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News

Wednesday, 20 Mar 2024

Dr. Florence Danila of the Australian National University wins Thomas Davies 2024 grant from the Australian Academy of Science to support her work on plasmodesmata.

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Wednesday, 22 Nov 2023

The remarkable ability of mangrove forests to remember recent droughts could leave them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

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Tuesday, 19 Sep 2023

Dr. Florence Danila awarded as one of the 2023 ACT's Young Tall Poppies on 19 September 2023 at the Shine Dome.

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ANU Campus
Monday, 07 Aug 2023

ANU has been awarded a total of almost $10m in funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to bolster the nation's capabilities in nuclear and radiation science, and plant biosecurity.

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Thursday, 15 Jun 2023

Professor Yong-Ling Ruan and his colleagues have made a breakthrough that could yield tastier and healthier fruit.

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Wednesday, 22 Mar 2023

As the urgency for climate solutions increases globally, Westpac Scholars Trust supports successful scholars to research to solve some of Australia’s greatest environmental challenges.

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Events

John Kean
1 Dec 2025 | 12pm

This talk will revisit and contextualise the invasion predicted by Cellarius within a framework of biosecurity risk assessment.

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James Nix
14 Nov 2025 | 3:30pm

Cyclic electron flow (CEF) around PSI is essential for balancing ATP/NADPH supply and protecting photosystems under fluctuating light.

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Sareena Sahab
31 Oct 2025 | 12pm

This presentation will explore the application of precision gene editing technologies for trait enhancement in grain crops, with a focus on the integrated platform capabilities developed at Agriculture Victoria (AgVic).

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MM
23 Sep 2025 | 2pm

Mitochondrial biogenesis in plants is a complex and tightly regulated process crucial for cellular energy production, metabolic regulation, and stress responses.

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Hanjun Sun
19 Sep 2025 | 3:30pm

Rubisco activase (Rca) is the essential molecular chaperone that regulates the activity of Rubisco, the enzyme responsible for the initial step of photosynthetic carbon assimilation and providing the primary source of organic carbon on Earth.

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Suyan Yee
10 Sep 2025 | 12 - 1pm

Abiotic stresses like heat and excess sunlight perturb photosynthesis in chloroplasts and induce the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS).

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