Arabidopsis research has informed other disciplines including human biology and Lucia Strader and co-authors describe the role of Arabidopsis in elucidating immune mechanisms here.

Detailed surveys of an endangered skink find it is likely to decline in a region of high-elevation cloud rainforests supporting exceptional biodiversity and endemism. But it remains possible that gullies provide microclimatic refugia to climate change.

Jonathan Edwards et al describe a coalified log containing tunnels and coprolites attributable to termites plus smaller coprolites matching the size range of mites-the earliest trace fossil evidence of these taxa in circumpolar environments in Australia

We have just opened searches for three new continuing Teaching & Research Academics. All positions are open at Level B (Lecturer) or Level C (Senior Lecturer), and we have one position in Genomics and two in Ecology.

RT @ChemistryMonash: Looking for your first job after graduating or planning your next career move? Join us for Sci-Alumni Talks. This even….

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RT @BBM_Wong: Check out the Lord Howe Island stick insect on the June cover of @Trends_Ecol_Evo featuring our article about integration ani….

RT @LauraOsellame1: Join us for the 23rd Melbourne Protein Group Student Symposium, at Bio21, Wednesday 16th July 2025. Generous talk and p….

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Will evolving Dengue viruses at different temperatures affect their fitness in two different hosts? Fhallon Ware-Gilmore @mattd_hall Carla Sgro and colleagues have investigated this

RT @Zahra_F_Islam: Very excited to finally share this news!! It's such an honour to receive the Jim Pittard Award as recognition of both my….

Globally, species with small distributions face disproportionate extinction risk. A case study by Michelle Ward et al serves as a template for the identification of important habitat for threatened species.

The MACSYS Node at Monash University has multiple PhD Scholarships available to work on some exciting projects!.$41,753 p.a. stipend.PhD: 3.5 to 4 years.Additional funding available to support travel and advanced training.

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RT @Monash_Science: "Insects are everywhere—and so are the people who can help us understand them." On #BiodiversityDay, meet @MonashBiol’s….

RT @FZMarques: Our review on the gut-heart axis published in @CircRes is now out We cover gut #microbiome, 'leaky….

Congratulations to Emily Roycroft who recently won the Dobzhansky Prize.

Pathogenesis-related protein is a general term often given to genes that are strongly induced by stress or pathogen attack. Yanfei Zhou, John Bowman and colleagues propose a model for flavonoid biosynthesis in Marchantia polymorpha.

Nutrition and temperature can interact and @BrookeZanco and colleagues found that the negative effects of nutritional stress were significantly greater in tropical populations of fruit flies under warmer temperatures

What do we know about DNA repeats? @GATCLab @sridevisureshku and colleagues emphasise the underexplored nature and immense potential of this area of research, particularly in plants