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| GRAND CHALLENGE OF FOOD SECURITY |
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| Associate Professors Gimme Walter and Paul Ebert have been awarded $3 million from the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund administered by the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. The funds will support the ‘Grand Challenge Priority Theme of Food Security’ through a project designed to improve postharvest protection of the grain supply chain by effective management of phosphine (PH3) resistance in insect pests. Read more... |
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| For some impoverished regions of the world, sorghum remains a principal source of energy, protein, vitamins and minerals. |
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| EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF SEXUAL PROCESSES |
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| We are fortunate to welcome Dr Jan Engelstädter who has joined the School of Biological Sciences as Lecturer. Jan has always been fascinated by evolutionary biology since he was able to understand it, in particular by the simple but powerful idea of natural selection. Jan also had an early predilection for the beauty of mathematics. He was excited when he discovered in his late teens that evolutionary processes can also be studied by means of mathematical models, and was eager to learn more about such models. It was a lucky coincidence that the Humboldt University in his hometown (and favourite city) Berlin was one of the few places in Germany where theoretical biology was taught. Jan studied biology and mathematics at this university and one semester abroad on an exchange program in Vienna.
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Dr Vera Weisbecker has been awarded a prestigious Hermon Slade award for the project ‘Evolutionary developmental biology of the mammalian middle ear: using virtual reconstruction to integrate development and biomechanics’.
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The School of Biological Sciences and the Centre for Marine Science is grateful to the Goodman Foundation for its generous support in 2012 of five of our research groups. The projects have a wide range of personnel involved including honours students, PhD students and volunteers from the Moreton Bay Marine Park and Greater Brisbane Region. The donated funds will be used to support the students and volunteers while they are in the field and also to purchase field equipment and consumables for molecular laboratory work. Award recipients are:
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| EXPLORING AUSTRALIA'S MARINE ENVIRONMENT |
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| Students enrolled in MARS2005 Australia's Marine Environment are given the opportunity to explore Heron Island and its surrounding coral reefs. In April this year, 30 students embarked on a study of the island's marine eco-system while based at the Heron Island Research Station. MARS2005 Australia's Marine Environment is offered to science and non-science students. Students interested in taking this course should check with their Faculty if it can be credited towards their program. The course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students. |
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MANAGER, PRACTICAL TEACHING
Mr Rob Mackay-Wood has been appointed Manager, Practical Teaching, to replace Lina Daddow who is retiring in early July after more than 41 years at UQ (37 of those years in Goddard alone!). Rob has a B Science (Botany and Zoology majors), and earlier in his career he managed the teaching laboratories in the School of Biological Sciences at U Sydney for many years. He then moved more into online learning development roles at Sydney – first as a courseware developer and then as an educational resource developer. Rob has spent his time at UQ (in the Centre for Marine Studies and then the Global Change Institute) in multimedia and communications, and was seeking a move back to a teaching focussed role.
Rob and Lina will work together in the coming weeks to ensure a seamless transition of this very important role in the School, though Rob will essentially assume all responsibilities. Rob is in office 254A in Goddard, and Lina has transferred to room 116. Rob can be contacted by email or by phone on extension 51037. |
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WEDDING BELLE
Congratulations to Karen Roche from the BIOL International Academic Programs office who has married her sweetheart Michael Vowles at St Bernard’s, Upper Mt Gravatt. After weeks of rain, the wedding day was spectacular and ended with a giant conga line across the terrace of the Brisbane Golf Club.
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