ARC Discovery projects and DECRA fellowships
Monday, 17 Nov 2014

The School has done very well with regards to Discovery projects and DECRA fellowships. Congratulations to all successful applicants.

Discovery Projects

  • Marilyn C Ball (PS); Catherine E; Oliveira Lovelock, Professor Rafael; et al., Top-down rehydration: role of multiple water sources in mangrove function, DP150104437, $428.9K
    Andrew Cockburn; Loeske Kruuk; Martijn van de Pol (all EEG). Can inbreeding avoidance cause the evolution of sex-biased dispersal? DP150100298, $515.42K
  • Michael Djordjevic (PS); Douglas Cook, Michael Udvardi, Rene Geurts, CEP peptides provide a new paradigm for improving N-fixation and root shape, DP150104250, $452K
  • Scott Keogh (EEG), Phenotypic diversity dynamics at a continental scale, DP150102403, $355K
  • Kiaran Kirk (BSB); Giel van Dooren (BSB); Stefan Broer (BSB);Ian Cockburn(JCSMR), A novel family of amino acid transporter in Apicomplexan parasites, DP150102883, $560K
  • Robert Magrath (EEG); Andrew Radford; Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Not lost in translation: how to get information from other species’ calls? DP150102632, $469.6K
  • Ulrike Mathesius (PS), The key to making root nodules - new tricks of old hormones, DP150102002, $417.4K
  • Rod Peakall (EEG); Eran Pichersky; Celeste Linde (EEG); Peter Weston, The biosynthesis and evolution of novel semiochemicals in orchids, DP150102762, $644.8K
  • John Rathjen (PS) Identification of pathogen receptors and signalling proteins from plants, DP150101695, $419.3K
  • Jochen Zeil (EEG); Wolfgang Stuerzl, Acquiring and using views for homing, DP150102699, $386.2K.
     

RSB academics in externally hosted grants

  • Graham Farquhar (PS) (through the James Cook University) DP150100588. Unsaturation of vapour pressure inside leaves: fundamental, but unknown. 2015-2017 $511,100K
  • Naomi Langmore,(EEG) DP150101652 (through the University of Melbourne)
  • Sarah Pryke (EEG) DP150101044, (through the University of Melbourne)
  • Jochen Zeil and Ajay Narendra (EEG) (through Macquarie University), DP150101172.
     

DECRA Fellowships

  • Steven Eichten (Borevitz Group, PS & EEG)
    Beyond Genes: how the extended genotype of plants facilitates adaption, DE150101206, $372.5K
  • Nicholas Matzke (hosted by Craig Moritz, EEG, Bayesian hierarchical model for biogeography, E150101773, $369.5K
  • Daniel Noble (hosted by Scott Keogh, EEG), Early environmental effects on phenotypic development and evolution, DE150101774, $372K
  • Ryan Phillips (hosted by Rod Peakall, EEG), Pollination by sexual deception and the evolution of specialisation   $387 K
  • Benjamin Schwessinger (hosted by John Rathjen, PS) The evolution of stripe rust virulence DE150101897 $341K
  • Kara Youngentob (hosted by Bill Foley, EEG), More than pretty pictures? Ecological applications of aerial remote sensing DE150101870, $342.1K.