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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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Tuesday, 18 Dec 2018

Aude Fahrer's work aims to activate the immune cells responsible for attacking cancer, in a simple, low cost way.

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Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018

Alex Maier has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology.

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Thursday, 23 Aug 2018

They say leaders are born not made, but it seems the opposite is true for queen bees, according to a new study by researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) and Queen Mary University of London.

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Tuesday, 27 Feb 2018

New research from The Australian National University (ANU) has drilled down to the molecular level to find similarities across six pharmaceutical drugs used in pain relief, dentist anaesthetic, and treatment of epilepsy, in a bid to find a way to reduce unwanted side-effects.

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Linden Muellner-Wong received her RSB Director's Prize in Honours award from RSB Director, Allen Rodrigo. Image Sharyn Wragg.
Tuesday, 13 Feb 2018

Linden Muellner-Wong has won a 2017 RSB Director's Prize in Honours.

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Events

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5 Mar 2020 | 1 - 2:30pm

PhD exit seminar by Sanduni Hapuarachchi from the van Dooren Group at the Research School of Biology, whose work highlights the important roles transporters play in parasites and open avenues to further explore this important class of proteins.

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2 Mar 2020 | 12 - 1pm

The emergence and spread of Plasmodium falciparum parasites that are resistant to front-line antimalarial artemisinin-combination therapies (ACT) threatens to erase the considerable gains against the disease of the last decade. We developed a new large-scale phenotypic screening pipeline and used it to carry out the fi

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28 Feb 2020 | 1 - 2:30pm

Audrey Odom John, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. A physician-scientist, Dr. John’s NIH-funded research has focused on Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites, with a particular interest in targeting parasite metabolism to identify novel targets for drug development

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An educational chart depicting various stages and anatomical parts of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum.
27 Feb 2020 | 1 - 2:30pm

Special BSB and CBA Seminar exploring evolution by Yoshinori Tomoyasu Department of Biology, Miami University

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6 Feb 2020 | 1 - 2:30pm

Seminar byGERT WÖRHEIDE
Department of Earth- and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology & GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
SNSB – Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie
Munich, Germany

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5 Feb 2020 | 1 - 2:30pm

Tracy Palmer is Professor of Microbiology in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University. She is an internationally-acclaimed molecular microbiologist who has made seminal contributions regarding bacterial protein secretion

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