Welcome to the Botany Website
The school of botany is a world-class department of plant science.
We offer undergraduate, honours and postgraduate training and research opportunities in the fields of:
- plant cell biology
- molecular plant biology and
biotechnology
- plant diseases
- plant physiology
- ecology and environmental science
- marine botany
- plant systematics
- fossils and evolutionary biology
Semester 1 2013 Seminar Schedule
The next seminar is on Tuesday May 21
Dr. Rodney Van Der Ree Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology. Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
‘Building better roads – keeping people and wildlife moving’
Host: Dr. Tracey Regan
View the semester 1 2013 Botany seminar schedule.
News and Events
Fascination of Plants Day Herbarium Tour, Monday 20th May 12pm and 2pm (booking essential)
Come and see the botanical wonders housed at the University of Melbourne Herbarium on this 45 minute tour. The University of Melbourne Herbarium houses approximately 100,000 dried plant specimens, including fungi, mosses, liverworts, lichens, algae, ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants. On this tour, Dr Gill Brown, curator of the collection, will show you plant specimens collected from as long ago as 1770, demonstrate the preservation and conservation methods used in herbaria and explain the significance of collections such as these, and how they are used by researchers and the general public in the present day.
Bookings (limited to 20 people per tour) can be made by contacting Gill Brown
Fascination of Plants Day is the initiative of the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO). Each country has a national coordinator (a member of EPSO). In Australia, the national coordinator is the Education Manager for the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG).
Graduate School of Science Information Session - Explore a wide range of careers in science and find out how our programs will get you there!
Thinking about further study? Come to our information session to find out more about the Melbourne Graduate School of Science and how our wide range of programs lead to rewarding careers. Listen to experiences from alumni and hear all about entry requirements, the application process, finance options and more. After the session, you will have the opportunity to pick the brains of students and academic staff over lunch.
Date: Tuesday 21 May Time: 12.15 -1.45 pm (includes lunch) Venue: Laby Theatre, David Caro Building, University of Melbourne Campus map reference: http://maps.unimelb.edu.au/parkville/building/192
Registrations: http://graduate.science.unimelb.edu.au/events
A few images from the Alumni event
Science IT Service Desk
The new Science IT Service Desk is now available for all Science IT support enquiries.
All School of Botany requests for IT support must be logged here.
Emails or phone messages to support staff may not receive timely attention.
To check the status of a support request you have lodged online, visit the IT Request Status webpage.
Science IT Sevice Desk Telephone: 53888
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