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Engineering microRNA pathways for broad-spectrum plant disease resistance.

We have a series of projects that centre around a small regulatory microRNA called miR159 that confers endogenous gene silencing. MiR159 is ancient and highly conserved, being present in all land plants where it regulates the expression of a family of genes encoding GAMYB transcription factors.

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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
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
Agrochemical control of stress signalling pathways for enhanced stress tolerance	Chan Group - Plant Organelle and Cellular Signalling	Bachelor, 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.
BeePocalypse Now: How the arrival of parasitic bee mites will change Australia's ecosystem and agriculture	Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics	Honours, Masters, PhD
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