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Professor Ben Cocks and a team of fellow researchers have recreated the DNA of an ancestral wallaby gene from 60 million years year ago – a time when Australia was still part of Gondwana. Their work is part of an international quest launched by the Infectious Diseases Society of America to produce ten antibiotics to […]
December 6, 2011
La Trobe scientists receive $3.2 m for national capacity building – La Trobe University has received more than $3.2 million from the highly competitive Australian Research Council grants scheme to further the work of its leading research teams. Included in this is more than a million dollars for state-of-the-art scientific instrumentation, forging closer links […]
December 6, 2011
Australia faces real risks in exchange for dubious benefits from the US brokered Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement which was announced during President Obama’s recent sweep of Australia and the Bali APEC meeting. Lecturer in Australian Politics, Dr Russell Marks, and Research Fellow in Public Health and Human Biosciences, Dr Deborah Gleeson, are concerned […]
December 6, 2011
La Trobe archaeologist helps estimate the age of African fossil finds – Dr Andy Herries has helped firm up a date of almost two million years ago for a number of South African fossils that made world headlines last year when hailed as some of the most complete early human fossils ever found. He is […]
December 6, 2011
The University has launched its prestigious Confucius Institute, strengthening China links across the higher education sector, business, government and the community. Set up in conjunction with Chongqing University, the Institute has the support of the Chinese Government as a non-profit public body with a strong focus on Chinese language and culture. Its first program started […]
December 6, 2011
The stomach of fledgling mutton birds, or Short-tailed Shearwaters, on Victoria’s Phillip Island have been found to contain an average of more than seven pieces of plastic per bird – weighing some 113 mg. This, says La Trobe University’s Dr Mark Carey, may affect the life cycle of this species and their reproductive success, and […]
December 6, 2011
A leading authority on Russia, historian Dr Robert Horvath, has received a prestigious federal government ‘Future Fellowship’ worth more than $600,000 for research into state-sponsored nationalism and the ominous rise of militant xenophobia in Russia. Dr Horvath’s Fellowship is part of a series of Australian Research Council (ARC) awards announced in November by Innovation Minister Senator Kim […]
December 6, 2011
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