Welcome to Professor Andrew Parker, ARC Federation Fellow. Andrew is located in the Macleay Building, A12, room 114.
The School of Biological Sciences Strategic Plan 2006 - 2011 has been finalised and is now available from the link on the School's home page. The Implementation of the School of Biological Sciences Strategic Plan is available from the Staff Page.
The research of Rick Shine and Greg Brown on homing behaviour in baby snakes is featured in the University News and in The Australian on 22/2/07 - see Biology Letters for the full article.
The Shine brothers, John and Rick, will be
featured this week on Catalyst
(ABC TV) Thursday 1st March at 8pm. Professor John Shine,
Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, cloned the first
human hormone gene. Professor Rick Shine, Professor in
Evolutionary Biology and
ARC Federation Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences, has spent
more than two decades studying snakes and reptiles in the tropics of Australia.
Congratulations to Professor Stephen Simpson FAA and Emeritus Professor Ian Hume DSc FAA on their election to the Australian Academy of Science. Election to the Academy is a great honour and recognises a career that has significantly advanced, and continues to advance, the world’s scientific knowledge.
The first of the Sydney Science Forum Lectures, “Obesity: A Weighty Problem”, is to be held on Wednesday 14 th March. Steve Simpson will be speaking along with Jennie Brand-Miller and Ian Caterson from MMB - 5:30-7:15 pm in the Eastern Avenue Auditorium.
The albino cockroach may not be be all that it seems…according to Dr Nate Lo in The Age
Articles featuring Professor Rick Shine's research appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald "The great leap forward: toads evolving to city life" and also in National Geographic "Toxic Toads Evolve Longer Legs"
Cogratulations to Dr Madeleine Beekman who has just received a research grant (U$450,000 per year) from the Human Frontier Science Program for the project: 'Optimization in natural systems: ants, bees and slime moulds'.This is a collaborative 3 year project between Sydney University and the universities of Uppsala, Leipzig and Hokkaido.
Cane Toad of the Prarie - Dr Stuart Gilchrist appeared on the ABC Radio National Science Show - (7 April) - talking about Cactoblastis
Lizard Sex - Professor Rick Shine's research is featured on Catalyst, ABC 8:00pm Thurs 26th April
Matt works on the systematics of liverworts and is jointly supervised by Dr Elizabeth Brown at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and Dr Glenda Wardle.
Vivek is co-supervised by Prof John Robinson (Maths & Stats) and Dr Lars Jermiin, and was awarded the prize for a paper that has just appeared in Systematic Biology
Congratulations to Grant Winners
– Rick Shine and Charlotte Taylor
Rick Shine received a large Linkage Grant this week,
with ARC contributing more than $750,000 over 4 years for the study “Understanding
and reversing the habitat shifts that have endangered the broad-headed
snake”.
Charlotte Taylor received a Carrick Institute Grant of
$191,400 for a project entitled, “Using threshold concepts to generate
a new understanding of teaching and learning biology”.
Dr Peter Waterhouse has been awarded a Federation Fellowship jointly between the Schools of Biological Sciences and Molecular and Microbial Biosciences. Dr Waterhouse uncovered the mechanism of post-transcriptional gene silencing in plants. Click here for more....
Cane toads their own worst enemy, Prof Rick Shine's research is reported in the Brisbane Times
Prof Chris Dickman speaking at a biodiversity and extinction conference at the University of NSW is reported in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian 11/7/07
Dr Adele Pile's work with the SEA SERPENT project is featured in the ABC's News in Science
Emeritus Professor Paddy Patterson and the Encyclopedia of Life
Prof. Steve Simpson featured on the ABC's Catalyst last Thursday - if you missed it the transcript is here
INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY CONFERENCE
Thursday November 1, 2007 in DT Anderson LT A08, 2:00pm. All welcome.
Undergraduate students especially welcome! For
program click here
Congratulations – Charlie Warren – Young
Tall Poppy Science Award winner
Charlie Warren was presented a Young Tall Pappy Science Award at a ceremony
at State Parliament House last night. Charlie was one of 13 recipients
of these prestigious awards and is the second winner from the School,
Tracy Langkilde having won previously.
Congratulations also on the promotion to Associate
Professor of Madeleine Beekman, Lars Jermiin, Peter McGee and Frank Seebacher.
Also to Clare McArthur and Rosanne Quinnell on their promotion to Senior
Lecturer. All promotions will be effective 1 January, 2008.
Dr Ashley Ward's work features in today's issue of Nature and he has also been interviewed by Science, the ABC and the Sydney Morning Herald
Dr Greg Sword's work is featured in an episode of Mega Disasters airing on the History Channel. The 'Super Swarm' episode features interviews and footage shot in the the lab at the University of Sydney as well as working in the field on Mormon crickets in Utah during the summer of 2007. Be afraid!!! (And don't forget to buy the DVD, a perfect gift just in time for the holidays - Greg insists that he won't make a cent from this!)
Dr Nate Lo and collaborators from Ibaraki University have a paper in this week's edition of Science describing the genetic basis for caste determination in termites (see also commentary).
PhD student Trevor Wilson
has been awarded the Hansjorg Eichler Scientific Research Grant
from the
Australian Systematic Botany Society. Trevor's research involves understanding
how bird pollination has evolved in the
Australian mintbush - see photos below.