Date

Speaker

Title

Tuesday August 4^th, 1pm

Dr Tracey Regan
School of Botany
University of Melbourne
Host: Michael Bode

“Crafting decision rules for assessing extinction risk under the US Endangered Species Act.”

August 11^th

Dr. Peter Dodds
CSIRO Canberra
Host: Adrienne Clarke

“Recognition of secreted effectors from flax-rust in gene-for-gene resistance”

August 18^th

Prof. Mark Burgman
ACERA

“Could biosecurity risk analysis be done better?”

August 25^th

Dr Helen Hayden
Department of Primary Industries
Host: Dr Candace Elliott

“New tools provoke new questions in soil microbial ecology”

September 1^st

Ming Kalanon
School of Botany
University of Melbourne
Host: Prof Geoff McFadden

“Investigating protein import into the apicoplast of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum”

September 8^th

Dr Melanie Norgate
Monash University
Host: Dr. Angela Van de Wouw

“Understanding responses to climate change: a mechanistic approach integrating functional genetics, physiology and biophysical models for the Common brown butterfly”

September 15^th

Andrea White
Host: TBA

“The Impact of Climate Change on the Distribution, Function and Condition of Alpine Peatlands on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria”

Mid-Semester Break

October 6^th

Dr Mick McCarthy
Host: TBA

“Theory for environmental management”

October 13^th  

Dr Jonathon Walton
Michigan State University
Host: Prof. Barbara Howlett

“Biosynthesis of fungal cyclic peptides involved in plant pathogenesis and human poisoning”

October 20^th

Elizabeth Neilson
School of Botany
University of Melbourne
Host: Dr. Jason Goodger

"Preparing for the attack: regulation of constitutive defense in eucalypts"
 

October 27^th

Victor Kabay
School of Botany
University of Melbourne
Host: TBA

“The Fate of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Plant-Soil Systems”

November 3^rd

Tracy Rout
Applied Environmental Decision Making and Analysis
Host: Dr. Mick McCarthy

“Monitoring Absence: Implication for Eradication, Extinction and Disease Suppression”