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News

Wednesday, 18 Oct 2023

How did saltwater crocodiles snap up Yusuke Fukuda’s heart?

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Wednesday, 19 Jul 2023

Dr Robert Lanfear of the ANU Research School of Biology and Dr Minh Bui, from the College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics (CECC) are finalists for the 2023 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software.

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Thursday, 13 Jul 2023

A first-of-its-kind genetic study of the endangered Australian Pookila - formerly known as the New Holland Mouse - is contributing to saving the species from extinction.

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Friday, 07 Jul 2023

A major new study explains why you won’t find kangaroos, koalas and other Aussie marsupials in Indonesia, but you will find many groups of animals that originated in Asia, such as goannas, rodents and kookaburras in Australia.

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Wednesday, 24 May 2023

While Australia is the last continent to be invaded by the vorroa mite, it has an opportunity to be the first to eradicate it.

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Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Until recently we had very little idea when butterflies evolved, and hypotheses concerning their place of origin were largely educated guesses.

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Events

11 Jun 2020 | 10 - 11am

Choosing a mate is one of the most important decisions an animal can make. The fitness costs and benefits of mate choice have been analysed extensively in the context of sexual selection, and the neural and hormonal bases of mate choice have provided insights into how animals make such decisions.

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4 Jun 2020 | 11am - 12pm

Athena Aktipis discusses how an evolutionary approach to understanding and treating cancer can transform it from being a disease that threatens our lives to one we can live with.

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3 Jun 2020 | 2 - 3pm

Studying physiological responses in animals can tell us a lot about how much environmental stress animals can tolerate, helping to improve our understanding of animal biology and inform conservation management actions.

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14 May 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Bob Wong considers the role that behaviour plays in determining the fate of species under human-induced environmental change.

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Two crabs, one yellow and one light brown, on sandy soil near a small hole.
8 May 2020 | 3 - 4pm

In anisogamous mating systems, males and females play different roles. This results in sexual differences in morphology and behaviour.

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A solitary eucalyptus tree stands on rocky, high-altitude terrain against a sky dotted with clouds.
1 May 2020 | 3pm

In this talk, I will introduce a suite of new methods and biological insights gained from the assembly and analysis of Eucalyptus genomes. I will start by introducing new methods of assembling and assessing nuclear, mitochondrial, and chloroplast genomes with long- and short-read data.

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