News

Nov 5, 2025

New Asgard archaea discoverd in the news...New Scientist

Nov 5, 2025

Latest from the Burnslab featured in New Scientist….welcome to a new Asgard kid on the block

Nov 5, 2025

Jun 18, 2025

Marie winning best poster prize at Faculty 1MT com

Jun 18, 2025

Marie Miller (SpeedX and Burnslab fame) winning best poster showcasing her latest findings

Jun 18, 2025

Mar 20, 2023

ARC grant success for the dream team

Mar 20, 2023

Brendan, Debnath, and Iain with a major grant to study our ancient ancestors, the Asgard archaea.

Mar 20, 2023

Jan 20, 2022

Pushing the sustainability envelope

Jan 20, 2022

Brendan Burns presenting to the Garvan Institute on Sustainability in the lab (Jan 2022)

Jan 20, 2022

Jan 7, 2022

Silver in Sustainability

Jan 7, 2022

The Burnslab is Recognised with a LEAF Medal for Lab Sustainability

Jan 7, 2022

Dec 1, 2021

A Trendy Review

Dec 1, 2021

Steph and Fraser Review the Chimeric Origin of Eukaryotes

Dec 1, 2021

Nov 4, 2021

And the winner is...

Nov 4, 2021

Fraser recognised with the UNSW Postgraduate Council’s Outstanding Student Award

Nov 4, 2021

Mining the Mats

Nov 4, 2021

Julia and Leia present their honours work

Nov 4, 2021

Aug 31, 2021

Jamming on Asgard

Aug 31, 2021

Fraser wins a poster prize for his work on Asgard archaea at JAMS10

Aug 31, 2021

Rocking the Cradle of Life...

Aug 31, 2021

See Brendan Burns present at National Science Week

Aug 31, 2021

May Odin give you knowledge….and may Loki give you laughter as you go

Aug 31, 2021

Steph completes her honours degree!

Aug 31, 2021

Asgardians of the Galaxy

Aug 31, 2021

Fraser presents at the one minute thesis competition

Aug 31, 2021

Jun 10, 2021

New kid on the block...

Jun 10, 2021

Burnslab PhD student Laurene LeClerc and supervisors Brendan Burns and Nathan Lo at the Tick-borne Disease Research Launch.

Jun 10, 2021

May 5, 2021

Scarlett in Space

May 5, 2021

Scarlett Recognised in the Australian Space Awards as 2021 Graduate of the Year Finalist

May 5, 2021

Apr 27, 2021

New Group Pics

Apr 27, 2021

Meet the latest Burns Lab crew…

Apr 27, 2021

Apr 9, 2021

Phosphorus as a Potential Biosignature

Apr 9, 2021

Latest Review highlights the use of phosphorus in the search for life in the beyond

Apr 9, 2021

Feb 26, 2021

Mars, Mats and Viruses

Feb 26, 2021

Hear Brendan speak about all things stromatolite, virus and Mars related on the Lost in Science podcast

Feb 26, 2021

Welcome to Leia and Julia

Feb 26, 2021

The Burns Lab welcomes two new honours students

Feb 26, 2021

Feb 17, 2021

Trending in Microbiology

Feb 17, 2021

Burns Lab research on the role of viruses in Stromatolite formation to feature on the cover of Trends in Microbiology

Feb 17, 2021

Oct 19, 2020

Steph... You're Our Only Hope

Oct 19, 2020

Steph giving her research plan for Honours…Odin, Odin, Odin

Oct 19, 2020

Oct 14, 2020

Art Meets Science

Oct 14, 2020

New exhibit ‘Worlding with Oysters’ celebrating Indigenous art and science, opened by Brendan Burns.

Oct 14, 2020

Sep 29, 2020

Farewell the Handyman

Sep 29, 2020

Alan has left the building, The Burns lab loses an awesome student, pos-doc, and gains an international colleague

Sep 29, 2020

Sep 28, 2020

Microbes Breathing Arsenic

Sep 28, 2020

Arsenic Based Photosynthesis and Respiration in Modern Microbial Mats

Sep 28, 2020

Sep 21, 2020

Microbial Dark Matter Matters in Microbial Mats

Sep 21, 2020

The Latest Burns Lab Publication (and video!)

Sep 21, 2020

Sep 18, 2020

Welcome (back) Steph for her Honours

Sep 18, 2020

Sep 15, 2020

Men are from Mars…phosphines on Venus

Sep 15, 2020

Traces of phosphine on Venus may indicate biological activity

Sep 15, 2020

Sep 11, 2020

Matt Damon, Dark Matter and the Galaxy

Sep 11, 2020

The Burns Lab at AAM2020!

Sep 11, 2020

Aug 27, 2020

Microbes Need their Space

Aug 27, 2020

Brendan Burns comments on the possibility of microbes jumping between planets

Aug 27, 2020

Jul 31, 2020

Candle has been lit

Jul 31, 2020

Brendan Burns commenting in the media on the successful launch of Mars 2020 Perseverance

Jul 31, 2020

Jul 29, 2020

Burnslab live on air

Jul 29, 2020

Brendan Burns, waxing lyrical on all things science in a pandemic, stromatolites, and Asgard archaea, in a podcast as part of National Science Week.

Jul 29, 2020

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