Research

BNA offers research facilities and services to national and international scientists, private industry, government and research organisations.

Some of our current research includes:

• Molecular phylogeny of marine sponges
  Charles Darwin University
  Museum and Art Gallery of the NT
  
  
• Managing acid mine drainage in northern Australia using microbial mats
  
  
• Dispersal and recruitment in aquatic invertebrates inhabiting temporary streams
  Charles Darwin University
  
  
• Evolution and biogeography of freshwater crayfish
  Charles Darwin University
  University of Tasmania
  Edith Cowan University
  
  
• Coastal monitoring using microbes
  Charles Darwin University
  Alcan Gove
  Australian Institute of Marine Science
  
  
• Plant disease diagnostics
  Charles Darwin University
  
  
• Impact of fire and grazing on soil fauna diversity
  Charles Darwin University
  Edith Cowan University
  
  
• The molecular epidemiology of melioidosis
  Menzies School of Health Research
  
  
• Phytoplasma popular articles:
  • Strawberryfields and papaya plantations forever
  • Sequencing the genome of Candidatus Phytoplasma australiense