Research stories
Find out more about our staff and their research.
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Sam Periyannan was born and brought up on a small sugar cane farm in Southern India. He never dreamed he would become a crop researcher, rather than a cane farmer.
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Alex Maier has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology.
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Meisha Holloway-Phillips talks about her time working with Graham Farquhar
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Kara Youngentob's research interests are in applied ecological research to inform and improve wildlife management and conservation decisions.
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Sasha Mikheyev's lab uses technological advances, largely in sequencing, to understand how organisms respond to biotic changes in their environments.
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Simon Williams uses protein biochemistry and structural biology approaches to understand how plant pathogens cause disease and how the plant immune system prevents infection.
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I love that I’m constantly being challenged to develop new teaching methods to meet the changing needs of student learning styles- from traditional to international to mature age students.
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Jennie Mallela conducts multidisciplinary research combining ecological, biological and geochemical research techniques to understand how environmental disturbance will impact reef function and health in the future.
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Dan Rosauer is fascinated by the incredibly uneven spatial distribution of biological diversity at all levels, particularly centres of phylogenetic endemism.
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Rob Sharwood's main interest is to improve crop productivity in key crops such as rice, wheat and cotton through discovering new solutions to cope with future climate change.
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Angela McGaughran is primarily interested in combining genomic and ecological approaches to examine evolutionary processes in natural populations.
