The ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity is training a new generation of researchers and leaders to enhance Australia’s plant biosecurity capability and protect natural and productive ecosystems.

The ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity is training a new generation of researchers and leaders to enhance Australia’s plant biosecurity capability and protect natural and productive ecosystems.

The Australian Mountain Environmental Research Facility is a collaboration across universities and land management agencies that brings together leading institutions and researchers to produce world-leading ecosystem, evolutionary and biophysical science, to guide adaptive management of High Mountains across Australia.

The Centre for Biodiversity Analysis (CBA) is a collaboration between ANU, CSIRO and the University of Canberra (UC) to exploit new and emerging capabilities in the discovery, understanding and conservation of Australia’s unique biodiversity.

Konzo is a neurological disease that causes irreversible paralysis of the legs. It is caused by malnutrition and consumption of high levels of a cyanide compound in cassava. Thanks to the research of Dr Howard Bradbury, there is now a simple, inexpensive method to remove the poisonous compound and prevent Konzo.