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Novel small molecule regulators of animal development

Identification and characterisation of small plant-bioactive molecules that regulate mammalian development.

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Project	Group	Student intake
Effect of endocrine disruptors on reproduction in daphniids	Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation	Not open to students.
Effector delivery by fungal rust pathogens	Rathjen Group - Plant immunity	Bachelor, PhD, Honours
Effects of climate change on Australian bird species	Gardner Group - Avian ecology and climate change	Honours, PhD
Effects of climate change on Australian bird species	Gardner Group - Avian ecology and climate change Kruuk Group - Evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics	PhD, Honours
Effects of climate change on avian morphology	Gardner Group - Avian ecology and climate change	Honours, PhD
Electron transport and ATP synthesis in chloroplasts	von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves	Honours
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	Bachelor
Enhancing carotenoid levels in cereals by esterification	Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids	Honours, PhD
Entropy as a novel determinant of photosynthetic structure and function	Chow Group - Thylakoid structure and function	Not open to students.
Entropy, information theory and biodiversity		Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Environmental effects on photosynthesis of species with the C3-C4 intermediate photosynthetic pathway	von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves	Honours
Environmental physiology of locusts	Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation	Honours, PhD
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	Not open to students.
Epigenetic integration of genomic and environmental information in honey bees	Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour	Honours, Bachelor, PhD
Epigenetics of brain plasticity	Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour	Honours, Bachelor, PhD
Epigenomics of brain wiring and behaviour in honey bees	Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour	Honours, PhD
Erythrocyte membrane modifications during malaria infection	Maier Group - Molecular mechanisms of malaria pathogenesis	Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Escherichia albertii: an avian and human pathogen	Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms	Not open to students.
Evolution at extremes: Macroevolutionary responses to harsh environments	Bromham Group - Macroevolution and macroecology Cardillo Group - Macroevolution, Macroecology and Biogeography	Honours, PhD
Evolution of Australia's globally unique biodiversity hotspot	Crisp Group - Plant systematics and biogeography	PhD
Evolution of salt tolerance in plants	Bromham Group - Macroevolution and macroecology	Not open to students.
Evolution of scald and net form of net blotch	Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi	Honours, PhD
Evolution of Shigella	Gordon Group - Population biology of micro-organisms	Honours, PhD
Evolution of the Australian Onychophora	Rowell Group - Population genetics, karyology and phylogeography of terrestrial invertebrates	Honours, PhD
Evolutionary analysis of short read sequences	Rodrigo Group - Ecogenomics and bioinformatics	Masters, PhD