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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

A man in a blue polo shirt smiling at the camera with a beach and hills in the background.
23 Mar 2022 | 12pm

Synthetic gene circuits are a new biotechnological framework for the generation of organisms harbouring user-defined gene expression patterns and other genetic functions.

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A smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a white top, stands in front of a blue glass building.
2 Mar 2022 | 4pm

Given the global rates of freshwater depletion and the lack of replenishment in many regions including Saudi Arabia, the use of seawater as a primary source of irrigation for cropping may be our only viable option.

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A young man with glasses wearing a white lab coat smiling in a laboratory setting.
25 Feb 2022 | 3:30pm

FERONIA (FER) is a plant receptor kinase of many functions, binding to pectin in the cell wall and mediating an astoundingly broad range of plant activities.

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Portraits of a man in a blue shirt and a woman in a black top; the man's photo is in color, and the woman's is in black and white.
11 Feb 2022 | 3:30pm

Plant phenotyping methodologies have come a long way from manual scoring and destructive characterization to high-throughput imaging techniques.

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An illustration displaying scientific diagrams related to plant biology that includes a mechanical setup measuring plant response, multiple graph charts, and a close-up cross-section of plant cells.
10 Dec 2021 | 3:30 - 4:30pm

Most water fluxes on the land occur through plants via transpiration, and agriculture uses 70% of the water managed by humans.

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