Geometric biology allows us to understand the dynamics of how living things convert energy flows into mass, at all scales of biological organisation.
The size and shape (together, the ‘geometry’) of organisms ultimately determine these flows.
The Geometric Theory of Biology allows us to predict how things function, grow, and change; be they tumours, schools of fish, or whole forests.
Professor Dustin Marshall is seeking an experienced ecologist / evolutionary biologist, who specialises in microalgal biology with a strong empirical background, to explore the ways in which size affects the structure and function of marine phytoplankton.
Professor Dustin Marshall is seeking a marine larval biologist, with strong quantitative skills, to explore the ways in which temperature affects the energetics of development in marine invertebrates.
Hayley Cameron, Dustin Marshall and Tim Coulson examine how different species that rely on the same resources can co-exist. And it’s not all about competition.
Published in Ecology Letters.
PhD student Louise Nørgaard and supervisors Ben Phillips and the Centre’s Matt Hall have found evidence of a pathogen that exploits the differences in size and behaviour of male and female hosts to optimize its own chance of successful infection.
Christen Mirth has been recognised for her research on how nutrition shapes development, having been awarded the Ross Crozier medal by the Genetics Society of Australasia.
PhD student Hayley Cameron’s latest experimental study challenges accepted theoretical models by showing that bigger is not always better when it comes to the survival, growth and reproduction of offspring.
Published in Evolution.
It’s party time in the Centre for Geometric Biology: We’ve reached 500 generations of experimental evolution in our large and small algal cells!
One hectare of ocean in which fishing is not allowed (a marine protected area) produces at least five times the amount of fish as an equivalent unprotected hectare.
