RSB HDR Students

Professor Naomi Langmore

Jill Trewhella (University of Sydney)

The rate of photosynthesis and plant growth is often rate limited by the activity of the CO2-fixing enzyme Ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (Rubisco).

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.