Parasitology
About
Groups
We use powerful biological resources provided by C. elegans to study aspects of nematode biochemistry, molecular biology and behaviour, and control methods.
The Brock lab loves membrane proteins; looking at them in atomic detail, discovering new drug molecules, and engineering them to create new biosensors. Join us!
We study membrane transport processes in the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria.
The Maier Group focusses on the identification of molecules involved in malaria pathogenesis and transmission.
We are interested in the molecular mechanisms controlling nodule development in legumes, and how this is linked to other aspects of root architecture.
Our research actually spans may study systems and research questions. But the evolution of honey bee parasites and diseases and is a major focus.
The Saliba Group is investigating vitamin utilisation pathways in the red blood cell stage of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
We study the basic biology of parasites, with the hope that such knowledge can be used in developing new treatment options against these formidable foes.
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News
The future of parasite research in Australia will be in safe hands as 16 young Australian scientists converged for an intensive 2-week workshop with world-leading biologists to study worms, protozoans, ticks, fleas, lice and more.
Scientists have released details of a raft of new chemicals with potent anti-malarial properties which could open the way to new drugs to fight the disease.
Australian native cuckoos are engaged in an arms race, competing with each other to take over other species’ nests.
Professor Kiaran Kirk has been appointed as the Dean of the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.
An anti-malarial treatment that lost its status as the leading weapon against the deadly disease could be given a new lease of life, with new research indicating it simply needs to be administered differently.