University of Adelaide PHD student, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries has recently been featured on science-based show – Scope TV.
Erinn is researching a group of parasitoid wasps that could help to reduce caterpillar numbers and boost food crops across the country. She has enlisted the help of citizen scientists to breed caterpillars and if wasps are found in the caterpillars, the citizens send the wasps in for testing in her lab.
Erinn is also a FameLab Award Winner.
Insect expert Dr Erinn Fagan-Jeffries from the University of Adelaide’s School of Biological Sciences, has thrown her support behind a new mission launched by Taxonomy Australia, a new program of the Australian Academy of Science, to discover and document all unknown Australian species by 2050. The 25-year mission follows the release of a report by Deloitte Access Economics, which has […]
The Waite Campus is the place to be on Thursday 1 November 2018! Not only famous for it’s ‘One Day Wine Sale’, Waite will also be hosting it’s third annual ‘Waite in the Spotlight’ event at Lirra Lirra. This is your chance to stock up on wines from the University of Adelaide ahead of the […]
The community is invited to join the Natural Resources SA Murray-Darling Basin (SAMDB) for a fun night of information and entertainment to celebrate National Science Week 11-19 August. When: 5:00pm – 8:30pm, Friday 17 August Where: Ukaria Cultural Centre, Mount Barker Summit Bookings: Eventbrite Natural Resources SAMDB project officer Katie Irvine said “Come along and be […]
Guest post by Adelaide University PHD Student Erinn Peta Fagan-Jefferies There are a predicted 600,000 species of plant and animal in Australia, but only 30% have been formally documented and named. Taxonomy, the science of describing new species, is normally a slow process – but with so many species waiting to be documented, can we somehow […]
Children’s University Australia is an International arm of the program which focuses on giving children aged 7-14 experience outside their classrooms. It is an outreach initiative of the University of Adelaide and it encourages children to think outside the box with learning experiences at locations across the state including the State Library, SA Museum and […]
Erinn Fagan-Jeffries is through to the FINAL of FameLab competition and will compete in the final on the 10th June. Erinn competed in the semi-final of FameLab at the Cheltenham Festival in the UK yesterday, up against 27 competitors from around the world. The other finalists are: Dina El-Zohiry (Egypt) Alba Aguion (Spain) Erinn Fagan-Jeffries […]
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