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News

Tuesday, 16 Jan 2024

“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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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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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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3 Mar 2020 | 12 - 1pm

Batesian mimics are deliciously palatable species that gain protection from a predator by resembling a defended or unpalatable model. Theory predicts that mimics that closely resemble their model should have the greatest advantage, while inaccurate mimics should be recognised and attacked by predators.

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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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17 Jan 2020 | 4 - 5pm

PhD exit Seminar Diversity of Serendipitaceae Mycorrhizal Associations of Australian Terrestrial Orchids

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