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Outstanding year for ARC Discovery Grants
30, Oct 2025

Outstanding year for ARC Discovery Grants

In a bumper year for synthetic biology, eight Centre teams have been awarded Australian Research Council Discovery grants for projects ranging from improving protein switches to creating new-to-nature silks. Centre...

How an Industry PhD Student is Tackling Methane
8, Sep 2025

How an Industry PhD Student is Tackling Methane

When chemist-turned-biotechnologist Noelia Rubio moved from Argentina to Australia just before COVID, she didn’t expect her career to take her from studying microbes in the lab to designing solutions for...

Bridging the Gap: Why Industry and Academia Need Each Other
19, Aug 2025

Bridging the Gap: Why Industry and Academia Need Each Other

When science meets business, innovation flourishes. For Sinead Robinson-Cast, a research scientist at Australian biotech company Microbiogen, collaboration between industry and academia has been nothing short of transformative.  Sinead has...

Chemicals from plastics can kill oxygen-producing ocean bacteria
3, Nov 2022

Chemicals from plastics can kill oxygen-producing ocean bacteria

A new study has found that the chemicals leaching from plastics can change the mix of microbial life in seawater and can harm microbes critical to oxygen production in our...

Redefining the popular view of microbes
15, Nov 2021

Redefining the popular view of microbes

By Anahit Peneysan Macquarie University node When I present a lecture to a general audience, I often start with the same slide. It is a blank slide, and I ask...