Green faces as awards announced

Hot on the heels of the recent Melbourne Cup, some staff are breaking out the champagne again to celebrate their success in the annual ANU Green Office Ratings competition.

The School of Resources, Environment and Society (SRES) and Facilities and Services ranked equal first for participants who joined in 2004, while the Research School of Biological Science won among participants who joined this year.

........Full Story, from On Campus November

(Posted 1/12/2005)

Science and engineering doctoral students at The Australian National University (ANU) have come up with an innovative way to promote science research.

Working as part of the Young Achievement Australia initiative, the students produced a 2006 calendar showcasing the ANU's world-class research for a broad audience. “Scientists have great stories, but sometimes they are a bit hard to understand”
........Full Story

(Posted 09/11/2005)

"Dementia - a vascular disease after all"

The RSBS Director recently spoke on the ABC Ockham's Razor program (18 September 2005), presenting new data, just published with Sydney colleagues, on the fundamental pathology of dementia. The story is new, promising for therapy and - it's all explained in the talk.

A transcript of the talk is available on the ABC website here.

(Posted 05/10/2005)

Even the smallest and simplest of animals can have a suprisingly complex social life.

Dr Judith Reinhard and Dr David Rowell have been studying velvet worms - they were interviewed by ABC Radio recently and have a story published on ABC online and in the BBC Wildlife magazine. View the article from ABC Radio.
View the journal article (J.Zool, Lond. 151kb pdf).

(Posted 05/10/2005)

RSBS Group Leader identified amongst 250 most cited researchers.

Dr Fred Chow - Group Leader - Photobioenergetics has been identified amongst the 250 most cited researchers by ISI Highly Cited.
...........Full Story

(Posted 01/09/2005)

Acropora millepora, the focus of the coral project, is a common shallow water coral on the Great Barrier Reef.

View an article on this story on the ABC website at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1425849.htm

Due to ABC Online's policy of only mentioning the person who is interviewed I was unable to get many other important players in the coral project mentioned in their article. Within RSBS these include Lauretta Grasso and David Hayward, who together made the necessary cDNA libraries and carried out the sequencing reactions, and Rob Saint, who provided the support for the project through the Centre for Molecular Genetics of Development. Other ANU participants include the BRF in JCSMR where the sequencing was done, and Peter Maxwell of the ANU Centre for Bioinformation Science who made a major contribution to the bioinformatic analysis of the data. The genomics portion of the project was led by David Miller of James Cook University, who, in addition to doing many of the analyses himself, coordinated investigators in Canada, Germany, Norway, and Finland in genomic analyses. The data were obtained as part of a project to allow us to study changes in gene expression during coral development.

- Dr Eldon Ball

(Posted 1/08/2005)

New Student Magazine: The Quality Document

The Quality Document was launched June 17, 2005.
Click to download (4.5 MB pdf).

Phytophthora, the plant destroyer

Hundreds of species of plants, including many important crop, horticultural and forest species across Australia are killed by plant pathogens in the genus Phytophthora. Phytophthora diseases cause huge economic losses (estimated at over AU$200 million annually) and extensive environmental damage. ........Full Story

(Posted 25/05/2005)

The buzz about insect robots

Scientists are studying how insects walk, fly and navigate their way in the world to overcome some of the obstacles in the development of robots. The Australian Academy of Science Nova: science in the news topic entitled The buzz about insect robots is available at http://www.science.org.au/nova  and is reproduced with permission from the Academy. ........Full Story

(Posted 10/05/2005)

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