This seminar will outline a predictive modelling research theme and highlight recent examples integrating physiology, phenotyping and genetics to evaluate potential interventions and guide crop adapta...

Sphingolipids constitute an important class of lipids found in all eukaryotes. In addition to their essential structural roles in cellular membranes, sphingolipids act as signalling molecules and regu...

Using poecilid fishes as models, this talk will outline long term research investigating the impacts of pharmaceutical pollution on the behaviour of exposed organisms and their weighty ecological and ...

Seabirds spend much of their lives moving through vast and dynamic marine environments, making movement ecology a powerful framework through which to understand how animals respond to environmental ch...

Australia’s alpine regions are known for their rapidly changing weather, cold, snowy winters, clear running streams and wonderfully unique biodiversity. However, things won’t be this way forever, with...

Global climatic warming is having profound effects on species’ ecology and acts as a major driver of phenotypic change, but predicting how species will change in their morphology, behaviour and physio...

My thesis provides insights into how parrots respond to rapidly changing environments, with implications for conservation and urban planning.

In this talk, I will present how the effects of inbreeding and elevated temperature vary across the guppy life and discuss what these patterns tell us about the fate of small populations in a warming ...

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 ...

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

Throughout my PhD, I determined the transport mechanisms of two proteins that we show break the standard channel / transporter definitions and instead function as anion “chansporters” - proteins that exist somewhere on the spectrum between transporters and channels.