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Disentangling climate and evolutionary controls over the temperature-dependence of leaf respiration

ARC Discovery grant, 2013-2016 (CI with Owen Atkin as lead investigator)

Plant environmental biology and functional ecology

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Project	Group	Student intake
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 - Plant RNA biology	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		Not open to students.
Have megajournals changed the way that science is done?	Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics	Honours, PhD
Honours projects are now available to study a wide range of topics in biosecurity and pathogenesis	Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity	Honours
HONOURS/MSC PROJECTS: Thermal tolerance and response to climate change in plants from extreme environments	Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology	Bachelor, Honours, Masters