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Why do some frogs rebound after disease?

Laura Brannelly and colleagues from Australia and around the world published a review and synthesis paper in Ecology Letters describing how some species survive after disease epidemics and how we can use this information to inform management.

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PhD candidates Anthony Waddle and Rebecca Webb awarded Holsworth research grants

Anthony Waddle and Rebecca Webb were awarded research grants contributed by the Ecological Society of Australia and the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment in the 2020 Round 1 awarding round.

 

PhD student Danielle Wallace was awarded the Peter Rankin Trust Fund for Herpetology award

PhD student Danielle Wallace was awarded a research grant provided by the Peter Rankin Trust Fund for Herpetology in partnership with the Australian Museum Research Institute to help support the PhD Research on breeding behaviours and disease on amphibian frog species.

 

eDNA for pathogen detection can help frog conservation

Laura Brannelly and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh published a paper in Oecologia exploring how environmental DNA can be used to detect amphibian pathogens and how it can help frog conservation.

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Laura Brannelly was named ESA’s Wiley Next Generation Ecologist award winner

Laura Brannelly was awarded the ECR 2020 Next Generation Ecologist award, and she will use the funding to visit researchers in bioinformatics and conservation

 

Lee Berger was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Lee Berger and 23 other nationally recognised scientists were elected as a Fellow of the Academy. Lee is the first female Vet to be elected.

Welcome, Danielle Wallace!

Danielle has just enrolled in a PhD program with our One Health Research Group at the University of Melbourne.  Danielle will be exploring the effects of disease on breeding behaviours in Australian frogs.  Welcome to the group!

Anthony Waddle was awarded a Graduate Education Scholarship

The One Health Research Group is thrilled to announce that our PhD Candidate Anthony Waddle is the proud recipient of a Graduate Education Scholarship from the American Australian Association! The Scholarship is aimed to fund Anthony’s professional development and travel during his PhD research. Congratulations Anthony! Tremendous achievement.

AAA Graduate Education Scholarship 2020

Adeline Chew won a research award!

Masters student Adeline Chew was awarded the Australia Society of Microbiology VIC Branch Summer Student Research Award 2020 for her project entitled “The effects of heavy metals on the growth rate of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis“. Adeline will be presenting the results of her research project at the ASM VIC Branch Nancy Millis Award Night.  The event is scheduled for 25 February 2020, please come and support Adeline. Congrats Adeline, awesome job!

 

Lee Skerratt: Saving species with a 2019 ARC Future Fellowship

Group leader and Associate Professor Lee Skerratt has been awarded a 2019 Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship that will aid his biotechnology research into disease immunity. The research aims to save dwindling frog populations while proving the value of synthetic biology in restoring threatened wildlife populations.

University of Melbourne News and Events

 

The case of the missing frogs

Is it too late to save them?  The Australian interviewed OHRG leaders Lee Berger and Lee Skerratt to get some answers!

Chytrid is named the worst disease

In a new publication the OHRG and many international collaborators published in Science, the amphibian chytrid fungus is listed as the worst wildlife disease on record.

The Conversation The Pursuit

PM’s life scientist of the year

Lee Berger won the Frank Frenner life scientist of the year 2018

The Conversation

 

Science and the challenges of work/life balance

ARC Future Fellow Lee Berger has some work/life balance tricks