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Nutrient cycling and soil respiration
Honours project: Investigate how soil microbial activity and nutrient availability are influenced by changes in water content or exposure to high temperature.
Investigating & exploiting triplex DNA structures in gene regulation
Honours project: Explore new leads for disruption of DNA triplex structures for treatment of related human diseases.
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Agave spirits: Using wild yeasts to ferment fructose
Honours project: Fermentation of wild yeasts to create Australia's first agave spirit.
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Snake venom proteins
Honours project: Gain new insights into higher order protein structures in selected snake venoms.
Deep learning for better cellular imaging
Honours project: Help improve the imaging capabilities of scientists studying infection and reproductive biology.
Environmental monitoring: What is the extent of canopy dieback in a refugial forest?
Honours project: Use satellite imagery and on-ground monitoring data to map the extent of tree dieback to develop predictions and policy recommendations.
Structural study of misfolding proteins
Honours project: Investigate the structural characterisation of protein misfolding in amyloid diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
What goes down, must come up?
Honours project: Explore the chemistry of magma to trace what the inputs to volcanoes are at depth.
Reduced dimensionality representations of soft matter
Honours project: Use methods from statistical mechanics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to develop algorithms to automate the dimensionality reduction process.
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Ubiquitin signalling in human diseases
Honours project: Investigate the effect of ubiquitin signalling on cell differentiation.