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Dr Rebecca Webb, University of Melbourne​​​

 

"Know your enemy: Uncovering how the amphibian chytrid fungus interacts with its hosts and environment"

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4th June 2025
Elgin Inn Hawthorn

From 6:30 pm - Talk starts 7:30 pm​​​

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How does the amphibian chytrid fungus deal with stress and how we can use this to our advantage? This talk will explore cool new lab techniques to understand the mechanisms by which chytrid tolerates stress encountered from its host and environment, and how this information could help us develop new conservation strategies.


Bec Webb loves all things frogs but can usually be found pipetting in the lab rather than catching frogs in the rain. She completed her PhD at James Cook University in 2022 and is now a Post Doc with the One Health Research Group at the University of Melbourne.


All are welcome in the audience -
no RSVP/registration necessary​

Join us upstairs at The Elgin from 6:30 pm for dinner and drinks (available for purchase).

Talk starts at 7:30 pm at The Elgin Inn 75 Burwood Road, Hawthorn VIC 3122

   

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Sincere thanks to our 2024 speakers:

 

Sam Wallace

Jessica Keem, Kevin Newman and David De Angelis

Jeff Hughes

Matt Clancy, Justine Holmes, Sue Bendel, Dan Guinto

John Gould

Ellen Cottingham and Stephen Frankenberg

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Dr Kirsten Parris is a Professor of Urban Ecology at the University of Melbourne and previously led the NESP Hub for Clean Air and Urban Landscapes. She loves all things frogs and is passionate about making cities more frog-friendly. In addition to her academic work, she writes both fiction and creative non-fiction pieces about ecology.

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​This talk explored the diverse impacts of sensory pollutants – including noise, light and chemical pollution – on urban frogs.


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Professor Ben Phillips, from the University of Melbourne's School of Biosciences provides a quick tour of work his group has been conducting across northern Australia in the last five years. We will be pondering Cane Toads and how to stop their spread across the landscape, as well as quolls and how to prevent them being poisoned by toads. There will be tales from the field and lab as we ponder the idea of targeted gene flow for conservation.



Join Craig Cleeland, self-confessed Southern Toadlet groupie who has been studying the species for over 20 years, for an immersion into this rapidly declining frog, with particular reference to Greater Melbourne. Craig will explore the dynamics of a population of Southern Toadlets in an effort to understand more about their breeding biology and life history. He will also report on at the results of toadlet occupancy surveys in the Shire of Nillumbik in 2018, along with data from four years of intensive surveys of the last remaining populations in the outer urban areas of Melbourne.

Spoiler alert: we're warned the ending's not great and not to expect too many answers!



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