Science & Medicine at ANU

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Researchers from ANU and The University of Queensland have identified a brain circuit linked to the flexible formation of memories that may help explain some of the differences in learning associated with autism spectrum disorder. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/... @jcsmr.bsky.social

science.anu.edu.auAutism study reveals neural circuit supporting flexible learningResearchers have identified a brain circuit linked to the flexible formation of memories that may help explain some of the differences in learning associated with autism spectrum disorder.
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ANU scored a 100-per cent success rate with both of its applications approved in the latest Australian Research Council #ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres and Research Hubs rounds, featuring #biomanufacturing and critical #minerals 🔗 science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

science.anu.edu.auANU receives $8.1 million to unlock new materials, critical resourcesResearchers from The Australian National University (ANU) will share $8.1 million to build a sustainable materials workforce and solve real-world exploration challenges.

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ANU Research School of Biology
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Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 5 November 2026 at 1:00pm for a seminar by Dr Rosemary Cater, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

biology.anu.edu.auBSB Seminar Series: Structural and Mechanistic Insights into Nutrient Transport at the Blood Brain BarrierThe human brain is infiltrated by more than 600 km of blood vessels which are lined by endothelial cells that separate the blood from the brain parenchyma.

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ANU Research School of Biology
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Join us on campus & online on Friday, 6th November 2026 at 3:30pm for a seminar by Nils Kreuter, PhD candidate from the Keogh Group at the Research School of Biology. Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

biology.anu.edu.auE&E PhD Exit Seminar: Examining behavioural patterns and social structure in sharks using acoustic telemetrySocial encounters and behaviours shape the lives of all animals and the degree in which sociality is expressed varies widely across species, resulting in profound ecological and evolutionary consequen...

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Heavy Ion Accelerators
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After a massive team effort by our technical staff at HIAF, the superconducting LINAC was re-started to achieve the highest energies in Australia. These experiments focused on the quantum effects driving fission. Stay tuned to our page to learn more about this research and the LINAC.

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ANU researchers are exploring how some #bacteria use #nickel to cause infections despite its toxicity. Using x-ray #crystallography, they solved the #structure of a chaperone #protein that allows the bacteria to use and transport nickel while avoiding its #toxic properties 🔗 doi.org/10.1107/s205...

doi.orgMolecular structure and nickel-binding capacity of Proteus mirabilis UreEThis study presents a 2.0 Å resolution crystal structure and determined the nickel-binding capacity of the P. mirabilis nickel chaperone UreE. UreE is essential for the delivery of nickel to the metal...

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ANU Research School of Biology
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Join us on campus & online on Wednesday, 28th October 2026 at 12:00pm for a seminar by Dr Peter Bos, from Turku University, Finland. Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

biology.anu.edu.auPS Seminar Series: Identification and characterization of ion channels in the photosynthetic bacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803The photosynthetic bacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 is a widely used model organism for studying bacterial photosynthesis and has considerable biotechnological potential.

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Testing memory chips at our ANU Space Irradiation Beamline for Academia Sinica and Taiwan Space Agency. It was a great opportunity for technical discussions and knowledge exchange. Happy to see how the HIAF-SIBL team supports space-related research from across the Asia-Pacific region.

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Ben Long
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Really lucky to have been involved in this amazing research led by Loraine Rourke and with @scienceanu.bsky.social colleagues @botanicgeek.bsky.social and Dean Price #cyanobacteria #CCM www.newcastle.edu.au/news/2026/09...

newcastle.edu.auTiny ocean microbe unlocks new clue to Earth's carbon cycleResearchers have uncovered a key mechanism that helps one of the world's most abundant marine organisms capture carbon, providing new insights into the ocean's role in regulating Earth's climate.
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Using different versions of a gene is key to RNA evolution. The abundant modification m6A plays a central role in gene regulation. Researchers compared RNA across six mammals and one bird, finding that a small, conserved minority of versions drive most gene expression. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comIsoform-specific m6A deposition and coordinated splicing shape mammalian transcriptome evolution - Nature CommunicationsHow RNA isoforms and chemical marks evolve across species remains poorly understood. This study uses direct RNA long-read sequencing across mammals to show that conserved isoforms account for most exp...

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Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS)
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Outstanding news for the ACEAS community! Six ACEAS researchers have been awarded prestigious ARC Future Fellowships. 👏 Congratulations: 🔹 A/Prof @jaxhalpin.bsky.social 🔹 Dr @adele-morrison.bsky.social 🔹 Dr Amelie Meyer 🔹 Dr @dkhutch.bsky.social 🔹 Prof Jeffrey McGee 🔹 Dr Mark Hoggard

antarctic.org.auSix ACEAS researchers secure prestigious ARC Future Fellowships - ACEASSix researchers from the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) have been awarded prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships, securing funding to advance n...

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Phenomics Australia
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Congratulations to Prof Simon Jiang and the ANU Centre for Personalised Medicine on a $4.5M philanthropic donation to advance personalised approaches to complex immune disease. phenomicsaustralia.org.au/a-new-chapte... @scienceanu.bsky.social

phenomicsaustralia.org.auA New Chapter for Personalised Medicine and a Collaboration Built for DiscoveryPhenomics Australia congratulates Professor Simon Jiang and the entire team at the ANU Centre for Personalised Medicine (CPM) on securing a transformative $4.5 million philanthropic donation […]

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ANU Research School of Physics
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Congratulations to Prof Rod Boswell, honoured for his invention of the helicon plasma source and more than five decades of innovation, winning the 2026 University of Michigan Prize for Excellence in Plasma Science & Engineering physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au @scienceanu.bsky.social

physics.anu.edu.auMichigan Prize honors helicon plasma pioneer Professor Rod BoswellResearch School of Physics News Item - Michigan Prize honors helicon plasma pioneer Professor Rod Boswell
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Professor Christoph Nitsche is on a mission to fight infections and cancer. His team has received our Research School of Chemistry's first ever NHMRC Investigator Grant to continue the work engineering new metal-bound proteins and peptides to treat disease: science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

science.anu.edu.auA chemist’s quest to design new disease-fighting moleculesProfessor Christoph Nitsche is on a mission to develop new proteins and peptides to fight infections and cancer.

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Damien Farine
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The case of the disappearing fairywrens. Article just out focusing on our @fairywrensanu.bsky.social @scienceanu.bsky.social @anupress.bsky.social long term study and the recent declines we've detected. Nice to see our call for long term studies is highlighted. news.mongabay.com/2026/08/supe...

news.mongabay.comSuperb fairywrens disappearing in Australia’s capital: Conserving insects could help save themIf you sit in an Australian park or garden for long enough, chances are you might catch a flash of brilliant feathers out of the corner of your eye: the superb fairywren. With its bright blue and soft...

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Caitlin Byrt
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The amazing powers of cyanobacteria. Regularly on display outside @biologyanu.bsky.social buildings, Sullivans Creek @scienceanu.bsky.social Earth's oceans, & the worlds freshwater, turning greener and greener. Awesome to discover more about ocean cyano C capture - academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

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Heterologous expression in E. coli reveals that bicarbonate transporter BicA2 mediates carbon uptake in marine Prochlorococcus spp. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

academic.oup.comHeterologous expression in E. coli reveals that bicarbonate transporter BicA2 mediates carbon uptake in marine Prochlorococcus spp.Abstract. The widespread oceanic cyanobacterial Prochlorococcus genus is a major contributor to global carbon fixation, yet mechanisms enabling this lineag
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Entangled photon pairs used for quantum light sources can degrade. By encapsulating them in graphene, a @physicsanu.bsky.social team produced a stable a stable photon-pair source and integrated the material onto an optical fibre, a promising step forward in quantum: pubs.acs.org/nalefd/artic...

pubs.acs.orgAir-Stable Bright Entangled Photon-Pair Source from Graphene-Encapsulated van der Waals Ferroelectric NbOI2Abstract. van der Waals (vdW) ferroelectrics are emerging nonlinear photonic materials that combine large second-order susceptibility χ(2) with heterostruc
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ANU researchers Dr Lucy Gloag and Dr Sima Mousavi are the ACT'S Young Tall Poppies for 2026! Lucy and Sima have been recognised for bringing their research on nanoparticles and earthquakes out of the lab and into the community science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

science.anu.edu.auANU chemist and Earth scientist celebrated with Young Tall Poppy AwardsANU chemist and Earth scientist recognised for research excellent and communication in prestigious Young Tall Poppy Awards.
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The acidification of our oceans threatens coral reefs by reducing both seawater pH and carbonate saturation state. Could high-magnesium calcite-producing coral communities help buffer reefs against future acidification? @anu-rses.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

nature.comCrustose coralline algae buffer shallow reef environments from dissolution - Communications Earth & EnvironmentCrustose coralline algae overlying reef structures can reduce coral dissolution, especially at night-time, according to in-situ carbonate chemistry data from the Great Barrier Reef.
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Engineering the enzymes used on industrial scale to improve their performance rapidly reaches an evolutionary ceiling. Our researchers have shown that ceiling can be broken with azatryptophans and a new fluorescence-based kinetic assay, PETra 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

onlinelibrary.wiley.comIsosteric Engineering of Enzymes: Overcoming Activity–Stability Trade‐Offs by Site‐Selective CH → N SubstitutionsCoupling biosynthetic noncanonical amino acid production with genetic code expansion enables site-specific incorporation of azatryptophans into PET-degrading enzymes (PETases). By isosteric single-at...
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There’s still time to join us for STEM Challenges 2026. Unique questions to grow your scientific skills with a social community of STEMthusiasts to inspire you – what's not to love? It all kicks off on 4 August, register now!

science.anu.edu.au2026 STEM ChallengesThis event series is an opportunity for high school and college students to participate in fun and hands-on weekly challenges on a range of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) top...