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Exploring Australia’s diversity for pathogens of weeds

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Plant-microbe interactions

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Project	Group	Student intake
Identification of molecular mechanisms of action and direct target genes of developmental signalling pathways in sponges	Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development	PhD
Identification of target genes of developmental transcription factors Brachyury, Gata and Caudal in sponges	Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development	PhD
Identifying general rules why species differ in their sensitivity to climate variability		Not open to students.
Impact of early thermal environments on thermal behaviour and physiology in lizards	Noble Group - Animal ecophysiology and evolutionary ecology	Honours
Improving C4 photosynthesis by genetic manipulation	Furbank Group – Improving photosynthesis and crop yield	Honours, PhD
Improving drought tolerance in wheat by selectively inhibiting negative regulators of drought stress signalling	Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids	Honours, PhD
Infection of plants by rust fungi	Hardham Group - Plant pathogen interactions	Not open to students.
Insect ecology, morphology or physiology	Cooper Group - Insect physiology, salt and water regulation	Honours, PhD
Insect vision & navigation	Zeil Group - Ecological neuroscience	Not open to students.
Integrative taxonomy of Australian monsoonal herpetofauna	Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation	Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Investigating adaptive genomic variation underlying drought tolerance in Eucalyptus	Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption	Bachelor
Investigating the genetic architecture of thermal acclimation of leaf energy metabolism using GWAS	Atkin Group - Plant respiration in a changing world Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption	Honours, Masters, PhD
Investigating the interactions between respiration and photosynthesis in leaf photosynthetic function	Badger Group - Photosynthetic functional genomics	Not open to students.
Ion homeostasis in the malaria parasite	Kirk Group - Membrane transport in parasites	Not open to students.
Kin selection and competition in cooperative breeders		Not open to students.
Laboratory overview	Rathjen Group - Plant immunity	Bachelor, Honours, PhD
Landscape genomics	Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption	Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Limiting factors and impacts of climate change for endangered Australian orchids	Peakall Group - Pollination, evolution and conservation	Not open to students.
Linking intracellular communication to whole-plant stress responses	Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids	Honours, PhD
Lipid flipping in vision: seeing is believing!	Callaghan Group - Human disease and membrane transport	Honours, Masters, PhD
Manipulating CO2 transport with aquaporins to improve photosynthesis	Evans Group - Physiology of photosynthesis; interactions with nitrogen	Honours
Maternal effects and phenotypic development in lizards	Noble Group - Animal ecophysiology and evolutionary ecology	Honours
Membrane transport proteins of the malaria parasite and their roles in conferring drug resistance		Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Metagenomics and the analysis of microbial genomes	Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes	Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Microbial control of root developmental plasticity	Mathesius Group - Root microbe interactions - symbionts to parasites Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology	Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD