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University of Sydney leads PM’s Prizes for Science

24 May 2023 -
Credit: Terri Shine. Professor Rick Shine with PhD student Dan Natusch and a scrub python. ... Professor Rick Shine on broad-head snake survey at Yalwal Plateau near Nowra.
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Cane toad genome sequenced for the first time

2 December 2019 -
Emeritus Professor Rick Shine with his cane toad, Galadriel. For this project, the Australian team worked at the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics. ... How fauna can survive cane toads. Professor Rick Shine explains how native fauna can learn to avoid
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Sydney scoops NSW Premier’s Prizes

19 October 2016 -
Early career researcher Dr Elizabeth New, 32, in her laboratory. Above: Photo of Professor Rick Shine taken near Broken Hill by Terri Shine. ... 4. 2016 New South Wales Scientist of the Year. Professor Rick Shine of the Shine Lab.
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How urban seasnakes lost their stripes

8 January 2020 -
Professor Rick Shine. Snakes shed their stripes to survive. Turtle-headed seasnake photos by Claire Goiran. ... The animals I study continue to astonish me,” said Professor Rick Shine at the University of Sydney's School of Life and Environmental
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ARC funds ‘teacher toad’ plan to cut deadly cane toad threat

7 January 2020 -
24 July 2017. The University of Sydney's Professor Rick Shine hopes to reduce the deadly threat from cane toads invading Australia's Kimberley region by teaching native predators to eat ... Professor Rick Shine, University of Sydney. “Methods for
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2016 honour roll of University researchers

21 January 2020 -
2016 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. Professor Rick Shine Shine Lab, SOLES. ... New South Wales Scientist of the Year. Professor Rick Shine Shine Lab.
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Cane toad testes smaller at the invasion front

24 July 2019 -
In new research Emeritus Professor Rick Shine shows that the invasive species, toxic to native predators, has smaller testicles the further from its settled territory. ... Professor Rick Shine. “So, when it comes time to breed, he will probably be the
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Funding fosters strategic relationships

13 December 2019 -
projects. Professor Rick Shine, a reptile specialist, will continue his on-going investigations into the impact of cane toads on southern Australia. ... ARC funding will allow Rick and his collaborative team to investigate control mechanisms to improve
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Cane toads are 'reluctant warriors' when it comes to oozing toxin

22 October 2019 -
These animals are reluctant warriors.”. A cane toad releasing toxin. The study, co-authored by acclaimed evolutionary biologist Emeritus Professor Rick Shine and Associate Professor Kim Bell-Anderson, has three major
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10 best Sydney science discoveries in 2017

13 December 2019 -
Professor Rick Shine, working with researchers in New Caledonia, found that industrial pollution was having an evolutionary impact on turtle-headed seasnakes living on coral reefs. ... Professor Shine says that the findings are yet another example of
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2017/12/15/10-best-sydney-science-discoveries-in-2017.html