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A passion for the business side of science has helped John Rivers land his dream job, just weeks after finishing his PhD.
Katie Purdy joined the Farquhar group over summer 2017/2018, supervised by Dr Florian Busch.
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.
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.
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.
Researchers from ANU have developed a seed-collection strategy to help make trees or even food crops more resilient to future climate change.
Events
The root of Arabidopsis thaliana is an excellent model for studying cell differentiation in plants.
I began my research career investigating the relationship between photosynthesis and nitrogen in the leaves of wheat, mainly out of curiosity.
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are critical regulators of gene expression, but have been poorly studied relative to other classes of gene regulators.
The emergence of widely virulent Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) races over the past two decades has motivated global efforts to identify effective stem rust (Sr) resistance genes.
Plant resistance proteins act as immune receptors to recognise pathogen effectors and activate defense.