'Brainiac' parrot put to the test
Zealandia's kaka are turning the notion of "bird brain" on its head.The native parrots' intelligence is being put to the test by Victoria University PhD student Julia Loepelt.
2014 News
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Grants enable neurological research at Victoria
Three researchers from Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Biological Sciences have received funding in the Neurological Foundation’s 2014 grant round.
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Inbreeding danger for little spotted kiwi – study
While rising populations of little spotted kiwi are encouraging, the rapid growth could be masking the damaging effects of inbreeding, new research shows.
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Heart attack treatments ineffective for some
Victoria University of Wellington research has identified reasons why a significant portion of heart attack patients do not respond to commonly used treatments.
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Help researchers identify Wellington’s wildlife
Victor Anton, a research assistant from Victoria’s School of Biological Sciences, is using citizen science to uncover the impact of some of New Zealand’s common predators on biodiversity in urban and urban fringe areas.
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Best student publication awards 2014 announced
SBS is pleased to announce the winners of the Best SBS Student Publication Awards for 2014.
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The Marsden Flag visits Hawaii
Associate Professor Simon Davy is a marine biologist researcher based at the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington. Recently, his research team visited Hawaii as part of a Marsden grant awarded in 2012 and took the Marsden flag along with them.
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SBS students also win big at the combined NZMS/NZSBMB meeting!
Last week, the combined meeting of the NZ Microbiology Society and Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology was held here in Wellington. Once again, SBS students continued the school’s excellent record of mopping up the prize pool!
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SBS students win big at the NZ Ecological Society Conference 2014
Congratulations to our postgraduate students who cleaned up at this year's NZ Ecological Society Conference in Palmerston North earlier this week.
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Bringing back honey bees using beneficial bacteria
Professor Phil Lester, from Victoria's School of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a highly-sought after James Cook Research Fellowship to research ways of reducing the impact of parasites and pathogens that a central cause of declining bee populations in North America, Europe and New Zealand.