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Integrative taxonomy of Australian monsoonal herpetofauna

We propose to undertake detailed systematic studies of several herpetological taxa for which existing genetic data suggest a significant number of unrecognised species, especially in the monsoonal tropics. This study will confirm current taxonomic status and describe new species in the:

Phylogenetics, population genetics and biodiversity

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Project	Group	Student intake
C4 Rice Project	Furbank Group – Improving photosynthesis and crop yield von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves	Honours, PhD
Caenorhabditis elegans as a potential animal model to study host-pathogen interactions	Verma Group - Bacterial and bacteriophage genetics, and vaccine development	Honours, Masters, PhD
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	Bachelor
Cancer metabolism	Broer Group - Membrane transport and nutrition	Honours, Masters, PhD
Carotenoid derivatives as chloroplast signals	Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids	Honours, PhD
Cellular adaptations that allow the transmission and survival of Plasmodium falciparum when taken up by the mosquito	Maier Group - Molecular mechanisms of malaria pathogenesis	Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Characterising the Zymospetoria tritici - wheat interaction	Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity	Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Characterization of low and high CO2 sensitive Arabidopsis photosynthetic mutants	Badger Group - Photosynthetic functional genomics	Not open to students.
Characterization of low CO2 sensitive Arabidopsis photosynthetic mutants	Badger Group - Photosynthetic functional genomics	Honours, Bachelor, PhD
Characterizing the mRNA-protein “interactome” of plants	Millar Group - Plant RNA biology	Honours, Masters, PhD
Chemical mechanism of Rubisco catalysis	Tcherkez Group - Plant metabolic fluxes and interactions	Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Chromosomal evolution in the Social huntsman spider Delena cancerides	Rowell Group - Population genetics, karyology and phylogeography of terrestrial invertebrates	Honours, PhD
Chromosome condensation and T cell development	Fahrer Group - Immunology	Not open to students.
Climate change and carbon gain in Antarctic mosses	Ball (Marilyn) Group - Ecophysiology of salinity and freezing tolerance	Not open to students.
Climate change and ecosystem structure, function and composition	Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation	Not open to students.
Climate change and leaf-eating mammals	Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions	Not open to students.
Co-evolution between Australian cuckoos and their hosts	Langmore Group - Avian evolutionary and behavioural ecology	PhD
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	Not open to students.
CO2 diffusion inside leaves	von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves	Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Comparative genomics and development of corals	Ball (Eldon) Group - The molecular basis of coral biology	Not open to students.
Comparative, meta-analytic and empirical approaches to understanding the impacts of developmental environments on life-history evolution	Noble Group - Animal ecophysiology and evolutionary ecology	PhD
Comparison of Escherichia coli in birds and humans	Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms	Not open to students.
Conservation Genetics of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect	Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics	Not open to students.
Control of meristem differentiation and plant architecture in legumes	Djordjevic Group - Root architecture, root nodule formation, nitrogen fixation, regulatory peptides, plant development, Rhizobium	Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Coping with temperature extremes: morphological constraints on leaf function in a warmer, drier climate	Ball (Marilyn) Group - Ecophysiology of salinity and freezing tolerance	Not open to students.