The internet is fundamentally changing the nature of text books, newspapers and magazines, transforming how we create and use such documents. These changes are set to accelerate with near universal access to high-speed broadband and an ever increasing range of mobile devices to access and create documents.

Statistical analysis of large-scale genome-wide biological datasets frequently results in predictions of large networks that are difficult to interpret or to effectively compare. We are investigating how plants respond to the environment, and the gene regulatory networks underlying these responses, with the aim of developing crops with increased tolerance to unfavourable environments. We have extensive time series gene expression profiles, gene regulatory network models and experimental validation data for multiple environmental stress conditions.

Humans use a broad range of representational forms including written language, pictures, notations, and diagrams. For decades, cognitive scientists and linguists have studied how humans communicate, reason and learn with them. Our research contributes to this body of knowledge by finding out more about the complex ways in which people, representations and contexts interact. We are interested in questions such as "What representations are most effective for a given task?" and "How can we help people choose good representations?" Our research has real-world relevance by informing the design of effective information displays and interactive systems.

This project is developing novel methods for spatio-temporal visualisation, applying them to representing the world's history across all timescales, with content currently focused on the Australasian region. Early prototypes were built in Adobe Flash, and the techniques thus demonstrated are now being generalised into a schema applicable to other development frameworks such as the Google Earth API, Open Layers and HTML5/Javascript.

Command and control structures within and across the emergency services follow principles documented in the Australian Inter-Service Incident Management System (AIIMS). AIIMS is a flexible system that describes management roles, reporting lines and responsibilities at each level of emergency response for both small and large-scale events. Given command and control structures are fluid and change depending on the situation at hand, understanding and recording the current nature of the hierarchies can be difficult. Often this knowledge and understanding is compromised, as there is not one formal representation of the hierarchy across the various emergency services. As there is no formal visualisation, there is also no record of how the hierarchy has evolved over the course of a significant emergency incident.

Pathogens suppress host immunity by targeting a range of secreted proteins, pathogenicity effectors, to the cytoplasm of host cells. These effectors, once they have traversed the host plasma-membrane, are targeted to many subcellular locations where they disrupt the host immune system to enable pathogen growth and reproduction. We have used the technique of matrix yeast two hybrid to identify the host targets of 200 pathogenicity effectors. This has revealed a complex and highly interconnected interaction network.