Professor Ary Hoffmann from the School of BioSciences and Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Foreign Honorary Member — Evolutionary and Population Biology, and Ecology.
Professor Phil Batterham, researcher at the Bio21 Institute, is part of an international effort to decode the Australian sheep blowfly genome, adding ammunition to the battle against one of the nation’s most insidious pests.
Image for July: Scanning electron microscopy of a section of barley root. Dr Eric Hanssen (Bio21 Advanced Microscopy Facility and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) and Dr Allison Van De Meene (Bioscience and Plant Cell Wall ARC Center of Excellence)