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News

Monday, 21 Dec 2020

Amber Condell likes stories - both hearing them and telling them. That’s why she likes studying genetics.

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Mosquito
Friday, 07 Aug 2020

A study led by researchers at ANU could lead to new treatments for combating drug-resistant malaria, as well as boost existing drugs.

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Tuesday, 09 Jun 2020

In fiction and popular culture, parasitic characters appear as a metaphor for the threat and spread of disease.

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Monday, 02 Mar 2020

My group focuses on understanding the function of integral membrane transporters and receptors from a structural perspective.

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Tuesday, 11 Jun 2019

Professor Geoff McFadden has been awarded the Ralph Slatyer Medal for research in understanding the malaria parasite.

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Professor Stefan Bröer
Thursday, 11 Apr 2019

Stefan Bröer is looking for the right molecule for a biological target, that could be developed into a drug to treat diabetes. Now ANU has its own library of compounds, available to biological and medical researchers, managed by the Research School of Chemistry.

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Events

Illustration of a biological cellular membrane with embedded protein structures in purple and pink tones.
16 Dec 2024 | 10 - 11am

This presentation highlights high-resolution cryo-EM structures of C. albicans Cdr1 in various substrate-bound states, with and without nucleotides, resolved at 3.45–3.74 Å.

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A collage image showing a man sitting among abstract colorful shapes and chains on the left and another man in front of a grocery shelf filled with canned goods on the right.
4 Dec 2024 | 3pm

Making key insights into antimalarial resistance mechanisms and delineate the utility of cutting-edge computational approaches that will go on to inform future drug design strategies and efforts.

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21 Nov 2024 | 1pm

Over 50 years ago, the active principle 青蒿素 qīng hāo sū or artemisinin was isolated in pure crystal-line form from the leaves of the Chinese traditional herb 青蒿 qīng hāo - Artemisia annua - by Chinese groups working under the remarkable Project 523 during the latter stages of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

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Dr Buchert
7 Nov 2024 | 1pm

Dr Buchert will present two vignettes highlighting his group’s research in gastric cancer.

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A collage featuring various images including a man underwater giving a thumbs up, microscopic views of cells, illustrations of SpongeBob, and developmental stages of a cellular organism.
26 Sep 2024 | 1pm

Di has established the first single-cell atlas for calcareous sponges using an endemic species of Australia, Sycon capricorn. His study reinforces the utility of the Sycon sponge as a model to explore a range of biological processes, such as wound healing.

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Hayley Bugeja
12 Sep 2024 | 1 - 2pm

In this seminar, Dr Hayley Bugeja will tell the story of the development of interactive workshops in a large second year genetics subject, which were iteratively designed over several years (pre and post pandemic).

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