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15 Aug 2020
Professor Owen Atkin is a Group Leader at RSB Plant Sciences, the Vice Chancellor's Entrepreneurial Professor at ANU, and the Director of the Centre for...
14 May 2019
Professor Owen Atkin and Professor Robert Furbank from RSB analyse the ongoing issues around food security and the policy direction needed to ensure Australia...
8 Apr 2019
Plant biologist and Head of the Plant Sciences Division at the ANU Research School of Biology, Professor Owen Atkin, has been named the 2019 Vice-Chancellor...
27 Aug 2018
The ANU and CSIRO will set up a new farming innovation centre at ANU to advance research, education and technology in farming and global food...
20 Nov 2017
A new study involving ANU and international collaborators has found plants release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through respiration than expected,...
13 Sep 2016
It may not feel like it in Australia right now, but over the past year we’ve experienced the hottest global temperatures on instrumental record. This could...
24 Mar 2016
Plants from all over the globe respond to temperature changes in remarkably similar ways, researchers have found. The finding has important implications for...
25 Feb 2016
Nothing better than giving a good lecture to a large first year cohort - a highlight of any day. Group research focus The major foci of my group's research are...
12 Nov 2015
A team of Australian researchers will contribute to a G20 nations plan to strengthen future, global food security by making more energy efficient wheat....
19 Dec 2013
Members of the Research School of Biology will participate in three new ARC Centres of Excellence. The new ARC Centre of Excellence for the Translational...
11 Mar 2013
A study published in Nature Geoscience concludes that climate-induced damage to tropical forests may be lower than previously thought. Owen Atkin and Patrick...
23 Nov 2012
Staff of RSB have been awarded eleven ARC Discovery Grants, two LIEF (Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities) grants and four DECRA (Discovery Early...