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The role of amino acids in diabetes

Amino acids are important nutrients that regulate metabolism.

Membrane transporters and channels

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Project	Group	Student intake
Exploring Australia’s diversity for pathogens of weeds	Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity	Honours, Masters
Acacia evolution: why do some species evolve faster than others?	Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics	Bachelor, Honours, PhD
New methods in phylogenetics	Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics	Honours, Bachelor, PhD
Reading the history of mutations in individual plants	Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics	Honours, Masters, PhD
3D modelling of navigation environments	Zeil Group - Ecological neuroscience	Not open to students.
A changing climate and coastal marine ecosystem function	Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation	Masters, PhD
A molecular view of Australian biodiversity - exploring insect genomes for major shifts in functional genes	Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation	Masters, PhD
A synthetic biology approach to supercharging plant CO2 fixation	Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation	Honours, Bachelor, PhD
A unique non-human model for the evolution of musical tool use: drumming by the palm cockatoo	Langmore Group - Avian evolutionary and behavioural ecology	Not open to students.
Abiotic stress signalling, developmental programming and plant adaptation	Masle Group - Environmental sensing, systemic signalling and development: plant resilience to drought and changing climate	Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Above and below-ground specialization in Australian orchids	Peakall Group - Pollination, evolution and conservation	Not open to students.
Acoustic communication in birds	Magrath Group - Behavioural ecology; acoustic communication; ornithology	Honours, PhD
Adaptations of solid tumours to their environment	Callaghan Group - Human disease and membrane transport	Honours, Masters, PhD
Alarm signals and interspecific eavesdropping	Magrath Group - Behavioural ecology; acoustic communication; ornithology	Honours, PhD
Amazalert: raising the alert about critical feedbacks between climate and land use change in Amazonia	Meir Group - Tropical forest ecosystems	Not open to students.
Analysis of gene expression	Mathesius Group - Root microbe interactions - symbionts to parasites	Not open to students.
Anatomical coordination of water supply and demand	Farquhar Group - Coordination of CO2 fixation and transpiration in plants	Bachelor
Aquatic conservation ecology	Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation	Honours, Masters, PhD
Aquatic ecosystem ecology	Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation	Honours, Masters, PhD
Ascochyta blight of chickpea	Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi	Not open to students.
Australian native truffle diversity	Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi	Honours
Avian ecology and climate change	Gardner Group - Avian ecology and climate change	Not open to students.
Beating the heat? Population genomics of climate change in Australian birds	Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics	Not open to students.
Behaviour, morphology and ecology of fishes in extreme environments	Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation	Honours, Masters, PhD
Bioinformatic / Computational methods	Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes	Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD