Student stories
Read about the experiences of students at the Research School of Biology.
Are these desert-dwelling gecko clones thriving or just surviving?
The discovery of a new critical enzyme could help engineer climate resilient crops capable of sucking far more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a much more efficient way.
ANU graduate and biologist 'WELI' knows more about kangaroos than most. He's hopped to the number one spot in the 2024 Dance Your PhD global contest with his quirky submission, ‘Kangaroo Time (Club Edit)’.
“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”
How did saltwater crocodiles snap up Yusuke Fukuda’s heart?
Meet the PhD researcher exploring how bacterial proteins could hold the key to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.
Amber Condell likes stories - both hearing them and telling them. That’s why she likes studying genetics.
We may be in the middle of an insect mass extinction. The once abundant Rocky Mountain locust was last seen in 1902. Under the Mikheyev Group, Peiyu Yuan used data from a related extant locust species and comparative genomics to identify artifacts in museum data of the Rocky Mountain locust.
Alexandra Catling indulges in her passion for scientific research on a trip to south east Asian forests. And discovers leeches.
Katie Purdy joined the Farquhar group over summer 2017/2018, supervised by Dr Florian Busch.