I can’t believe we are halfway through the year already! We held our annual Research Retreat at the end of May/start of June, and it was fantastic to finally be able to get many of our Plant Success members together in person. Listening to the variety of exciting research going on across our Centre and celebrating our people was so
There are many reasons teams are formed. For our early career Centre members, you are likely to be undertaking new research and administrative roles as you engage in teamwork within the Centre. Team effectiveness for the Centre’s tasks and research projects, with many examples on display in our 2021 Annual Report, will vary along a complex continuum, from low to high
Plant Success Associate PhD student (now Associate Postdoctoral Researcher), Kate Johnson recorded a series for the That’s What I Call Science radio show/podcast called ‘Tassie Plant People’ in which she interviews members of the Centre for Plant Success about their research. EPISODE 147: Chief Investigator and UTAS Node Leader, Professor Tim Brodribb. Feeding the world, fieldwork in wild forests, navigating
True “transdisciplinarity” is starting to take form in the Centre – and I think it’s great! A major challenge in the plant/crop science communities has been to enhance the ability of scientists operating at differing scales of biological organization to connect their efforts. We have not been able to capture well the nexus between molecular and ecophysiological understanding and concepts
Plant Success Associate Investigator, Associate Professor Rachael Gallager was recently interviewed by the Avid Research podcast in an episode titled “What’s it like to be a plant ecologist and conservationist?”. Rachael discusses what it’s like to be a plant ecologist working to understand the impact of global changes on plant health, distribution and range, and much more! LISTEN ON THE
Following a successful application developed by PhD candidate Kate Johnson, a group of researchers affiliated with the Centre for Plant Success including fellow PhD candidates Beatrice Harrison-Day, Vanessa Tonet, and Ibrahim Bourbia, along with Dr Chris Blackman and Prof. Tim Brodribb, travelled to the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne to access its high-resolution Imaging and Medical Beamline (IMBL). With support from
My research interest is in beneficial symbioses between plant roots and nutrient-acquiring microbes. The Centre for Plant Success is enabling me to connect this underground world to other aspects of plant success by collaborating with Centre members, including the role of symbioses in crops and water relations. Being part of the Centre, one of the things I am proud of
Welcome to our first newsletter of 2022. I was fortunate to have an extended break to welcome in the New Year, with time to relax and unwind. As I reflect on 2021 and the year ahead however, I wanted to acknowledge that I am not starting off as mentally refreshed as I normally would. Given the start to the year here
Today, December 22, officially marks one year of the ARC CoE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture and what a year it has been! We have established our various committees and working groups, held our first Centre-wide Research Retreat and produced some great publications – all whilst dealing with the ongoing struggles that COVID-19 has produced. I am very grateful
