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News

Tuesday, 10 Jul 2018

A passion for the business side of science has helped John Rivers land his dream job, just weeks after finishing his PhD.

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Katie Purdey and members of the Farquhar research group at ANU.
Wednesday, 04 Jul 2018

Katie Purdy joined the Farquhar group over summer 2017/2018, supervised by Dr Florian Busch.

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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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Thursday, 24 May 2018

Professor Rana Munns, an eminent Australian plant scientist who works on increased crop production on dry or saline soils has been awarded the Ralph Slatyer Medal for outstanding biological research for 2018.

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Monday, 21 May 2018

Researchers have a new understanding of the genetic makeup of a fungus that causes the disease Wheat Stripe Rust, one of the most destructive wheat diseases globally costing $1 billion annually.

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Thursday, 26 Apr 2018

Researchers from ANU have developed a seed-collection strategy to help make trees or even food crops more resilient to future climate change.

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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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A smiling elderly woman with short gray hair wearing a floral shirt.
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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