Sustainable food systems
We develop approaches to fight weeds, mitigate fungal and invertebrate pests in agriculture, control parasites in aquaculture systems, improve nutrient profiles in crops and minimise the environmental impacts of fisheries and agriculture.
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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.
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Baxter Group - Biology of Insect Pests
We analyse and manipulate insect genomes using molecular genetics to better understand the biology of economically important pests.
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BRITE – BioSciences Research & Innovation in Teaching Effectiveness
Enabling, evaluating and undertaking research around good teaching practice, including new and innovative learning experiences.
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CEBRA - Economics of Biosecurity
Strategic thinking and practical solutions across the biosecurity continuum. We deliver practical, rigorous solutions and strategic advice for biosecurity risk assessment, management, and communication.
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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.
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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.
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Hunt Lab - Analytical Reasoning
The Hunt Lab’s research and training focuses on intelligence analysis, security and policy, with expertise in epistemology, analytics, intelligence studies, disinformation, strategic thinking, risk analysis and futures thinking, expert elicitation, and software development.
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Johnson Lab Group - Plant Nutrition
Can we change how plants absorb nutrients to produce more nutritious crops? We employ a variety of molecular tools to discover, characterize and engineer plant genes that are important for the absorption and bioavailability of iron and zinc.
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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.
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PEARG Lab - Pest and Environmental Adaptation
Research on adaptation of organisms (particularly invertebrates) to environmental stresses including climate change and chemical pollutants, using field sites in the Victorian mountains, in tropical rainforests and in wetlands around Melbourne.
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Quantitative Aquatic Ecology and Evolution Lab
Researching the impacts of, and adaptations to, natural and human-induced flow variability, fishery activity, and environmental change.
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Robin Group - Insect Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution
The research of the lab is the genetic basis of biodiversity; in particular the role of adaptation in the shaping variation within and between species.
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Watt Group - Crop Root Physiology
The Watt Group makes discoveries about the root systems of plants, and applies those discoveries to engineering plant systems that sustain healthy life on Earth and in future in space.