Time

Name

PROG

SUPERVISOR

CO SUPERVISOR/s

PROJECT TITLE

PS

Wed Mar 2

12:00-12:20

Crean, Lauren

Hons

Tony Millar

Role of the miR159-GAMYB pathway in defense gene response in Arabidopsis

12:20-12:40

Gall, Barnabas

Hons

Tony Millar

Trevor Rapson (Trevor.Rapson@csiro.au); Rob Allen (Rob.Allen@csiro.au)

Improving Nitrogenase solubility using computational structural predictions to guide experimental approaches

12:40-13:00

Huang, Jiaxi

Hons

Melanie Carmody

Barry Pogson

Engineering an improved SAL1 drought tolerance enzyme in plants

13:00-13:20

Jin, Marvin

Hons

Michael Djordjevic

Uli Mathesius, Rebecca Haling (Rebecca.Haling@csiro.au), Richard Simpson (Richard.Simpson@csiro.au), Michael Taleski, Kelly Chapman

Deciphering the role of peptide hormones in controlling root system growth and arachitecture

Break

13:40-14:00

Tyrrel, Rebeccah

Hons

Diep Ganguly

Barry Pogson

Engineering 5’ UTRs to control protein production in plants.

14:00-14:20

Marsh, Grace

Hons

John Rathjen

Jana Sperschneider

Diurnal expression of host and pathogen genes during rust pathogenesis

14:20-14:40

Pfitz, Victoria Elizabeth

Masters

Peter Solomon

Effector proteins and Kex2 protease inn Parastagonospora nodorum

14:40-15:00

Thomson, Ashleigh

Hons

Peter Solomon

Characterisation of the Pdi3 protein disulfide isomerase in P. nodorum

15:00-15:20

Zhang, Rose

Hons

Uli Mathesius

Annamaria de Rosa, Samantha McGaughey

characterisation of two nodule-specific aquaporins in Medicago trunctula