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News

Wednesday, 08 Jul 2020

Professor Kruuk will receive $3.3 million in funding from the ARC to pursue research into the effects of changing environments on wild animal populations.

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Friday, 19 Jun 2020

The unique genetic make-up of a group of Australian frogs could be the key to their survival, allowing them to better withstand our harsh climate.

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Friday, 29 May 2020

Why judging a book by its cover has led to a tangled family tree for the longhorn beetle.

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Thursday, 30 Apr 2020

A bird study led by The Australian National University (ANU) provides new understanding of the ways birds and mammals respond to a rapidly warming world.

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New Holland Honeyeater. Image credit Dr Jessica McLachlan
Monday, 06 Apr 2020

New Holland honeyeaters are experts at sounding the alarm when there’s danger, using a two-stage alarm call. They ‘front-load’ information about urgency into the first note of their alarm call, so other honeyeaters can respond quickly.
The clever honeyeaters follow this up with more notes to reinforce the message and signal how long to remain hidden.

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Expert entomologist Michael Braby with butterfly
Wednesday, 15 Jan 2020

Australia’s current bushfire crisis could wipe out some of our rarer insect species, according to a group of experts.

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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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