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Teaching Award for Biology team[20 May 2013]
A major review and revamp of junior-year biology units, Concepts in Biology and Living Systems, has been awarded the 2013 Learning and Teaching Award. More
Professor Steve Simpson elected to the Royal Society[8 May 2013]
The School of Biological Sciences' Professor Steve Simpson has been announced as a new Fellow of the Royal Society. More
Fellowship awarded to study dengue dynamics[1 May 2013]
Visitor to the School of Biological Sciences, Dr Prasad Paradkar, studies insect-transmitted viruses. He has recently arrived here on an Eric French Fellowship to learn specialised techniques with Professor Eddie Holmes. More
Golden staph fluoresces in rainbow colours[16 April 2013]
Images of living Golden Staph cells, containing green and red fluorescent proteins, light up the cover of next month's Applied and Environmental Microbiology. More
Photo competition for first-year biologists[11 April 2013]
They say a picture tells a thousand words and in science photography we want those thousand words to educate, enlighten and explain. Out-of-focus instagram images are of no use here! More
Winton Charitable Foundation winners[8 April 2013]
Mathematical biology students have been awarded a number of internships and scholarships from the Winton Charitable Foundation. These students will use the power of mathematics to grapple with the complexity of the natural world. More
Converting flowers into branches[28 March 2013]
A newly named gene in the grass species Brachypodium, called MORE SPIKELETS1, has been found by Dr Mary Byrne to convert flowers into branches. A stunning scanning electron micrograph image of this work has made the cover of this month's Plant Physiology. More
Bringing back the wolves: a chance for the dingoes too?[22 March 2013]
The re-introduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park offers Fulbright Scholar, Dr Thomas Newsome, the opportunity to ponder the benefits for Australia in using similar measures with dingoes. More
Coral cell-signal for algal control[19 March 2013]
Corals need to control the growth of their intra-cellular algae, lest the algae become parasitic. In a paper recently published in FEBS Journal, researcher Dr Adrienne Grant, has demonstrated how a local coral's cell signal exerts that control. More
Prestigious Val Street Scholarship awarded to biology student[12 February 2013]
Georgia Ward-Fear is the 2013 recipient of the Val Street Scholarship. Northern Australia's top order predators are currently in decline, and Georgia aims to find out why. More
Deadly virus discovered in bats also jumps species[8 February 2013]
Four new forms of hantavirus, one of the most virulent pathogens transmitted from animals to humans, has been identified by international research contributed to by the University of Sydney. More
Survival at 40oC Above[29 January 2013]
Author Debbie S. Miller spent time with the Desert Ecology Research Group in the Simpson Desert for her new children's book - Survival at 40oC Above. More