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Monday, 20 Aug 2018

How does the impact of the early-life environment affect the ageing process?

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Monday, 06 Aug 2018

New research involving biologists from The Australian National University (ANU) shows that some birds are just as skilled as humans at eavesdropping.

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Thursday, 02 Aug 2018

Sasha Mikheyev's lab uses technological advances, largely in sequencing, to understand how organisms respond to biotic changes in their environments.

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Thursday, 02 Aug 2018

Kara Youngentob's research interests are in applied ecological research to inform and improve wildlife management and conservation decisions.

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Tuesday, 10 Jul 2018

Within two days of Josh Penalba submitting his PhD, the Biology graduate started working in a lab at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

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Monday, 02 Jul 2018

Unusual portraits of RSB members Marilyn Ball and Jack Egerton were part of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, entitled 'So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian History'. The portraits are part of a group of six sculptures made of bones, skins, furs, fabrics and other natural materials.

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Events

11 May 2023 | 1pm

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 maintain species diversity, while typically ignoring the ecological and evolutionary consequences of diversity within species.

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28 Apr 2023 | 3:30pm

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

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27 Apr 2023 | 1pm

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

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14 Apr 2023 | 3:30pm

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

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Two scientific illustrations of a brain with labeled parts displaying different angles for comparative study.
23 Mar 2023 | 1pm

Substantial research demonstrates the importance of mate choice to speciation, yet we know little about the molecular mechanisms that underpin this crucial decision-making process.

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A smiling man in a red polo shirt and a lanyard standing in an office setting.
16 Mar 2023 | 1pm

In many biological processes the emergence of spatio-temporal patterns depends on the interaction between pairs of individuals, agents or subunits comprising the whole system.

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