Projects

Learn about our projects.

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

Enhancing carotenoid levels in cereals by esterification

We have identified a carotenoid esterase and are looking to understand its function in plants and to manipulate it in 1-2 cereals species to enhance antioxidant and provitamin A levels.

Possible techniques: molecular genetics, biochemistry, developmental biology, GMOs and plant transformation

Our first manuscript on this project is in preparation

Browse projects

Group

Filter by group

Project	Group	Student intake
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	PhD
Evolvability	Bromham Group - Macroevolution and macroecology	Not open to students.
Evolving with sexually transmitted infections	Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex	Honours, PhD
Examining Rubisco - Rubisco activase interactions.	Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation	Not open to students.
Exploring the evolutionary protein landscape of Rubisco	Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation	PhD
Expression of modified tobacco and foreign Rubiscos in tobacco chloroplasts	Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation	Not open to students.
Factors affecting Perigord truffle production in Australia	Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi	Not open to students.
Factors impacting gene silencing efficacy in plants	Millar Group - RNA biology and post-transcriptional gene regulation in plants	Honours, Masters, PhD
Feeding and ecology of grapevine scales	Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation	PhD
Fiddler crabs: current projects	Backwell Group - Behavioural ecology of fiddler crabs	Masters, PhD
Fiddler crabs: sex, territoriality and beyond	Backwell Group - Behavioural ecology of fiddler crabs	Masters
Flavonoid functions in nitrogen-fixing symbioses	Mathesius Group - Root microbe interactions - symbionts to parasites	Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Food matters - Studying and disentangling the interconnection of monocultures, the microbiome and honey bee health	Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics	Not open to students.
Function of molecular chaperones in the export and display of parasite proteins	Maier Group - Molecular mechanisms of malaria pathogenesis	Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Functional characterisation of novel autotransporter proteins	Leyton Group - Assembly, function, and applications of nanoscale bacterial surface structures	Honours, Bachelor
Fungal bioinformatics	Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi	PhD
Fungal effector uptake into plant cells	Hardham Group - Plant pathogen interactions	Not open to students.
Genes, diet and environment	Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour	Honours, PhD
Genetics and evolution of variation in chemical defence against herbivores	Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions	Not open to students.
Genetics to improve production of essential oils from Australian trees	Foley Group - Animal-Plant interactions	Not open to students.
Genital evolution in insects	Head Group – Ecology and evolution of sex	Honours, PhD
Genome wide association mapping	Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption	Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Genotypic variation in Rubisco between diverse wheats	Evans Group - Physiology of photosynthesis; interactions with nitrogen	Not open to students.
Global patterns of biodiversity	Cardillo Group - Macroevolution, Macroecology and Biogeography	Honours, PhD
Habitat quality as a driver of fisheries productivity on macroalgal reefs	Fulton Group - Marine ecology and conservation	Not open to students.