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Making a bistable switch

Honours project: This honours project involves the design, construction and testing of an activator based bistable switch.
Drug resistance of malaria parasites
Honours project: Characterise drug sensitivities and resistance mechanisms of different malaria parasite species.
Molecular biology analysis of the function of Alzheimer's disease genes

Honours project: Investigate the molecular biology of the function of Alzheimer's disease genes.
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Models of Hadrons & Hadronic Interactions
Honours projects: Projects using models such as NJL, or the MIT bag, to calculate hadron properties, to calculate reactions involving hadrons and to build quark models of atomic nuclei.
Stress response in pathogenic bacteria: Haemophilus influenzae

Honours project: Participate in important research into the stress response in pathogenic bacteria, in particular, Haemophilus influenzae which can lead to several serious diseases in humans.
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Zika virus infection of the placenta
Honours project: Examine the role of the innate immune response to zika virus infection in the female reproductive tract (FRT) and placenta.
Role of HIFs in cancer

Honours project: Decipher the specific roles of HIF1 and HIF2 in multiple myeloma.
Deciphering & exploiting bacterial cholesterol metabolism to combat disease

Honours project: Address the fundamental science behind the use of the steroid cholesterol as a source of energy by bacteria.
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Synthetic biology applications of enzymes
Honours project: Use approaches to generate enzyme catalyst based systems to develop greener and sustainable processes for the production of useful and high value chemicals.
Deciphering the catalytic potential & the electron transfer pathways of microorganisms

Honours project: Study new enzymes and the associated ferredoxins from bacteria found in interesting environments (or genes from metagenomes) or which carry out novel reactions.