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Citizen Science: Using people power to drive research
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Honours project: What will it take to make the Wild Orchid Watch national citizen science project successful in the long term?
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Improving plant responses to sub-optimal conditions through plant hormones
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Honours project: Make fundamental discoveries about how strigolactones act to alter the growth of plant root cells or applying the latest knowledge of strigolactones to crops.
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A sweet treat? Salmonella in raw egg based desserts
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Honours project: Combine your interest in food science, animal science and biomedical science by investigating the the behaviour of Salmonella in mousse, tiramisu, and custard.
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Let's improve the way science is communicated
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Honours project: Science writing - how to improve reader confidence and learning
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Retinal energy metabolism and links to eye disease
Honours project: Investigate retinal metabolism associated with eye disease.
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How do the public perceive climate change?
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Honours project: Monitoring the impact of media reporting on the public attitude to climate change
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Role of an RNA m5C methyltransferase during plant reproduction
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Honours project: Investigate the role of an RNA m5C methyltransferase during early reproductive development as mutants abort early during seed development.
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Design of biomimetic coatings to understand plant-pathogen relations
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Honours project: Investigate how plant fungal pathogens adhere to and infect plant surfaces.
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Shoots or roots - which controls plant-fungal interactions?
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Honours project: Investigate the origin of signals affecting colonisation of plant roots by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
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Structural studies of cell wall proteins involved during pathogenesis
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Honours project: Study the structure of fungal cell wall proteins using ion mobility mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography.
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