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Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of Australian plants

Mediterranean-climate regions, such as Australia’s southwest, often have spectacular botanical diversity, despite poor soils and low rainfall, and the underlying causes are still not well understood.

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Decrypting chloroplast signalling networks in C4 photosynthesis at cell type-resolution
    		Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
    Delivery of virulence proteins by fungal rust pathogens
      		Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
      Designing new channel inhibitors for treating chronic pain
        		Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
        Developing molecular tools for functional analysis of microRNA-mediated gene silencing
          		Honours, Masters, PhD
          Development of a simple, inexpensive therapeutic cancer vaccine
            		Honours, PhD
            Development of the coral nervous system and its role in metamorphosis
              		Not open to students.
              Diseases of amino acid transport
                		Honours, PhD
                Disentangling climate and evolutionary controls over the temperature-dependence of leaf respiration
                  		Not open to students.
                  Distinguishing among patterns of extinction and speciation through geological and climatic change
                    		Not open to students.
                    Domestic applicants for PhDs in Ecology & Evolution
                      		PhD
                      Duetting and female song in Australian passerines
                        		Honours, Masters, PhD
                        Dynamic architecture of plant thylakoid membranes between light and dark
                          		Not open to students.
                          Ecological processes in evolutionary radiations
                            		Honours, PhD
                            Ecology of the Silky Hairstreak butterfly and its attendant ant, a potential indicator of old growth forest
                              		Honours
                              Ecology, genetics and physiology of animal-plant interactions
                                		Not open to students.
                                Ecophysiology of salinity and temperature tolerance in a changing world
                                  		Honours, PhD
                                  Effect of endocrine disruptors on reproduction in daphniids
                                    		Not open to students.
                                    Effector delivery by fungal rust pathogens
                                      		Bachelor, Honours, PhD
                                      Electron transport and ATP synthesis in chloroplasts
                                        		Honours
                                        Elucidating the role of plasmodesmata in wheat stripe rust fungal infection
                                          		Summer scholar, Honours
                                          Energy use and the plant canopy - measuring local respiration trends.
                                            		Bachelor
                                            Engineering microRNA pathways for broad-spectrum plant disease resistance.
                                              		Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
                                              Engineering the secretory pathways of yeast
                                                		Honours, Masters
                                                Enhancing carotenoid levels in cereals by esterification
                                                  		Honours, PhD
                                                  Entropy as a novel determinant of photosynthetic structure and function
                                                    		Not open to students.

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