Participate in our seminars, public lectures and other events, or watch past event recordings.

Upcoming events

Diep Ganguly
14 May 2026 | 2 - 3pm

Plants employ a suite of gene regulatory mechanisms that enable them to occupy a diverse range of environments and respond to ongoing perturbations.

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Professor Jochen J. Brocks
18 May 2026 | 1 - 2pm

RSB Director's Seminar featuring Professor Jochen J. Brocks, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU.

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Fatema Akhter
20 May 2026 | 2 - 3pm

My research contributes to broader insights into sexual selection, life-history evolution, and the potential impacts of environmental change on reproductive dynamics in natural populations.

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Kwong Sum (Sam) Lam and Maier Group
21 May 2026 | 1 - 2pm

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease, with its most severe form caused by the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The rapid emergence and spread of drug‑resistant parasites demand new therapeutic strategies.

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Past events

Saishyam Ramesh
7 May 2026 | 1 - 2pm

My PhD work defines the sources and mechanisms of cholesterol uptake in P. falciparum-infected RBCs and demonstrates how this pathway can be exploited to improve antimalarial drug delivery and therapeutic index.

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Ettore Camerlenghi
30 Apr 2026 | 1 - 2pm

Multilevel societies—where social groups show intergroup tolerance and repeatedly associate and merge with specific other groups—are among the most complex forms of social systems in vertebrates.

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Caroline Puente-Lelievre
23 Apr 2026 | 1 - 2pm

In this talk, I will show how combining phylogenetic inference, protein structure prediction, and ancestral sequence reconstruction opens new ways to investigate how protein functions originate and diversify across the tree of life.

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Stephen Rogers
22 Apr 2026 | 12 - 1pm

Growing water-scarcity under climate change makes cost-effective water saving interventions in agriculture crucial for sustaining crop yields.

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Ryszard Maleszka /RSB Director's Seminar
20 Apr 2026 | 1pm

RSB Director's Seminar featuring Emeritus Professor Ryszard Maleszka, Honorary Group Leader in the Division of Biomedical Science and Biochemistry, RSB.

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Dr Matthew Johnson
2 Apr 2026 | 3 - 4pm

Just as the development of the first light microscopes uncovered a new microbial frontier, the use of high-throughput sequencing and metagenomics has uncovered a new frontier of unculturable microorganisms, often referred to as “microbial dark matter”.

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