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Assessing the effects of plant seed extracts on Caco2 cell cultures
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Honours project: Investigate the nutritional value of a range of plant seeds using cell culture models
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Making a bistable switch
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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
![Investigate the molecular biology of the function of Alzheimer's disease genes.](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/lardelli-alzheimers-genes.png?h=4849ed3d&itok=ICi-Cmdi)
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
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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.
Identifying new drugs that kill parasites
Honours project: Work with a team of researchers who are identifying and characterising novel drugs that kill apicomplexan parasites.
Role of HIFs in cancer
![Decipher the specific roles of HIF1 and HIF2 in multiple myeloma.](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/peet-hif-cancer.png?h=d22cabc7&itok=0JA1GSOF)
Honours project: Decipher the specific roles of HIF1 and HIF2 in multiple myeloma.
Synthetic phage therapy
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Honours project: Investigate the structural biology of bacteriophage proteins.