Name: Weird and Wonderful Biology
Start: 2024-05-13T19:00:00
End: 2024-05-13T20:30:00
Location: Welcome to Thornbury

Discover why frogs are so special, who lives on the Great Southern Reef and how microbes can save us from plastic pollution.

Why Study Frogs?

Jeff Hughes (RMIT University )

Why should we be interested in frogs? How do we study them? What are the threats for frogs? Our work includes searching for the very rare Giant Burrowing Frog and investigating whether frogs can call underwater

The beauties and the beasts of the Great Southern Reef

Ellie Camprasse (Deakin University)

The Great Southern Reef stretches along 8000 km on the Southern coast of Australia. A majority of species that live on the Great Southern Reef are found nowhere else in the world. Dive in with Elodie to discover some of the most quirky and bizarre inhabitants of this special place.

Can microbes solve the plastic waste crisis?

Zahra Islam (University of Melbourne)

Can the tiny bugs that reside with our soils help save them from plastic pollution? Overuse of plastics is a huge environmental problem, with very few ways of decreasing them. Can microbes come to the rescue again? If we can work out who, how, and where, maybe they might!

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