E&E Seminar Series: From DNA to Conservation Decisions: Using SNPs to Protect Threatened Species

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have become a cornerstone of modern conservation genetics, offering affordable, high-throughput genomic data that can directly inform management decisions. This ...

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E&E Seminar Series: Show me the data: Myths, misconceptions and recurring advice from statistical consulting at RSB

Part myth-busting and part hand-me-down advice, this talk will reflect on some common misconceptions about statistics and share the lessons we find ourselves repeating every week

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BSB PhD Exit Seminar: Establishing a synthetic nanobody yeast-surface display library for its use in structural biology and synthetic biology.

Nanobodies are small, stable VHH domains derived from camelid heavy-chain-only antibodies and are compact, robust and readily engineered, making them valuable for structural biology, diagnostic imagin...

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E&E PhD Exit Seminar: How will a hotter, drier future climate affect Australian sub-alpine grasslands?

Anyone who has spent time in the mountains will know the beauty of alpine grasslands. What they may not know is how important these grasslands are for carbon storage and biodiversity worldwide.

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PS Seminar Series: Translation Before Transcription: Retrograde Signaling, Redox Control, and New Tools for Synthetic Biology

Chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signaling has long been understood through transcriptional lenses, but growing evidence points to translational control as an equally decisive layer

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E&E Seminar Series: Australian Alpine Pollinators in a Changing World

Pollinators are essential to plant reproduction, community structure, and ecosystem health, but those inhabiting alpine environments face strong thermal constraints.

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E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Vulnerability of culturally important plant species to drought and heatwaves in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

Over the last three years of my PhD, I have been working with Anangu researching why ecologically and culturally significant plants are dying during extreme heatwaves and drought

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PS PhD Exit Seminar: Investigating thermal tolerance in wheat: An exploration of leaf carbon metabolism under heat stress

My PhD project aims to develop and apply novel screening methodologies to improve the identification and characterisation of heat-tolerant wheat genotypes.

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E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Mycorrhizal potential and disease suppression of Australian orchid Serendipita species in barley

Serendipita is a genus of beneficial root-associated fungi (Basidiomycota) that promotes plant growth, enhances nutrient acquisition, and improves plant resilience to environmental stresses.

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E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Root and Foliar Microbiome Associations with Eucalyptus viminalis Dieback

Eucalyptus viminalis dieback in the Monaro region of southeastern Australia is a major threat to ecosystems.

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E&E Seminar Series: Australian Wildlife Conservancy's National Science Program: scaling up conservation

This talk provides an overview of the program’s national-scale approach, including standardised biodiversity monitoring, targeted research to resolve key knowledge gaps, and science-guided reintroduct...

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E&E PhD Exit Seminar: From fuzzy wasps to fuzzy boundaries: untangling the systematics and evolution of the Australian velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)

Velvet ants (mutillids) are a diverse and charismatic family of parasitoid wasps, characterised by extreme sexual dimorphism and a striking array of anti-predator adaptations.

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E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Effect of climate change on plant–microbe interactions in sub-alpine ecosystems

This thesis examines the effect of climate change on a high-elevation ecosystem of Australia. It is expected that increases in temperature and changes in rainfall patterns will strongly influence both...

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BSB PhD Exit Seminar: Exploring redundancies and dependencies in central carbon metabolism in Toxoplasma parasites

Toxoplasma gondii belongs to the apicomplexan phylum, a group of medically and economically important parasites worldwide. T. gondii causes toxoplasmosis which can result in severe disease in immunoco...

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E&E Seminar Series: Ancient landscapes, modern genomes: reading the geological past to interpret the genetic present

I will talk about how deep geological and climatic history has shaped the genetic architecture of Australian fauna, with a focus on two contrasting systems: the arid zone and the Australian alps.

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Home - Visit the lab

We welcome visiting PhD students and postdocs in the lab Since 2016, I have hosted dozens of visiting students. Together, we have completed many chapters and published many papers. These visits have ...

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RSB Director's Seminar: Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown

RSB Director's Seminar featuring Professor Jochen J. Brocks, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU.

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E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Understanding Sexual Conflict and Environmental Effects on Reproductive Strategies in Mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)

My research contributes to broader insights into sexual selection, life-history evolution, and the potential impacts of environmental change on reproductive dynamics in natural populations.

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BSB PhD Exit Seminar: Exploring cholesterol uptake in Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells: From mechanisms to therapeutic applications

My PhD work defines the sources and mechanisms of cholesterol uptake in P. falciparum-infected RBCs and demonstrates how this pathway can be exploited to improve antimalarial drug delivery and therape...

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E&E Seminar Series: Exploring the ecological drivers of intergroup tolerance in birds

Multilevel societies—where social groups show intergroup tolerance and repeatedly associate and merge with specific other groups—are among the most complex forms of social systems in vertebrates.

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BSB Seminar Series: Structural phylogenetics: tracing protein functions from origins to diversification

In this talk, I will show how combining phylogenetic inference, protein structure prediction, and ancestral sequence reconstruction opens new ways to investigate how protein functions originate and di...

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