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News

Monday, 16 Sep 2019

Dr Caitlin Byrt explores strategies for advancing water filtration.

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Professor Barry Pogson. Image: Lannon Harley, ANU
Thursday, 12 Sep 2019

Professor Barry Pogson, from the ANU Research School of Biology, was awarded $2.9 million to create higher-yielding and more resilient 'smart plants' for good and bad seasons.

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Tuesday, 25 Jun 2019

Distinguished Professor Graham Farquhar has been honoured with a tapestry representing his life's work, including his Kyoto Prize, unveiled at University House.

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Tuesday, 11 Jun 2019

Professor Geoff McFadden has been awarded the Ralph Slatyer Medal for research in understanding the malaria parasite.

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Monday, 08 Apr 2019

Plant biologist and Head of the Plant Sciences Division at the ANU Research School of Biology, Professor Owen Atkin, has been named the 2019 Vice-Chancellor's Entrepreneurial Fellow for his work around entrepreneurial agri-technology.

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Thursday, 07 Mar 2019

To create a future you can look forward to we need to upgrade our crop plant resources. Upgrading crops to improve productivity and adapt to environmental stresses, such as extreme climatic conditions, is key to our future food security and quality of life.

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Events

Rowan Sage
7 May 2025 | 12pm

C4 photosynthesis is one of the most prolific complex traits in the biosphere, having independently evolved over 70 times in flowering plants. Understanding C4 evolution is providing insights into how evolution builds complex life forms that can transform the biosphere.

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Peter Reich
26 Mar 2025 | 12 - 1pm

Will ecosystems maintain their biodiversity and function under global environmental change, and continue to sequester carbon and slow climate change?

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Eric Dusenge
19 Mar 2025 | 12 - 1pm

Photosynthesis and leaf respiration are key metabolic processes for plant growth and their carbon exchange with the atmosphere are the largest within the global carbon cycle.

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A woman with curly hair, wearing a purple patterned top, stands smiling against a gray concrete background.
5 Mar 2025 | 12pm

Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a spatial metabolomics technology used to map the distribution of metabolites in tissue cross sections or on surfaces of whole tissues.

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A collage of images featuring an illustrated woman holding a globe, surrounded by flowers on the left, a colorful map of the world in the center, and two satellite maps showing land use.
19 Feb 2025 | 12pm

A fundamental challenge in biology is dealing with high levels of heterogeneity, from genes in genomes, to developing tissues in an organism, to grass and trees in woodland biomes.

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14 Feb 2025 | 3:30pm

Over the last 10 years a number of studies have provided evidence demonstrating that improving photosynthesis can result in improved yield.

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