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ANSTO contributes to new understanding of how COVID infects humans

ANSTO’s National Deuteration Facility has provided deuterated cholesterol for international research to gain a better understanding of how the Spike protein of the COVID virus, SARS-Co-V-2, infects human cells through a membrane fusion mechanism.

Nuclear science and the environment: threat or opportunity?

Dr Yingjie Zhang

Principal Research Scientist, Manager - Spent Fuel Program (Nuclear Fuel Cycle)

Role at ANSTO

Dr Phoebe Meagher

Wildlife Conservation Officer, Taronga Conservation Society Australia

Phoebe joined Taronga as part of the Wildlife Hospital team in 2012, where she developed a research interest in conservation forensics, leading an international project developing forensic tools to help save the world’s most hea

Dr Karina Meredith

Director of the new Environment Research and Technology Group

Role at ANSTO

Dr Karina Meredith was appointed Director of the new Research and Technology Group for Environment effective 15 January 2024.

Clean water hackathon delivers potential solutions

Sri Lankan students took part in an innovative hackathon to develop novel solutions to a wastewater runoff problem from reverse osmosis water treatment plants.

Thomas Sanders

Accelerator Operator

Role at ANSTO

Ms Ruth Plathe

Scientific Support Officer - Infrared

Ruth Plathe completed an undergraduate degree, with honours, in Optoelectronics at Victoria University. Her honours year was spent with the Melbourne University, School of Physics, Optics group.

The impact of boron on glass surface properties

Within the bulk structure of such glasses, boron is known to be a key actor, as it exhibits intriguing and composition-dependent changes in coordination state that often drive properties.