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Linking intracellular communication to whole-plant stress responses

This is a major area in our lab and connects to other projects as well. Projects range from chemical genetics screens for targeted manipulation of chloroplast signals, site-directed mutagenesis of key cellular signalling proteins through to unravelling the dynamics of RNA synthesis and decay (see below), guard cell signalling and protein-metabolite interactions.

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Project	Group	Student intake
Identification of 2000 novel protein isoforms in the human and mouse genomes		Bachelor, PhD
Identification of molecular mechanisms of action and direct target genes of developmental signalling pathways in sponges		PhD
Identification of target genes of developmental transcription factors Brachyury, Gata and Caudal in sponges		PhD
Impact of early thermal environments on thermal behaviour and physiology in lizards		Honours
Improving C4 photosynthesis by genetic manipulation		Honours, PhD
Improving drought tolerance in wheat by selectively inhibiting negative regulators of drought stress signalling		Honours, PhD
Infection of plants by rust fungi		Not open to students.
Insect ecology, morphology or physiology		Honours, PhD
Insect vision & navigation		Not open to students.
Integrative taxonomy of Australian monsoonal herpetofauna		Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Investigating the genetic architecture of thermal acclimation of leaf energy metabolism using GWAS		Honours, Masters, PhD
Investigating the interactions between respiration and photosynthesis in leaf photosynthetic function		Not open to students.
Ion homeostasis in the malaria parasite		Not open to students.
Kin selection and competition in cooperative breeders		Not open to students.
Laboratory overview		Bachelor, Honours, PhD
Landscape genomics		Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Limiting factors and impacts of climate change for endangered Australian orchids		Not open to students.
Linking intracellular communication to whole-plant stress responses		Honours, PhD
Manipulating CO2 transport with aquaporins to improve photosynthesis		Honours
Mapping the genetic mechanism of plasmodesmata formation and regulation to improve crops		Summer scholar, Honours, Masters, PhD
Maternal effects and phenotypic development in lizards		Honours
Membrane transport proteins of the malaria parasite and their roles in conferring drug resistance		Not open to students.
Metagenomics and the analysis of microbial genomes		Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Microbial control of root developmental plasticity		Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
MicroRNA target recognition; the role of the target RNA secondary structure.		Honours, Masters, PhD