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A synthetic biology approach to supercharging plant CO2 fixation

Projects are availble aimed at discovering fundamental issues relating to the biogenesis and catalytic function of the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco. The projects involve the development and use of syntheitc biology tools to manipulate Rubisco in chloroplasts, evolve (and adapt) the enzyme's kinetics in custom designed E.

Photosynthesis and plant energy biology

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Project	Group	Student intake
Exploring Australia’s diversity for pathogens of weeds	Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity	Honours, Masters
Structural basis of Resolvin mediated GPCR signalling	Brock Group - Membrane Structural & Synthetic Biology	Not open to students.
Acacia evolution: why do some species evolve faster than others?	Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics	Bachelor, Honours, PhD
ANU team for Australasian Synthetic Biology Challenge 2021	Brock Group - Membrane Structural & Synthetic Biology Pogson Group - Chloroplast to nuclear signalling: light, drought and carotenoids Rathjen Group - Plant immunity	Bachelor
New methods in phylogenetics	Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics	Honours, Bachelor, PhD
Reading the history of mutations in individual plants	Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics	Honours, Masters, PhD
3D modelling of navigation environments	Zeil Group - Ecological neuroscience	Not open to students.
A molecular view of Australian biodiversity - exploring insect genomes for major shifts in functional genes	Moritz Group - Evolutionary biogeography & conservation	Masters, PhD
A synthetic biology approach to supercharging plant CO2 fixation	Whitney Group - Synthetic Photosynthesis - bioengineering enzymes to adjust carbon fixation	Honours, Bachelor, PhD
A unique non-human model for the evolution of musical tool use: drumming by the palm cockatoo	Langmore Group - Avian evolutionary and behavioural ecology	Not open to students.
A yeast surface display nanobody factory	Brock Group - Membrane Structural & Synthetic Biology	Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Abiotic stress signalling, developmental programming and plant adaptation	Masle Group - Environmental sensing, systemic signalling and development: plant resilience to drought and changing climate	Honours, Bachelor, Masters, PhD
Above and below-ground specialization in Australian orchids	Peakall Group - Pollination, evolution and conservation	Not open to students.
Acoustic communication in birds	Magrath Group - Behavioural ecology; acoustic communication; ornithology	Honours, PhD
Adaptations of solid tumours to their environment	Callaghan Group - Human disease and membrane transport	Honours, Masters, PhD
Alarm signals and interspecific eavesdropping	Magrath Group - Behavioural ecology; acoustic communication; ornithology	Honours, PhD
Amazalert: raising the alert about critical feedbacks between climate and land use change in Amazonia	Meir Group - Tropical forest ecosystems	Not open to students.
ANU International applicants for PhDs in Biomedical Science and Biochemistry	Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development Altin Group - Tumour immunology and liposome targeting group Behm Group - Nematode molecular biology Brock Group - Membrane Structural & Synthetic Biology Broer Group - Membrane transport and nutrition Callaghan Group - Human disease and membrane transport Chung Group - Biophysics of ion channels Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics Fahrer Group - Immunology Howitt Group - Transporter structure and function Kirk Group - Membrane transport in parasites Lehane Group - Antimalarial drug action and resistance Leyton Group - Assembly, function, and applications of nanoscale bacterial surface structures Maier Group - Molecular mechanisms of malaria pathogenesis Maleszka Group - From molecules to behaviour Saliba Group - Physiology and biochemistry of the malaria parasite van Dooren Group - Cell biology and metabolism of apicomplexan parasites Verma Group - Bacterial and bacteriophage genetics, and vaccine development	PhD
Ascochyta blight of chickpea	Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi	Not open to students.
Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF, ARC LIEF project)	Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption Nicotra Group - Plant physiological ecology, plant evolutionary biology, reproductive ecology	Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Australian native truffle diversity	Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi	Honours
Beating the heat? Population genomics of climate change in Australian birds	Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics	Not open to students.
Bioinformatic / Computational methods	Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes	Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD
Bioinformatics and gene discovery in wheat rust pathogens	Rathjen Group - Plant immunity	Bachelor, Honours, PhD
Biological controls on soil respiration and its climatic response across a large tropical elevation gradient	Meir Group - Tropical forest ecosystems	Not open to students.