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As Varroa spreads, now is the time to fight for Australia’s honey bees – and you can help

We have a small and vanishing window to collect bees before the inevitable rapid spread of the varroa mites, and the mass die-offs, occur.

We discovered two new Australian native mammals – the first of their kind this century

Australia can lay claim to two new native mammal species, discovered as part of collaborative new research published in the journal Molecular Ecology.

An arachnophobe and an arachnophile walk into a lab

“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”

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E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Genomic epidemiology of oat crown rust disease in Australia and abroad uncovers diverse mechanisms to generate diversity

1–2pm 3 Dec 2024
Rust fungi are a diverse group of plant pathogens consisting of over 8,000 species in the Basidiomycete order Pucciniales. They parasitise numerous plants of agricultural and ecological importance, such as cereals, legumes, and trees.

Event recordings

19 October 2023

R. Manjunatha Kini, National University of Singapore

Toxins are thought as villains as they cause death and debilitation. In reality, they have contributed more to improving our lives than cause death.

16 October 2023

Professor Justin Borevitz

Biodiversity rests on a foundation of adaptive and neutral variation within populations and species, that interact in communities or coexist in assemblages, to define ecosystems...

18 September 2023

Professor Robert Lanfear

How do you estimate a good phylogeny? Phylogenetic trees form the backbone of much of our understanding of evolution, so it's important we try to get them right

24 August 2023

Lesley Alton, Monash University

In nature, animals contend with numerous abiotic and biotic environmental challenges simultaneously.

10 August 2023

Culum Brown, Macquarie University

The Fish Lab at Macquarie University has been studying Port Jackson sharks for over a decade. Our initial studies just tried to figure out where they go and what they do: basic...

23 June 2023

Oliver Stuart, Mikheyev Group, E&E, RSB

As climate change and land transformation advance into the future, more and more species will be unable to keep up with the rate of change imposed by human activity.

11 May 2023

Simon Hart, University of Queensland

Understanding how diversity is maintained in biological systems is a fundamental problem in biology. When addressing this problem, ecologists tend to focus on mechanisms that...

28 April 2023

Joseph Chung (Meng-Han), Jennions Group, E&E, RSB

What is the meaning of life? … I’m afraid the answer is disappointingly simple: Mating. That’s it” written by the author Oliver Markus.

27 April 2023

Julia Penndorf, Aplin Group, E&E, RSB

Group-living animals form social relationships that can influence their fitness in a variety of ways.

14 April 2023

Hannah Carle, Nicotra Group, E&E, RSB

Tropical forests are globally important ecosystems that have absorbed a large portion of CO2 from fossil fuel emissions to date.

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