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Acacia evolution: why do some species evolve faster than others? |
Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics |
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New methods in phylogenetics |
Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics |
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Reading the history of mutations in individual plants |
Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics |
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**PhD** Testing environmental causes of population decline in an Australian song-bird |
Kruuk Group - Evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics |
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1. Shigella virulence and vaccine development |
Verma Group - Bacterial and bacteriophage genetics, and vaccine development |
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2. Serotype-converting bacteriophages and O-antigen modification in Shigella flexneri |
Verma Group - Bacterial and bacteriophage genetics, and vaccine development |
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3. Caenorhabditis elegans as a potential animal model to study host-pathogen interactions |
Verma Group - Bacterial and bacteriophage genetics, and vaccine development |
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3D modelling of navigation environments |
Zeil Group - Ecological neuroscience |
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A changing climate and coastal marine ecosystem function |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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A molecular view of Australian biodiversity - exploring insect genomes for major shifts in functional genes |
Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation |
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A synthetic biology approach to supercharging plant CO2 fixation |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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A unique non-human model for the evolution of musical tool use: drumming by the palm cockatoo |
Langmore Group - Avian evolutionary and behavioural ecology |
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Abiotic stress signalling, developmental programming and plant adaptation |
Masle Group - Environmental sensing, systemic signalling and development: plant resilience to drought and changing climate |
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Above and below-ground specialization in Australian orchids |
Peakall Group - Pollination, evolution and conservation |
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Acoustic communication in birds |
Magrath Group - Behavioural ecology; acoustic communication; ornithology |
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Adaptations of solid tumours to their environment |
Callaghan Group - Human disease and membrane transport |
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Alarm signals and interspecific eavesdropping |
Magrath Group - Behavioural ecology; acoustic communication; ornithology |
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Amazalert: raising the alert about critical feedbacks between climate and land use change in Amazonia |
Meir Group - Tropical forest ecosystems |
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Analysis of gene expression |
Mathesius Group - Root microbe interactions - symbionts to parasites |
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Analysis of population dynamics using bioacoustic monitoring |
Rodrigo Group - Ecogenomics and bioinformatics |
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Anatomical coordination of water supply and demand |
Farquhar Group - Coordination of CO2 fixation and transpiration in plants |
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Apicoplast and mitochondrial metabolism in apicomplexan parasites |
van Dooren Group - Cell biology and metabolism of apicomplexan parasites |
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Aquatic conservation ecology |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Aquatic ecosystem ecology |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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ARC Future Fellowship - impacts of climate change on plant respiration |
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Ascochyta blight of chickpea |
Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi |
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Australian alpine seed and seedling ecology |
Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology |
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Australian native truffle diversity |
Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi |
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Avian ecology and climate change |
Gardner Group - Avian ecology and climate change |
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Beating the heat? Population genomics of climate change in Australian birds |
Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics |
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Behaviour, morphology and ecology of fishes in extreme environments |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Bioinformatic / Computational methods |
Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes |
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Bioinformatics and gene discovery in wheat rust pathogens |
Rathjen Group - Plant immunity |
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Bioinformatics Summer Scholarship projects |
Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity |
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Biological adaptation under natural and anthropogenic conditions |
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Biological controls on soil respiration and its climatic response across a large tropical elevation gradient |
Meir Group - Tropical forest ecosystems |
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Biologically inspired membranes for the efficient desalination of water |
Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics |
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Can cooperative species better handle environmental variability? |
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Can inbreeding avoidance cause the evolution of sex-biased dispersal? (ARC Discovery Grant) |
Cockburn Group - Evolutionary ecology |
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Can plants adapt their CO2-fixation capacity in response to climate change? |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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Can seedling screens of energy use efficiency in wheat transfer to yield in the field? |
Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption, Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids, Atkin Group - Plant respiration in a changing world |
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Cancer metabolism |
Broer Group - Membrane transport and nutrition |
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Carbon and water cycling in tropical rainforest |
Meir Group - Tropical forest ecosystems |
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Carotenoid derivatives as chloroplast signals |
Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids |
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Carry-over effects of climate on Australian Birds |
Gardner Group - Avian ecology and climate change |
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Cell biology and metabolism of apicomplexan parasites |
van Dooren Group - Cell biology and metabolism of apicomplexan parasites |
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Cell specific activation of plant hormones |
Mathesius Group - Root microbe interactions - symbionts to parasites |
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Cellular adaptations that allow the transmission and survival of Plasmodium falciparum when taken up by the mosquito |
Maier Group - Molecular mechanisms of malaria pathogenesis |
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Characterising the Zymospetoria tritici - wheat interaction |
Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity |
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Characterization of low and high CO2 sensitive Arabidopsis photosynthetic mutants |
Badger Group - Photosynthetic functional genomics |
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Characterization of low CO2 sensitive Arabidopsis photosynthetic mutants |
Badger Group - Photosynthetic functional genomics |
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Characterizing the mRNA-protein “interactome” of plants |
Millar Group - RNA biology and post-transcriptional gene regulation in plants |
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Chemical mechanism of Rubisco catalysis |
Tcherkez Group - Plant metabolic fluxes and interactions |
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Chromosomal evolution in the Social huntsman spider Delena cancerides |
Rowell Group - Population genetics, karyology and phylogeography of terrestrial invertebrates |
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Chromosome condensation and T cell development |
Fahrer Group - Immunology |
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Climate change and carbon gain in Antarctic mosses |
Ball (Marilyn) Group - Ecophysiology of salinity and freezing tolerance |
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Climate change and ecosystem structure, function and composition |
Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation |
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Climate change and leaf-eating mammals |
Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions |
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Co-evolution between Australian cuckoos and their hosts |
Langmore Group - Avian evolutionary and behavioural ecology |
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CO2 acquisition by cyanobacteria and plants, and impact of climate change |
Price Group - The cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism and the use of synthetic biology to transfer it to C3 crop plants |
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CO2 diffusion inside leaves |
von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves |
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Comparative genomics and development of corals |
Ball (Eldon) Group - The molecular basis of coral biology |
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Comparative, meta-analytic and empirical approaches to understanding the impacts of developmental environments on life-history evolution |
Noble Group - Animal ecophysiology and evolutionary ecology |
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Comparison of Escherichia coli in birds and humans |
Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms |
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Computational models of nerve conduction |
Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics |
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Conservation Genetics of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect |
Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics |
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Control of meristem differentiation and plant architecture in legumes |
Djordjevic Group - Root architecture, root nodule formation, nitrogen fixation, regulatory peptides, plant development, Rhizobium |
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Coping with temperature extremes: morphological constraints on leaf function in a warmer, drier climate |
Ball (Marilyn) Group - Ecophysiology of salinity and freezing tolerance |
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Coral development and comparative genomics |
Ball (Eldon) Group - The molecular basis of coral biology |
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Coral regeneration |
Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development |
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Design and evaluation of novel antimalarial drugs |
Martin Group - Membrane transport proteins of the malaria parasite |
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Designing new channel inhibitors for treating chronic pain |
Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics |
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Detection of fungal pathogens and their associated microbiome |
Schwessinger Group - Plants, fungi, evolution |
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Developing molecular tools for functional analysis of microRNA-mediated gene silencing |
Millar Group - RNA biology and post-transcriptional gene regulation in plants |
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Development of a simple, inexpensive therapeutic cancer vaccine |
Fahrer Group - Immunology |
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Development of the coral nervous system and its role in metamorphosis |
Ball (Eldon) Group - The molecular basis of coral biology |
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Diseases of amino acid transport |
Broer Group - Membrane transport and nutrition |
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Disentangling climate and evolutionary controls over the temperature-dependence of leaf respiration |
Meir Group - Tropical forest ecosystems |
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Dissecting Rubisco catalysis in C3 and C4 plants |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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Dissecting the defence responses activated by tomato receptors able to detect Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici infection |
Jones Group - Disease resistance |
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Distinguishing among patterns of extinction and speciation through geological and climatic change |
Crisp Group - Plant systematics and biogeography |
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Distribution of novel Escherichia species |
Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms |
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Diversity of Escherichia coli along the intestinal tract |
Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms |
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Do multidrug transporters play a role in Alzheimer’s Disease? |
Callaghan Group - Human disease and membrane transport |
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Drug resistance in the human malaria parasite |
Martin Group - Membrane transport proteins of the malaria parasite |
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Duetting and female song in Australian passerines |
Langmore Group - Avian evolutionary and behavioural ecology |
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Dynamic architecture of plant thylakoid membranes between light and dark |
Chow Group - Thylakoid structure and function |
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E. coli within and among host dynamics in poultry |
Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms |
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Ecological processes in evolutionary radiations |
Cardillo Group - Macroevolution, Macroecology and Biogeography |
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Ecological, social and food-security dimensions of Timor-Leste fisheries |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Ecology and evolution of coral- and seaweed-associated tropical reef fishes |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Ecology of the Silky Hairstreak butterfly and its attendant ant, a potential indicator of old growth forest |
Rowell Group - Population genetics, karyology and phylogeography of terrestrial invertebrates |
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Ecology, genetics and physiology of animal-plant interactions |
Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions |
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Ecophysiology of salinity and temperature tolerance in a changing world |
Ball (Marilyn) Group - Ecophysiology of salinity and freezing tolerance |
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Effect of endocrine disruptors on reproduction in daphniids |
Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation |
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Effector delivery by fungal rust pathogens |
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Effects of climate change on Australian bird species |
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Effects of climate change on Australian bird species |
Gardner Group - Avian ecology and climate change |
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Effects of climate change on avian morphology |
Gardner Group - Avian ecology and climate change |
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Effects of parental and grandparental age on offspring performance |
Kruuk Group - Evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics, Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex |
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Electron transport and ATP synthesis in chloroplasts |
von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves |
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Energy use and the plant canopy - measuring local respiration trends. |
Atkin Group - Plant respiration in a changing world, Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption, Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids |
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Enhancing carotenoid levels in cereals by esterification |
Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids |
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Entropy as a novel determinant of photosynthetic structure and function |
Chow Group - Thylakoid structure and function |
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Entropy, information theory and biodiversity |
Dewar Group - Entropy in biological and physical systems |
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Environmental drivers of fish energy budgets |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Environmental drivers of growth and mortality in larval fishes |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Environmental effects on photosynthesis of species with the C3-C4 intermediate photosynthetic pathway |
von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves |
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Environmental physiology of locusts |
Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation |
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Environmental risk assessment of genetically modified Alfalfa mosaic virus resistant white clover (Trifolium repens L.) |
Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi |
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Epigenetic integration of genomic and environmental information in honey bees |
Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour |
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Epigenetics of brain plasticity |
Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour |
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Epigenomics of brain wiring and behaviour in honey bees |
Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour |
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Erythrocyte membrane modifications during malaria infection |
Maier Group - Molecular mechanisms of malaria pathogenesis |
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Escherichia albertii: an avian and human pathogen |
Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms |
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Evolution at extremes: Macroevolutionary responses to harsh environments |
Bromham Group - Macroevolution and macroecology, Cardillo Group - Macroevolution, Macroecology and Biogeography |
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Evolution of Australia's globally unique biodiversity hotspot |
Crisp Group - Plant systematics and biogeography |
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Evolution of salt tolerance in plants |
Bromham Group - Macroevolution and macroecology |
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Evolution of scald and net form of net blotch |
Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi |
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Evolution of Shigella |
Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms |
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Evolution of the Australian Onychophora |
Rowell Group - Population genetics, karyology and phylogeography of terrestrial invertebrates |
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Evolutionary analysis of short read sequences |
Rodrigo Group - Ecogenomics and bioinformatics |
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Evolutionary biology of Australian reptiles and amphibians |
Keogh Group - Evolutionary biology & ecology of reptiles and amphibians |
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Evolutionary significance of early developmental environments: Interaction between maternal effects and offspring thermal environment on phenotypic development and fitness |
Noble Group - Animal ecophysiology and evolutionary ecology |
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Evolvability |
Bromham Group - Macroevolution and macroecology |
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Evolving with sexually transmitted infections |
Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex |
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Examining Rubisco - Rubisco activase interactions. |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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Exploring the evolutionary protein landscape of Rubisco |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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Expression of modified tobacco and foreign Rubiscos in tobacco chloroplasts |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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Factors affecting Perigord truffle production in Australia |
Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi |
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Factors impacting gene silencing efficacy in plants |
Millar Group - RNA biology and post-transcriptional gene regulation in plants |
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Feeding and ecology of grapevine scales |
Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation |
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Fiddler crabs: current projects |
Backwell Group - Behavioural ecology of fiddler crabs |
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Fiddler crabs: sex, territoriality and beyond |
Backwell Group - Behavioural ecology of fiddler crabs |
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Flavonoid functions in nitrogen-fixing symbioses |
Mathesius Group - Root microbe interactions - symbionts to parasites |
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Food matters - Studying and disentangling the interconnection of monocultures, the microbiome and honey bee health |
Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics |
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Function of molecular chaperones in the export and display of parasite proteins |
Maier Group - Molecular mechanisms of malaria pathogenesis |
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Functional characterisation of novel autotransporter proteins |
Leyton Group - Assembly, function, and applications of nanoscale bacterial surface structures |
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Functional characterisation of the flax rust fungus AvrP and AvrL2 effector proteins |
Jones Group - Disease resistance |
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Fungal bioinformatics |
Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi |
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Fungal effector uptake into plant cells |
Hardham Group - Plant pathogen interactions |
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Fungal genomics, evolution, and host adaptation |
Schwessinger Group - Plants, fungi, evolution |
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Genes, diet and environment |
Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour |
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Genetics and evolution of variation in chemical defence against herbivores |
Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions |
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Genetics to improve production of essential oils from Australian trees |
Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions |
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Genital evolution in insects |
Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex |
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Genome wide association mapping |
Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption |
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Genotypic variation in Rubisco between diverse wheats |
Evans Group - Physiology of photosynthesis; interactions with nitrogen |
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Global patterns of biodiversity |
Cardillo Group - Macroevolution, Macroecology and Biogeography |
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Habitat quality as a driver of fisheries productivity on macroalgal reefs |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
|
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Have megajournals changed the way that science is done? |
Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics |
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Honours and PhD student research in plant ecology and ecophysiology |
Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology |
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Honours projects are now available to study a wide range of topics in biosecurity and pathogenesis |
Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity |
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Host social structure and the clonal composition of bacterial populations |
Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms |
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How do animals learn about poisonous plants? |
Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions |
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How do biological molecules distinguish between ions? |
Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics |
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How do climate-related changes in tidal patterns affect the foraging time and breeding behaviour of shorebirds? |
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How do effector proteins from necrotrophic fungi cause disease in plants |
Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity |
|
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How do effectors from plant pathogens cause disease - a structural biology apporach |
Williams Group - Plant structural immunology |
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How do growth and developmental temperature affect plant thermal tolerance? (*Honours 2020*) |
Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology, Kruuk Group - Evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics |
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How do RNA binding proteins find the right partner? |
Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics |
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How do warming temperatures affect plant fitness? ** Midyear 2019 honours |
Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology, Kruuk Group - Evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics |
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How does P-glycoprotein confer resistance to so many anti-cancer drugs? |
Callaghan Group - Human disease and membrane transport |
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How does parental environment affect dormancy status, germination strategy and early seedling growth characteristics? (*Honours S2 2019 or 2020) |
Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology, Kruuk Group - Evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics |
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How does pfCRT confer drug resistance to malaria? |
Callaghan Group - Human disease and membrane transport |
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Identification and characterisation of membrane transport proteins |
Martin Group - Membrane transport proteins of the malaria parasite |
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Identification and functional characterisation of flax rust effectors |
Jones Group - Disease resistance |
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Identification and functional characterisation of the Fusarium oxysporum Avr7 effector gene. |
Jones Group - Disease resistance |
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Identification of 2000 novel protein isoforms in the human and mouse genomes |
Fahrer Group - Immunology |
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Identification of molecular mechanisms of action and direct target genes of developmental signalling pathways in sponges |
Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development |
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Identification of signal transduction and accessory protein requirements for resistance responses mediated by the tomato I gene for Fusarium wilt resistance. |
Jones Group - Disease resistance |
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Identification of target genes of developmental transcription factors Brachyury, Gata and Caudal in sponges |
Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development |
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Identifying general rules why species differ in their sensitivity to climate variability |
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Impact of early thermal environments on thermal behaviour and physiology in lizards |
Noble Group - Animal ecophysiology and evolutionary ecology |
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Implications of habitat patch dynamics for reef fish diversity |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Improving C4 photosynthesis by genetic manipulation |
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Improving drought tolerance in wheat by selectively inhibiting negative regulators of drought stress signalling |
Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids |
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Improving nitrogen use efficiency in cereals |
Atkin Group - Plant respiration in a changing world |
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Infection of plants by rust fungi |
Hardham Group - Plant pathogen interactions |
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Insect ecology, morphology or physiology |
Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation |
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Insect vision & navigation |
Zeil Group - Ecological neuroscience |
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Integrative taxonomy of Australian monsoonal herpetofauna |
Keogh Group - Evolutionary biology & ecology of reptiles and amphibians, Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation |
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Investigating the genetic architecture of thermal acclimation of leaf energy metabolism using GWAS |
Atkin Group - Plant respiration in a changing world, Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption |
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Investigating the interactions between respiration and photosynthesis in leaf photosynthetic function |
Badger Group - Photosynthetic functional genomics |
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Ion homeostasis in the malaria parasite |
Kirk Group - Membrane transport in parasites |
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Isotope effects and natural isotope abundance |
Tcherkez Group - Plant metabolic fluxes and interactions |
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Johne's and Crohn's disease: The role of Mycobacterium avium |
Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms |
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Kin selection and competition in cooperative breeders |
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Laboratory overview |
Rathjen Group - Plant immunity |
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|
Landscape genomics |
Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption |
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|
Leaf respiration under drought |
Atkin Group - Plant respiration in a changing world |
|
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Limiting factors and impacts of climate change for endangered Australian orchids |
Peakall Group - Pollination, evolution and conservation |
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Linking intracellular communication to whole-plant stress responses |
Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids |
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Lipid flipping in vision: seeing is believing! |
Callaghan Group - Human disease and membrane transport |
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Manipulating CO2 transport with aquaporins to improve photosynthesis |
Evans Group - Physiology of photosynthesis; interactions with nitrogen |
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Maternal effects and phenotypic development in lizards |
Noble Group - Animal ecophysiology and evolutionary ecology |
|
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Membrane transport proteins of the malaria parasite and their roles in conferring drug resistance |
Martin Group - Membrane transport proteins of the malaria parasite |
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Metagenomics and the analysis of microbial genomes |
Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes |
|
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Microbial control of root developmental plasticity |
Mathesius Group - Root microbe interactions - symbionts to parasites, Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology |
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MicroRNA target recognition; the role of the target RNA secondary structure. |
Millar Group - RNA biology and post-transcriptional gene regulation in plants |
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Molecular biofuels |
Price Group - The cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism and the use of synthetic biology to transfer it to C3 crop plants |
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Molecular evolution and Phylogenetics |
Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes |
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Molecular tools to reveal protein function and identify drug targets |
Maier Group - Molecular mechanisms of malaria pathogenesis |
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|
Multi-trait plasticity: understanding temperature response of alpine plants in a warming world |
Kruuk Group - Evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics, Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology |
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New antibiotics that target membrane channels |
Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics |
|
|
New approaches to discovering biodiversity and understanding its response to climate change |
Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation |
|
|
New control methods for plant-parasitic nematodes |
Behm Group - Nematode molecular biology, Mathesius Group - Root microbe interactions - symbionts to parasites |
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New molecular targets for drugs to treat human and animal nematode parasites |
Behm Group - Nematode molecular biology |
|
|
non-coding RNA and micro RNA genes in plants |
Mathesius Group - Root microbe interactions - symbionts to parasites |
|
|
Novel metabolite discovery and characterisation |
Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity |
|
|
Novel nutrient/metabolite transporters in apicomplexan parasites |
Kirk Group - Membrane transport in parasites, van Dooren Group - Cell biology and metabolism of apicomplexan parasites |
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|
Novel small molecule regulators of animal development |
Djordjevic Group - Root architecture, root nodule formation, nitrogen fixation, regulatory peptides, plant development, Rhizobium |
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Nutrition of free-ranging primates |
Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions |
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Olfactory pattern recognition in nematodes |
Behm Group - Nematode molecular biology |
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Optimising energy use efficiency to increase wheat yield |
Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids |
|
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Organic components of the coral skeleton |
Ball (Eldon) Group - The molecular basis of coral biology |
|
|
Out of the darkness: predicting rates of respiration of illuminated leaves along nutrient gradients |
Atkin Group - Plant respiration in a changing world |
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|
Overcoming limitations in engineering the Rubisco small subunits in higher plant chloroplasts. |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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Parent-offspring communication under the risk of predation |
Magrath Group - Behavioural ecology; acoustic communication; ornithology |
|
|
Pathways of photosynthetic electron flow under environmental stress |
Chow Group - Thylakoid structure and function |
|
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Patterns and correlates of extinction risk |
Cardillo Group - Macroevolution, Macroecology and Biogeography |
|
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Peripheral isolates as hotbeds of adaptive diversity |
Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation |
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|
Pest resistance and sustainable plantation management of eucalypts |
Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions |
|
|
PhD projects are now available to study a wide range of topics in biosecurity and pathogenesis |
Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity |
|
|
Phenotypic plasticity of an alpine plant in response to temperature (** POSTDOC and PHD POSITIONS AVAILABLE **) |
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Photoprotection and photoinactivation of Photosystem II |
Chow Group - Thylakoid structure and function |
|
|
Photoprotective functions of xanthophyll pigments in avocado |
Chow Group - Thylakoid structure and function |
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Photosynthesis, food security and global change |
Evans Group - Physiology of photosynthesis; interactions with nitrogen |
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Phylogenetics of Eucalypt beetles |
Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex |
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Phylogenetics of microbiome |
Rodrigo Group - Ecogenomics and bioinformatics |
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Phylogenomic assessment of conservation priorities in two biodiversity hotspots: The Pilbara and Kimberley |
Keogh Group - Evolutionary biology & ecology of reptiles and amphibians, Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation |
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Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of Australian plants |
Bromham Group - Macroevolution and macroecology, Cardillo Group - Macroevolution, Macroecology and Biogeography |
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Phylogeographic estimation of dispersal kernel |
Rodrigo Group - Ecogenomics and bioinformatics |
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Physics of pan evaporation |
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Physiological and molecular regulation of stomatal movement |
von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves |
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Phytophthora cell wall degrading enzymes |
Hardham Group - Plant pathogen interactions |
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Phytophthora pathogenicity |
Hardham Group - Plant pathogen interactions |
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Phytophthora zoospore adhesion |
Hardham Group - Plant pathogen interactions |
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Phytophthora zoospore motility |
Hardham Group - Plant pathogen interactions |
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Plant optimisation modelling |
Dewar Group - Entropy in biological and physical systems |
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Plasmodium falciparum lipid metabolism as a target for malaria intervention strategies |
Maier Group - Molecular mechanisms of malaria pathogenesis |
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Population structure of the New Zealand green-lipped mussel |
Rodrigo Group - Ecogenomics and bioinformatics |
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Processes of community assembly |
Bromham Group - Macroevolution and macroecology |
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Productivity of tropical macroalgal reefs in a changing climate |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Projects in science education |
Howitt Group - Transporter structure and function |
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Protein function in plant immunity |
Rathjen Group - Plant immunity |
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Quantitative genetics of fitness in wild populations |
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Quorum sensing signalling in root symbioses |
Mathesius Group - Root microbe interactions - symbionts to parasites |
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Rates of molecular evolution in parasites |
Bromham Group - Macroevolution and macroecology |
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Redefining metabolic schemes in plant respiration |
Tcherkez Group - Plant metabolic fluxes and interactions |
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Redesign and engineering of the autotransporter β-barrel domain |
Leyton Group - Assembly, function, and applications of nanoscale bacterial surface structures |
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Reference-guided coral genome assembly |
Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics |
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Regulation of cricket salivary glands |
Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation |
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Regulation of rat reproduction in rice fields of south east Asia |
Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation |
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Responding to extreme climatic events |
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Role of poisonous plants in the foraging ecology of marsupials |
Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions |
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Rust resistance in Australian Myrtaceae |
Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions |
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Salinity tolerance along an aridity gradient: linking physiological processes with morphological constraints on leaf function in mangroves |
Ball (Marilyn) Group - Ecophysiology of salinity and freezing tolerance |
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Scrutinizing the influence of temperature on Rubisco catalysis |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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Sediment-macroalgae community dynamics on tropical reefs |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Sexual selection and colour signals |
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Sexual selection and the evolution of sex roles |
Jennions Group - Behavioural and reproductive ecology |
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Sexual selection in changing in environments |
Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex |
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Sexual selection in the field cricket Teleogryllus commodus |
Jennions Group - Behavioural and reproductive ecology |
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Skeleton formation in soft corals and calcareous sponges |
Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development |
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Snowmelt timing and summer drought in the alpine zone: what strategies do alpine plants use to cope? |
Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology |
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Speciation in co-evolved taxa: sexually-deceptive orchids and their mycorrhizal symbionts |
Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi |
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Species discovery and refugia in the monsoonal tropics |
Keogh Group - Evolutionary biology & ecology of reptiles and amphibians, Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation |
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Sponge and coral microbiomes |
Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development , Rodrigo Group - Ecogenomics and bioinformatics |
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Statistical methods of sequence divergence |
Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes |
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Structural basis of drug resistance in the Malaria parasite |
Brock Group - Membrane structural biology, biochemistry and biophysics |
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Structural basis of Resolvin mediated GPCR signalling |
Brock Group - Membrane structural biology, biochemistry and biophysics |
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Student opportunites in the phenomic analysis of CO2 acquisition by cyanobacteria |
Price Group - The cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism and the use of synthetic biology to transfer it to C3 crop plants |
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Student opportunities in molecular analysis of CO2 acquisition by cyanobacteria |
Price Group - The cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism and the use of synthetic biology to transfer it to C3 crop plants |
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Student projects - additional topics for the future |
Atkin Group - Plant respiration in a changing world |
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Student projects in thylakoid function and structure |
Chow Group - Thylakoid structure and function |
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Student research projects in CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves |
von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves |
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Student research projects in tumour immunology and liposome targeting |
Altin Group - Tumour immunology and liposome targeting group |
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Studies on the biochemical regulation of C3 and C4 photosynthesis |
von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves |
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Studying pathogen proteins that cause disease |
Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity |
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Synthetic nanotubes to mimic biological ion channels |
Chung Group - Biophysics of ion channels |
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Targeting ion transport in apicomplexan parasites with new generation antimalarials |
Kirk Group - Membrane transport in parasites, van Dooren Group - Cell biology and metabolism of apicomplexan parasites, Lehane Group - Antimalarial drug action and resistance |
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The bioinformatic methods of epigenomic data analysis |
Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour |
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The biology of the apicoplast and mitochondrion in apicomplexan parasites |
van Dooren Group - Cell biology and metabolism of apicomplexan parasites |
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The causes and consequences of dispersal in seed beetles |
Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex |
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The causes and effects of mortality in tropical Australian trees |
Meir Group - Tropical forest ecosystems |
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The chemical, biochemical, genetic and ecological basis of pollinator-driven speciation in Australian orchids |
Peakall Group - Pollination, evolution and conservation |
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The colon environment as a determinant of E. coli diversity |
Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms |
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The directed evolution of RuBisCO |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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The ecology and evolution of aposematism |
Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex |
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The evolution and functional sigificance of leaf shape |
Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology |
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The evolution of cooperative behaviour in Rabbit fish |
Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex |
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The evolution of genital size in mosquitofish |
Jennions Group - Behavioural and reproductive ecology |
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The evolution of mouth markings in estrildid finches |
Langmore Group - Avian evolutionary and behavioural ecology |
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The evolution of song in female birds |
Langmore Group - Avian evolutionary and behavioural ecology |
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The impact of climate change on inter-specific interactions |
Langmore Group - Avian evolutionary and behavioural ecology |
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The impact of DNA sequence variants on epigenetic processes and their capacity to respond to contrasting environmental inputs |
Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour |
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The impact of transposon variation on the evolvability of grasses |
Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption, Furbank Group – Improving photosynthesis and crop yield |
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The role of amino acids in diabetes |
Broer Group - Membrane transport and nutrition |
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The role of hormones in parental care |
Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex |
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The role of N-terminal post-translational modifications of the tobacco Rubisco large subunit |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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The role of phospholipid flippases in the immune system |
Broer Group - Membrane transport and nutrition |
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The role of RNA binding proteins in post-transcriptional gene regulation and plant biology. |
Millar Group - RNA biology and post-transcriptional gene regulation in plants |
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The transport game – modelling the physiology of cells |
Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics |
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The unique cell biology of Toxoplasma gondii |
van Dooren Group - Cell biology and metabolism of apicomplexan parasites |
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The Williams Plant Structural Immunology Group - Student Projects |
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Theory and application of Maximum Entropy Production |
Dewar Group - Entropy in biological and physical systems |
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Thermal acclimation, metabolism and thermal physiology in lizards |
Noble Group - Animal ecophysiology and evolutionary ecology |
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To what degree does autotransporter folding inside the bacterial cell resemble autotransporter folding in bulk solution? |
Leyton Group - Assembly, function, and applications of nanoscale bacterial surface structures |
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Transcriptome and genome sequencing of the coral, Acropora millepora |
Ball (Eldon) Group - The molecular basis of coral biology |
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TREASURE (Teaching Research: Evaluating Assessment Strategies for Undergraduate Research Projects) |
Howitt Group - Transporter structure and function |
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Tree water use, bushfires, and the implications for urban and rural water supplies |
Farquhar Group - Coordination of CO2 fixation and transpiration in plants |
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Trophic ecology of tropical riverine and coastal sharks |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Uncovering the hare microbiome |
Rathjen Group - Plant immunity, Rodrigo Group - Ecogenomics and bioinformatics, Schwessinger Group - Plants, fungi, evolution |
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Understanding chloroplast/nuclear signaling and response pathways which determine photosynthetic capacity |
Badger Group - Photosynthetic functional genomics |
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Understanding how drought affects the risk of increased mortality in tropical rain forests |
Meir Group - Tropical forest ecosystems |
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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 |
Meir Group - Tropical forest ecosystems |
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Understanding the cellular and genetic basis of differences in photosynthetic leaf capacity between Arabidopsis and a close mustard relative Hirschfeldia incana |
Badger Group - Photosynthetic functional genomics |
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Understanding the proteins responsible for our sense of touch |
Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics |
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Understanding the role of peptide hormones in determining root architecture |
Djordjevic Group - Root architecture, root nodule formation, nitrogen fixation, regulatory peptides, plant development, Rhizobium |
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Unravelling novel Rubisco structures in algae |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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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. |
Jones Group - Disease resistance |
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Using approximate Bayesian computation to infer ancestral population size of pre-Columbian North American human populations |
Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics |
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Using macroinvertebrates to determine water quality in the Mulloon Creek catchment |
Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation |
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Visual ecology and colour signals |
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Visual tools for underwater observation of aquatic species |
Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation |
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Vitamin utilisation by malaria parasites |
Saliba Group - Physiology and biochemistry of the malaria parasite |
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Vocal mimicry and display |
Magrath Group - Behavioural ecology; acoustic communication; ornithology |
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What are novel mechanisms for regulating transcription, RNA turnover and protein translation |
Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids |
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Wheat immunity and applied synthetic biology |
Rathjen Group - Plant immunity |
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Where physics and maths meet biology |
Dewar Group - Entropy in biological and physical systems |
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Why are biodiversity hotspots found where they are? |
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Why is Rubisco from red algae better at CO2-fixation than Rubisco from crop plants? |
Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation |
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Wolbachia infection of honey bee parasites |
Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics |
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