Thirty accomplished scientists from the Research School of Biology will present their research in a day-long symposium of short 8-minute 'flash talks'.
RSB faculty do ground-breaking research in photosynthesis, biodiversity, malaria, plant immunity, microbiology, plant and animal physiology, computational biology, behavioural ecology, animal navigation, cancer – the list goes on.
Here’s an opportunity to learn about what we do at the RSB, and to meet your next collaborator, your next supervisor or, for our alumni, the lecturer who inspired you.
All welcome.
Program
- Allen Rodrigo 9:00 Welcome
Session 1 Carsten Kulheim, moderator
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Owen Atkin 9:10 Advice from a mentor: "Make sure you don't have all your eggs in one basket"
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Uli Mathesius 9:20 A new function for flavonoids in the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis
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Michael Jennions 9:30 Forget the genes: why do the sexes differ?
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Susanne von Caemmerer 9:40 Importance of CO2 diffusion to C4 photosynthesis
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Fred Chow 9:50 Photosynthetic membranes in leaves: dynamic changes in organization and function
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Aude Fahrer 10:00 Development of a simple, inexpensive cancer immunotherapy
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Justin Borevitz 10:10 Genomics2Phenomics2Climate
BREAK
Session 2 Claire Anderson, moderator
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Paul Cooper 10:50 Control of foregut contraction in Orthoptera
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Chris Fulton 11:00 Global ecological success of coral reef fishes in extreme habitats
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Peter Solomon 11:10 Wheat diseases - current and potential issues
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Jochen Zeil 11:20 Navigating Brains
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Adrienne Hardham 11:30 Quantifying the plant actin cytoskeleton response to applied pressure
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Gavin Huttley 11:40 Making sense from sequence
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Alex Maier 11:50 Greasy business – the role of lipids in malaria transmission
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Spencer Whitney 12:00 All Rubisco... all the time
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Marcel Cardillo 12:10 Evolution of botanical diversity in Mediterranean-Type Environments
LUNCH
Session 3 Florian Busch, moderator
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Bob Furbank 2:00 Photosynthesis from the cell to the field
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Kevin Saliba 2:10 Starving the malaria parasite of its vitamin requirements
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Allen Rodrigo 2:20 "Consider a spherical human...": modelling microbiomes and the art of computational biology
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Tony Millar 2:30 The RNA-binding proteome of plants
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Giel van Dooren 2:40 The ins and outs of solute transport in Toxoplasma parasites
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Maja Adamska 2:50 Sponges as the Rosetta Stone of colonial-to-multicellular transition
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Marilyn Ball 3:00 Leaf hydraulics: the ups and downs of water use
BREAK
Session 4 Ben Kaehler, moderator
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Rob Lanfear 3:40 Three ways to improve phylogenetic analyses
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Rob Magrath 3:50 Communicating about danger
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Mike Crisp 4:00 Systematics and diversification of the Australian flora through space and time
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Stefan Broer 4:10 A unified model of amino acid homeostasis in cancer cells
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John Evans 4:20 Using plant physiology to drive a new Green Revolution
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John Rathjen 4:30 Plant Immunity
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Eric Stone 4:40 A new perspective on finding needles in haystacks
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Kiaran Kirk 4:50 Of malaria and membranes
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