The Thomas Davies Research Grant for Marine, Soil and Plant Biology is supporting the wide-ranging work of nine early- and mid-career researchers. The grant of up to $20,000 is awarded annually and funded through a generous philanthropic bequest from the estate of the late Thomas Lewis Davies to the Australian Academy of Science. Dr Tanveer Adyel, of the University of South Australia: Harnessing Acanthamoeba to control cyanobacteria.