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

Discovery Projects

• Patricia Backwell (EEG); Lucky in love: The role of chance in sexual selection, DP160100316, $337.4K
• Lindell Bromham, Marcel Cardillo (EEG); Evolution at extremes: Macroevolutionary responses to harsh environments, DP160103915, $378.7K
• Marcel Cardillo (EEG); Testing the links between ecological processes and evolutionary radiations, DP160103942, $359.4K
• Michael Jennions (EEG); Population divergence and the thermal ecology of sexual conflict, DP160100285, $379.4K
• Denisse Leyton (BSB), Ian Henderson; Autotransporter folding: Insights advancing recombinant protein production, DP160103294, $346.8K'
• Ryszard Maleszka (EEG); Epigenetic reprogramming of development by nutritional factors in the honeybee, DP160103053, $398.8K
• Allen Rodrigo; Evolutionary analyses of short-read sequences from pooled samples, DP160103474, $491.9K

RSB academics in externally hosted grants

• Mike Crisp (EEG) (through the James Cook University); Australia's distinctive succulent flora, DP160101624, $364.4
• Roddy Dewar (PS) (through the University of Western Sydney); Linking photosynthesis and plant growth: Do plants hedge their bets? DP160103436, $428.1K
• Craig Moritz, Jason Bragg (EEG) (through the University of Canberra); Do chromosomal rearrangements drive genomic evolution and speciation? DP160100187, $408.9K

DECRA Fellowships

• Adele Lehane (Kirk group, BSB); Ion regulation in Apicomplexan parasites, DE160101035, $369.5K
• Angela McGaughran (Moritz group, EEG); Historical pest genomes inform debate about how rapid evolution proceeds, DE160100685, $372K
• Dan Rosauer (Moritz Group, EEG); Modelling diversity within species to explain endeism in the tropics, DE160100035, $374K
• Simon Williams (Solomon Group, PS); How do nectotrophic fungi effector proteins cause disease in wheat? DE160100893, $364K