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.
Linden Muellner-Wong has won a 2017 RSB Director's Prize in Honours.
Genetic modification can be a prickly subject to raise at the dinner table, but not if you are Hannah Osborn.
Honours student Tze How Goh, enriches his studies by researching diabetes treatments.
PhD student Ronald Yu is bringing his ‘Big Bran Theory’ to the ANU final of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition
Hong Kiat came to the ANU three years ago from Singapore to study a Bachelor of Science (Advanced)(Honours) as part of an ANU Science Articulation Agreement.
Laura Wey has used her undergraduate research experience at ANU to help grow a better future for us all.
Mark Wong, who completed Honours in 2014, has been featured in National Geographic as a Young Explorer Grantee for his work on funnelback spiders.
One man who is working to alleviate the impact of Singapore’s land constraints is ANU alumnus, Mark Wong.
Meet Sarojini Balkrishna, an ANU alumna who proves that there is life outside of academia for PhD graduates.
My supervisor and I are getting very nice results from the experiments we’re doing on autotransporters, which is really exciting.