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22 Jul 2024 PBG Team Writing Retreat

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In late July, the Population Biology and Genomics team (Ben, Brenton, Haylee, Judy, Andy, John, Marta, and Holly) embarked on our first Writing Retreat! The ...

03 July 2024 Toad containment zone workshop 1

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Working with the fantastic team at Rangelands NRM, we delivered the first of two major workshops around the cane toad containment zone (TCZ). The workshop wa...

24 May 2024 Coding Club is up and running!

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We have launched the Curtin University School of Molecular & Life Sciences Coding Club! Presented by PBG, Coding Club will run fortnightly during the tea...

21 Feb 2024 Invasive Species Working Group

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Brenton recently attended the first Invasive Species Working Group for the Integrated Pest Management Omics initiative. Brenton met with a variety of experts...

12 Dec 2023 We have a lab!

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Over the past month Haylee and Brenton have been working to establish the Population Biology and Genomics Group laboratory, and we are pleased to say, it is ...

1 Dec 2023 MLS Annual Symposium

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Ben was recently invited to deliver the plenary talk at the annual Curtin University School of Molecular and Life Sciences research symposium. Ben’s presenta...

WABSI Symposium

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Brenton was recently invited to give a small talk at a symposium being held at the official signing of the 2024-2028 Western Australian Biodiversity Science ...

New podcast episode

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Brenton was recently invited to contribute to the Forrest Research Foundation’s podcast series, Clever Quokkas.

Little beetle, big problem.

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I recently spent a day with the Polyphagous Shot-Hole Borer Incident Response Team (PSHBIRT for short). Mind blown.

Mammal Society Plenary

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Brenton was recently invited to give a plenary talk at the 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society.

11 Sept 2023 Biodiversity Conference

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Members of the Population Biology and Genomics Group attended the Biodiversity Conference 2023: Listen to Country, where they presented on the impending cane...

Tash Harrison wins travel grant

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Congratulations to Tash Harrison, this year’s recipient of the Ada Jackson Irwin Street Commemoration Award in Zoology, at UWA.

Announced!

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We’ve been announced!

WA Naturalists Seminar

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Brenton was recently invited to give a talk to the Darling Range Branch of the WA Naturalists’ Club.

Arrival

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Ben and Brenton have arrived at Curtin and are working through the onboarding process. We have been ably assisted by our School business manager, Gail Wesco...

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Coronavirus forecast

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I've made a shiny app that gives a ten-day forecast, by country, on likely numbers of coronavirus cases. The app is designed to give people a sense of how...

Picking pairs for climate change

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Let's start with a doomed species. The white lemuroid possum is a spectacular creature that lives in the high altitude rainforest of Australia. As climate c...

Genetic back burning to halt invasions

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Rather than cut and paste, here's a link to a quick article explaining the idea. Read it and then read on... How on earth did we ever come up with th...

Evolution makes invasions unpredictable

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Pop quiz: what have cancer and cane toads got in common? Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. They're both examples of a spreading population. In the case of...

Stopping the toad invasion

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Cane toads are really good invaders.  They move astonishing distances, and they breed like maniacs.  A female toad can lay thousands of eggs at a ...

Snakes and Toads

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You may or may not have gathered by now, but I care about snakes.  In fact, it could be argued that I misspent my youth chasing them.  In these ad...

Cane toads and advancing range edges

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In northern Australia, the cane toad front pushes westward at around 55km per year; more than five times faster than it used to advance when toads were...

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