Bioinformatics and bio-mathematical modelling

Using mathematical approaches to biological problems underpins many research approaches to understand how plants operate. This approach applies to many aspects of plant biology, ranging from understanding genetic information content, function of molecular & cellular processes, plant-environment interactions and global climate change models.

Project Groups
New methods in phylogenetics Lanfear Group - Mutation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics
Bioinformatic / Computational methods Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes
Bioinformatics and gene discovery in wheat rust pathogens Rathjen Group - Plant immunity
Biologically inspired membranes for the efficient desalination of water Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics
C4 Rice Project
  • Furbank Group – Improving photosynthesis and crop yield
  • von Caemmerer Group - CO2 fixation and water loss of leaves
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    Can cooperative species better handle environmental variability?
    Characterising the Zymospetoria tritici - wheat interaction Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity
    Computational models of nerve conduction Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics
    Coral regeneration Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development
    Designing new channel inhibitors for treating chronic pain Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics
    Detection of fungal pathogens and their associated microbiome Schwessinger Group - Plants, fungi, evolution
    Entropy, information theory and biodiversity
    Evolution of Varroa tolerance in feral honey bees Mikheyev Group - Evolutionary genomics
    Fungal bioinformatics Linde Group - Population genetics, evolution, phylogeography and molecular phylogenetics of fungi
    Fungal genomics, evolution, and host adaptation Schwessinger Group - Plants, fungi, evolution
    Genome wide association mapping Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption
    Honours projects are now available to study a wide range of topics in biosecurity and pathogenesis Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity
    How do biological molecules distinguish between ions? Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics
    How do climate-related changes in tidal patterns affect the foraging time and breeding behaviour of shorebirds?
    Identification and characterisation of membrane transport proteins
    Identification and functional characterisation of flax rust effectors Jones Group - Disease resistance
    Identification of 2000 novel protein isoforms in the human and mouse genomes Fahrer Group - Immunology
    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
    Identification of target genes of developmental transcription factors Brachyury, Gata and Caudal in sponges Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development
    Investigating adaptive genomic variation underlying drought tolerance in Eucalyptus Borevitz Group - Plant genomics for climate adaption
    Metagenomics and the analysis of microbial genomes Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes
    Molecular evolution and Phylogenetics Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes
    PhD projects are now available to study a wide range of topics in biosecurity and pathogenesis Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity
    Quantifying the impact of phenotypic plasticity on population persistence Noble Group - Animal ecophysiology and evolutionary ecology
    Rates of molecular evolution in parasites Bromham Group - Macroevolution, molecular evolution & Language evolution
    Sponge and coral microbiomes Adamska Group - Genomic and evolutionary basis of animal development
    Statistical methods of sequence divergence Huttley Group - Bioinformatics, molecular evolution of genomes
    Student opportunities in molecular analysis of CO2 acquisition by cyanobacteria Price Group - The cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism and the use of synthetic biology to transfer it to C3 crop plants
    Student projects - additional topics for the future Atkin Group - Plant respiration in a changing world
    Studying pathogen proteins that cause disease Solomon Group - Wheat biosecurity
    SynBio enabled biosensors Brock Group - Membrane Structural & Synthetic Biology
    Understanding the proteins responsible for our sense of touch Corry Group - Transport proteins and computational biophysics

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