News: School of Biological Sciences
Research shaping the future – research strategy
The Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology is committed to producing research with excellence, curiosity, and impact, and our research strategy underpins this.
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Science communicators boost the visibility of Uni of Adelaide research
Six University of Adelaide scientists have each won the inaugural Science Communication Prize for increasing the visibility of the University’s scientific research and capabilities, while boosting the profile and accessibility of their own work.
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How effective is hand sanitiser at killing germs?
Scientist Hannah Agnew and summer research students Kate and Rachel set out to find how effective soap and hand sanitiser is against microbes, such as bacteria and viruses.
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Letting faeces provide the facts
Known in the scientific world as scat or faeces, poo can give a lot of very important information about an animal. This explains why Dr Tahlia Perry called on people nationwide to send her some.
Esteemed lecturers inspire a career in STEM
Michelle Guzik sat up and listened at university. And the impact of those lectures has never left her.
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Precision measurement with a light touch
Precision measurement with a light touch In most circumstances, disordered working conditions prevent us from performing accurate work.
Fossil discovery rewrites history of modern human arrival in Europe
Human occupation in Europe was almost 10,000 years earlier than previously documented, a discovery that stands to rewrite modern human and Neanderthal histories on the continent.
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Funding support to discover ways to block the migration of T-cells responsible for MS
University of Adelaide Research Fellow, Dr Iain Comerford has secured funding from Multiple Sclerosis Australia to further his research into the factors that influence specific immune cell (T cell) migration into the bloodstream and the brain in people who have MS.
50 regional and remote schools embark on a mission to uncover new insect species
Schools across South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia will document their local insect biodiversity and discover new insects in their area.
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Australia's deadliest snakes arrived by sea
New research led by the University of Adelaide has found the first tangible evidence that the ancestors of some of Australia’s most venomous snakes arrived by sea rather than by land.
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