from anthropogenic influences such as changed and reduced pollen and nectar resources from agricultural intensification, and emerging pathogens introduced through global trade into new host populations.