Biological foundations of life

Alex Idnrum Lab - Mycology

This research aims to prevent fungi from causing problems to humans and to find new treatment and management strategies, while addressing also the potential fungi have to enhance our lives.

Andrianopoulos Lab - Microbial and Developmental Genetics

Using an array of genetic and genomic approaches, the research in the lab aims to understand how fungi infect humans, get around the immune defence systems and cause disease.

Adaptive Evolution Lab

Combining experimental and computational approaches to study the effect of environmental variation and stress on natural population.

BEAM Lab - Behavioural Ecology and Macroevolution

Behavioural Ecology and Macroevolution studies of behavioural ecology from a broad evolutionary perspective. We use comparative analyses and field and lab experiments to answer different questions about nature.

BRITE – BioSciences Research & Innovation in Teaching Effectiveness

Enabling, evaluating and undertaking research around good teaching practice, including new and innovative learning experiences.

CAMEL (Climatic and Metabolic Ecology Lab)

The research focus in the Climatic and Metabolic Ecology Lab is on how physical constraints on heat, water and nutritional balances limit the behaviour, distribution and abundance of species.

Elgar Group - Evolutionary Biology Animal Behaviour

Evolutionary significance of social and reproductive behaviour of terrestrial invertebrates, and how this behaviour is mediated through signals and cues.

Golz Group - Plant Developmental Genetics

Understanding how complex patterns of gene expression are generated and maintained during cell-type specification and differentiation in multicellular organisms.

Green Lab - Reproductive technologies

Our lab investigates improving outcomes of human and animal ART, identifying critical pathways in early embryo development and metabolism, and determining the effects of endocrine and environmental factors on fertility and offspring health.

Haydon Plant Cell Signalling Lab

We use genetics, chemical biology, molecular biology, biochemistry and systems analyses to understand mechanisms that control circadian rhythms with a particular focus on metabolic signalling and nutrient balance.

Jusuf Lab - Neural Development and Regeneration

Understanding the genetic networks that co-ordinate the generation of different types of neurons in the central nervous system of vertebrates.

ARC CoE for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS)

MACSYS generates mathematics and computational technologies to make biology predictive, tackles fundamental biological problems and has established a world-leading research and biotechnology translation environment.

Mayfield Community Ecology Lab

Research focuses on community ecology and the conservation of plant and insect communities in human altered environments. We work in tropical and subtropical rain forests and Mediterranean, temperate and tropical grasslands on a diversity of plant and insect species.

McFadden Lab - Malaria and Endosymbiosis

Our group is interested in malaria and symbiosis - two topics that seem somewhat far apart but are in fact strangely interconnected. Our research has led to a paradigm shift in understanding the malaria parasite.

Murray Lab - Developmental Genetics of Drosophila

Investigating the genetic regulation of morphogenesis – the cellular mechanisms that help create the myriad forms of the body.

Mulder Lab - Evolutionary Ecology of Birds

Researching the causes and consequences of variability in mating systems, particularly the relative importance of sexual and natural selection, the role of visual and acoustic signals, and the way in which cooperation and conflict interact in complex social groups.

Nabity Lab - Plant and Insect Ecology

Research in the lab broadly addresses questions on species interactions and adaptation. We also continue longstanding interests to understand plant growth, defense, and other functional traits as they change under biotic and abiotic stress.

Plant Systematics Group - Herbarium / Systematics and Biogeography

We study the phylogeny, classification and biogeography of Australasian plants, including eucalypts, acacias, Eremophila, Nicotiana, Dianella, Grevillea, the family Rutaceae, ferns and bryophytes.

Quantitative Aquatic Ecology and Evolution Lab

Researching the impacts of, and adaptations to, natural and human-induced flow variability, fishery activity, and environmental change.

Rafferty Pollination Ecology Lab

Focusing on the community ecology of plants and pollinators in a changing climate. We use experiments, long-term and historical data, and observations of natural variation to understand how climate change is affecting plants, pollinators, and their interactions.