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Science and Maths Postgrad Info Session

Explore your research potential. Work on a research project under the supervision of an academic in the Faculty.

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Worms and honey, the unlikely heroes

Can parasitic worms help to stop MS? Will Australian medicinal honey be the solution to antibiotic resistance? On 15 August 2017, two UTS scientists explain how their innovative research will significantly advance medical research and our public health.

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How does the Great Barrier Reef get its nitrogen fix?

Using new techniques, that target bacterial genes, specialised nitrogen-fixing bacteria have been identified for the first time.

UTS’s Nural Cokcetin awarded runner-up at Famelab International

Nural Cokcetin’s Famelab journey came to an exciting conclusion this month, after she was named joint runner-up (second place) at the 2017 Famelab International final held at the Cheltenham Science Festival.

Internship program brings Chinese medicine to Concord Hospital

UTS Science has partnered with Concord Hospital to introduce acupuncture as a potential treatment option for oncology patients.

The upside of oily hair – how salon waste could lower the boom on spills

When most of us go for a trim, we don’t think much of what happens to our locks after they’ve been given the chop. They probably just get swept up and chucked in the bin, destined to take up precious landfill space.

Events

C3 Seminar: Heroen Verbruggen	28 June 2017
SIP Series - Respitech lab overview	29 June 2017
2016 Census Data Seminars	12 July 2017

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Dr Megan Phillips
Lecturer, School of Life Sciences

Megan Phillips Megan is a Lecturer and the Subject Coordinator for 91107 The Biosphere and 91159 Environmental Remediation. Her research focuses on plant species in contaminated surface landscapes. She has previously explored the reproduction and life-history traits of invasive species and phylogenetically-related, non-invasive species in Australia.