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Exploring Australia’s diversity for pathogens of weeds |
Honours, Master |
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Structural basis of Resolvin mediated GPCR signalling |
Not open to students. |
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New methods in phylogenetics |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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A chytrid fungus nanobody toolkit and genetic transformation approaches |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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A synthetic biology approach to detect pathogen molecules in crops |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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A synthetic biology approach to supercharging plant CO2 fixation |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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A yeast surface display nanobody factory |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Abiotic stress signalling, developmental programming and plant adaptation |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Acoustic communication in birds |
PhD |
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Agrochemical control of stress signalling pathways for enhanced stress tolerance |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Amazalert: raising the alert about critical feedbacks between climate and land use change in Amazonia |
Not open to students. |
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ATLS - the Australian Thermal Load Sensitivity Project. What determines plant sensitivity to heat? |
Summer scholar, Honours, PhD |
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Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF, ARC LIEF project) |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Bioinformatic / Computational methods |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Bioinformatics and gene discovery in wheat rust pathogens |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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Biological controls on soil respiration and its climatic response across a large tropical elevation gradient |
Not open to students. |
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Biologically inspired membranes for the efficient desalination of water |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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C4 Rice Project |
Honours, PhD |
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Caenorhabditis elegans as a potential animal model to study host-pathogen interactions |
Master, PhD |
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Can seedling screens of energy use efficiency in wheat transfer to yield in the field? |
Bachelor |
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Carotenoid derivatives as chloroplast signals |
Honours, PhD |
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Cellular adaptations that allow the transmission and survival of Plasmodium falciparum when taken up by the mosquito |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Characterising the Zymospetoria tritici - wheat interaction |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Characterizing the mRNA-protein “interactome” of plants |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Chromosome condensation and T cell development |
Not open to students. |
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Climate change and carbon gain in Antarctic mosses |
Not open to students. |
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Climate change and leaf-eating mammals |
Summer scholar, Honours |
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Climate Change Impacts on Plants in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park |
Honours |
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CO2 acquisition by cyanobacteria and plants, & Synthetic Biology strategies for transplanting cyanobacterial CO2 Concentrating mechanism parts in crop plants |
Not open to students. |
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CO2 diffusion inside leaves |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Computational models of nerve conduction |
Honours, PhD |
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Control of meristem differentiation and plant architecture in legumes |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Coordination of chloroplast signals with cellular secondary messengers during abiotic and biotic stresses |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Coping with temperature extremes: morphological constraints on leaf function in a warmer, drier climate |
Not open to students. |
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Coral regeneration |
Honours, PhD |
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Decrypting chloroplast signalling networks in C4 photosynthesis at cell type-resolution |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Delivery of virulence proteins by fungal rust pathogens |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Designing new channel inhibitors for treating chronic pain |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Detection of fungal pathogens and their associated microbiome |
Bachelor, Honours, Master |
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Developing molecular tools for functional analysis of microRNA-mediated gene silencing |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Developing new genetic systems for hybrid breeding in wheat |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Developing novel methods to monitor Australia's dark taxa |
Honours, PhD |
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Development of a simple, inexpensive therapeutic cancer vaccine |
Honours, PhD |
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Diseases of amino acid transport |
Not open to students. |
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Disentangling climate and evolutionary controls over the temperature-dependence of leaf respiration |
Not open to students. |
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Drivers of phenotypic evolution in a vulnerable alpine ecosystem |
Summer scholar, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Ecology and ecophysiology in Australian plant species in a climate change context |
Summer scholar, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Ecophysiology of salinity and temperature tolerance in a changing world |
Honours, PhD |
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Effector delivery by fungal rust pathogens |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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Electron transport and ATP synthesis in chloroplasts |
Honours |
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Elucidating the role of plasmodesmata in wheat stripe rust fungal infection |
Summer scholar, Honours |
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Energy use and the plant canopy - measuring local respiration trends. |
Bachelor |
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Engineering microRNA pathways for broad-spectrum plant disease resistance. |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Engineering the secretory pathways of yeast |
Honours, Master |
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Enhancing carotenoid levels in cereals by esterification |
Honours, PhD |
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Enhancing climate-resilience of ecological restoration |
Summer scholar, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Entropy, information theory and biodiversity |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Environmental effects on photosynthesis of species with the C3-C4 intermediate photosynthetic pathway |
Honours |
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Epigenetic integration of genomic and environmental information in honey bees |
Not open to students. |
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Epigenetics of brain plasticity |
Not open to students. |
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Erythrocyte membrane modifications during malaria infection |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Evolution of Varroa tolerance in feral honey bees |
PhD |
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Evolutionary biology of Australian reptiles and amphibians |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Evolutionary significance of early developmental environments: Interaction between maternal effects and offspring thermal environment on phenotypic development and fitness |
PhD |
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Examining Rubisco - Rubisco activase interactions. |
Not open to students. |
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Explore the Secrets of Australian Plants: Unravelling Ecological, Chemical, Molecular, and Genomic Mysteries of Specialised Plant-Pollinator Interactions. |
Bachelor, Summer scholar, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Exploring the combined response of heat and drought on photosynthesis and respiration of C4 plants |
Honours, Master |
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Exploring the evolutionary protein landscape of Rubisco |
PhD |
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Expression of modified tobacco and foreign Rubiscos in tobacco chloroplasts |
Not open to students. |
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Factors impacting gene silencing efficacy in plants |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Flavonoid functions in nitrogen-fixing symbioses |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Function of molecular chaperones in the export and display of parasite proteins |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Functional characterisation of novel autotransporter proteins |
Bachelor, Honours |
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Fungal bioinformatics |
PhD |
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Fungal genomics, evolution, and host adaptation |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Genes, diet and environment |
Not open to students. |
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Genome wide association mapping |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Genomics of wild Australian brewing yeasts |
Summer scholar, Honours, Master |
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Global patterns of biodiversity |
Honours, PhD |
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Honours projects are now available to study a wide range of topics in biosecurity and pathogenesis |
Honours |
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How do biological molecules distinguish between ions? |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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How do effector proteins from necrotrophic fungi cause disease in wheat |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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How mTERF proteins contribute to fertility restoration in plants? |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Identification and characterisation of membrane transport proteins |
Not open to students. |
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Identification and functional characterisation of flax rust effectors |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Identification of 2000 novel protein isoforms in the human and mouse genomes |
Bachelor, PhD |
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Identification of molecular mechanisms of action and direct target genes of developmental signalling pathways in sponges |
PhD |
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Identification of target genes of developmental transcription factors Brachyury, Gata and Caudal in sponges |
PhD |
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Impact of early thermal environments on thermal behaviour and physiology in lizards |
Honours |
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Improving biological nitrogen fixation in legumes |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Improving C4 photosynthesis by genetic manipulation |
Honours, PhD |
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Improving drought tolerance in wheat by selectively inhibiting negative regulators of drought stress signalling |
Honours, PhD |
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Investigating adaptive genomic variation underlying drought tolerance in Eucalyptus |
Bachelor |
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Investigating the genetic architecture of thermal acclimation of leaf energy metabolism using GWAS |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Ion homeostasis in the malaria parasite |
Not open to students. |
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Laboratory overview |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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Landscape genomics |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Linking intracellular communication to whole-plant stress responses |
Honours, PhD |
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Lipid Regulation of Ion Channels |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Mapping the genetic mechanism of plasmodesmata formation and regulation to improve crops |
Summer scholar, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Maternal effects and phenotypic development in lizards |
Honours |
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Membrane transport proteins of the malaria parasite and their roles in conferring drug resistance |
Not open to students. |
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Metagenomics and the analysis of microbial genomes |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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MicroRNA target recognition; the role of the target RNA secondary structure. |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Molecular evolution and Phylogenetics |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Molecular mechanisms of innate immunity |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Molecular tools to reveal protein function and identify drug targets |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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New molecular targets for drugs to treat human and animal nematode parasites |
Not open to students. |
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Novel metabolite discovery and characterisation |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Novel nutrient/metabolite transporters in apicomplexan parasites |
Not open to students. |
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Nutrient acquisition in apicomplexan parasites |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Olfactory pattern recognition in nematodes |
Not open to students. |
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Optimising energy use efficiency to increase wheat yield |
PhD |
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Overcoming limitations in engineering the Rubisco small subunits in higher plant chloroplasts. |
Not open to students. |
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Patterns and correlates of extinction risk |
Honours, PhD |
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PhD projects are now available to study a wide range of topics in biosecurity and pathogenesis |
Master, PhD |
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Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of Australian plants |
Honours, PhD |
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Physics of pan evaporation |
Not open to students. |
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Physiological and molecular regulation of stomatal movement |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Plasmodium falciparum lipid metabolism as a target for malaria intervention strategies |
PhD |
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Projects in science education |
Honours, PhD |
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Protein function in plant immunity |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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Quantifying the impact of phenotypic plasticity on population persistence |
PhD |
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Rates of molecular evolution in parasites |
Honours, PhD |
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Redesign and engineering of the autotransporter β-barrel domain |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Reducing uncertainty in the prediction of leaf respiration in a changing world |
PhD |
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Regulation of chloroplast function via alternative splicing in the nucleus |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Role of poisonous plants in the foraging ecology of marsupials |
Summer scholar, Honours |
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Salinity tolerance along an aridity gradient: linking physiological processes with morphological constraints on leaf function in mangroves |
Not open to students. |
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Save Our Snow gum: Understanding Snow Gum Dieback for Effective and Integrated Management |
Summer scholar, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Serotype-converting bacteriophages and O-antigen modification in Shigella flexneri |
Master, PhD |
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Sexual selection and the evolution of sex roles |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Sexual selection in changing in environments |
Honours, PhD |
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Shigella virulence and vaccine development |
Master, PhD |
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Skeleton formation in soft corals and calcareous sponges |
Honours, PhD |
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Speciation in co-evolved taxa: sexually-deceptive orchids and their mycorrhizal symbionts |
PhD |
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Sponge and coral microbiomes |
PhD |
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Spread of innovation in urban sulphur-crested cockatoos |
Bachelor, Honours, Master |
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Statistical methods of sequence divergence |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Structural basis of drug resistance in the Malaria parasite |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Structural basis of Endometriosis |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Student projects - additional topics for the future |
Honours, Bachelor, Master, PhD |
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Student research projects in CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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Student research projects in tumour immunology and liposome targeting |
Honours |
|
Students opportunities in Sequeira Group |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Studies on the biochemical regulation of C3 and C4 photosynthesis |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Studying pathogen proteins that cause disease |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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SynBio enabled biosensors |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Synthetic biology to engineer novel disease resistance in cereal crops |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Targeting ion transport in apicomplexan parasites with new generation antimalarials |
PhD |
|
The biology of the mitochondrion of apicomplexan parasites |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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The causes and consequences of insect dispersal |
Honours, PhD |
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The causes and effects of mortality in tropical Australian trees |
Not open to students. |
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The directed evolution of RuBisCO |
Not open to students. |
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The ecology and evolution of aposematism |
Honours, PhD |
|
The evolution of thermal tolerance across lifestages |
Honours, PhD |
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The molecular basis for plant susceptibility and immunity to Fusarium wilt disease |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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The role of N-terminal post-translational modifications of the tobacco Rubisco large subunit |
Not open to students. |
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The role of RNA binding proteins in post-transcriptional gene regulation and plant biology. |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Thermal acclimation, metabolism and thermal physiology in lizards |
Honours |
|
To what degree does autotransporter folding inside the bacterial cell resemble autotransporter folding in bulk solution? |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Transport mechanisms and drug resistance in malaria transporters |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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TREASURE (Teaching Research: Evaluating Assessment Strategies for Undergraduate Research Projects) |
Not open to students. |
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Tree water use, bushfires, and the implications for urban and rural water supplies |
Not open to students. |
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Understanding how drought affects the risk of increased mortality in tropical rain forests |
Not open to students. |
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Understanding how gram-negative bacteria respond to oxidative stress |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Understanding range limits and plant migration in response to climate change in Neotropical montane forests: moving from observational models to mechanisms |
Not open to students. |
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Understanding the molecular basis of fungal rust diseases in plants |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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Understanding the pathogenesis of the urinary tract pathogen Proteus mirabilis |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Understanding the proteins responsible for our sense of touch |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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Understanding the role of peptide hormones in determining root architecture |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
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Unlocking yield gains with a new pathway targeting plant nitrogen usage |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Unravelling novel Rubisco structures in algae |
PhD |
|
Use of a tobacco Pathogenesis-related Protein-5 (PR-5) promoter: β glucuronidase (GUS) reporter system to study plant defence activation in response to phytohormones, abiotic stresses and biotic inducers. |
Honours, Master, PhD |
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Vitamin utilisation by malaria parasites |
Bachelor, Honours, PhD |
|
Vocal mimicry and display |
PhD |
|
What are novel mechanisms for regulating transcription, RNA turnover and protein translation |
Honours, PhD |
|
Wheat immunity and applied synthetic biology |
Bachelor, Honours, Master, PhD |
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