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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

8 Jun 2023 | 4pm

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the deposition of Amyloid-β (Aβ) aggregates throughout the cerebrum, especially in the cerebrovascular and hippocampal tissues.

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1 Jun 2023 | 1pm

Acinetobacter baumannii (Ab) is a clinically important pathogen that has rapidly developed resistance to many antimicrobials.

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25 May 2023 | 1pm

Autotransporters are a large family of bacterial secreted and/or outer membrane proteins that play key roles in the pathogenesis of many infectious diseases.

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18 May 2023 | 4pm

Mutations in the gene encoding the human ATP-binding Cassette (ABC) transporter ABCA4 are implicated in several visual disorders including Stargardt’s disease, an early onset macular dystrophy.

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11 May 2023 | 4pm

P-glycoprotein is an ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) transporter, expressed at numerous sanctuary sites protecting the body against xenobiotics. Overexpression of P-glycoprotein in cancer cells is associated with a multidrug resistance phenotype.

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4 May 2023 | 1pm

Glucose and lactate are critical metabolites for most living organisms. In certain circumstances, such as during the intra-erythrocytic stage of malaria parasites and in the glycolytic cancer cells, glycolysis provides the main energy by breaking down the glucose into lactate.

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