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Collaborations enabled by CBA seed funding and network creation across ANU, CSIRO and University of Canberra have helped leverage over $29M in external funding opportunities (2013-26):

• 2026: ARC Mid-Career Industry Fellowship: The plight of the Bogong moth: a model for conservation in Australia ($1.49M) CBA Synthesis Group: Bogong Moth Summit: uniting people, place and purpose for conservation
• 2026: Hermon Slade Foundation grant: Uncovering functional shifts in alpine soil arthropod communities under climate change ($59K) CBA Project: Australian Biodiversity Discovery Facility
• 2025: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award: Safeguarding Australia's native plant biodiversity from a fungal pandemic ($526K) CBA Ignition Grant: Uncovering the diverse complexity of plant and fungi transcriptomes with long-read RNA sequencing
• 2025: ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship: Upcycling organic ‘waste’ into novel climate-friendly fertilisers ($514K) CBA Ignition Grant: Linking soil microbial biodiversity with spectral proxies and soil chemistry
• 2023: ARC Discovery grant: What determines plant sensitivity to heat?: Individual to lifetime impacts ($630K) CBA Synthesis Group: Using thermal tolerance limits to understand species susceptibility under climate change 
• 2023: ARC Discovery grant: Is New Guinea the missing link for understanding Australia's rainforests? ($552K) CBA Synthesis Group: Crossing Lines: a new synthesis on Asian, Melanesian and Australian biotic exchange 
• 2023: ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity ($5M) CBA workshop: Nanopore sequencing for biosecurity and CBA network
• 2022: ARC Linkage Grant: Understanding snow gum dieback for effective and integrated management ($1.2M) CBA Synthesis Group: High Country Eucalypt Dieback Synthesis Network 
• 2021: National Environmental Science Programme (NESP) Threatened Species Recovery Hub grant: Genetic assessment of priority taxa and management priorities ($124K) CBA workshop: Spatial genetics in fire-ground fauna
• 2020: ACT Government Priority Investment Program (PIP) grant: EcoKDDArT: Future Proofing Biodiversity and Biosecurity with a novel integrative Big Data Analysis Hub ($1.2M) CBA network
• 2020: Bioplatforms Australia Amphibian and Reptile Genome Initiative ($1M) CBA network
• 2018: LIEF grant: Australian Mountain Research Facility ($1.12m) CBA Synthesis Group: Using expert elicitation to identify impacts of climate change on Australia’s alpine animals and CBA network
• 2018: ABRS grant An exome capture system for phylogenetic and evolutionary studies in the hyperdiverse orchid tribe Diurideae (Orchidoideae) ($270K) CBA Ignition Grants: Species boundaries in Australian orchids and An exome capture system for phylogenetic and evolutionary studies in the hyperdiverse orchid tribe Diurideae (Orchidoideae)
• 2017: Hermon Slade Foundation grant Orchid phylogenomics: Diversification, evolution and systematics of the hyperdiverse subtribe Bulbophyllinae ($85K) CBA Ignition Grants: Species boundaries in Australian orchids and An exome capture system for phylogenetic and evolutionary studies in the hyperdiverse orchid tribe Diurideae (Orchidoideae)
• 2016: CSIRO Environomics Future Science Platform (FSP) ($4.5M) CBA network
• 2016: Bioplatforms Australia Oz Mammal Genome Initiative ($1.1M) CBA network
• 2015: ARC Discovery grant Evolution at extremes: Macroevolutionary responses to harsh environments ($378K) CBA Ignition Grant: Developing new methods for using distribution data to identify taxa that can tolerate extreme conditions
• 2014: Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF): National Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Precinct (NAESP) ($10M) CBA network
• 2013: ARC Linkage grant Landscape restoration genomics for climate adaptation in eucalyptus foundation species ($375K) CBA Ignition Grant: How local is local? Landscape genomics in Yellow box 

Other collaborations

• Using Virtual Reality for undergraduate evolution and conservation biology teaching - Genestreams, Ben Beeton’s SciArt ($50K ANU Teaching Enhancement Grant)
• QuestaGame (Internships and Bioquests)
• Pew Charitable Trusts