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Tropical rainforest in Antarctic latitudes
Honours project: Examine fossil floras to help answer important questions about South Australia’s ecological history.
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Fossil history of selected plant taxa
Honours project: Explores a detailed examination of the fossil history of selected plant taxa.
Leaf morphology in silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii)
Honours project: This flora holds important clues to the way in which trees coped with major climate changes.
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Re-vegetating South Australia
Honours project: Go back in time and use fossil records to help determine what species of flora we can re-vegetate parts of South Australia with.
Plant taxa & reconstruction of fossil palaeoenvironments
Honours project: Assess the environmental ranges of key fossil plant taxa from south-eastern Australia.
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Bioinformatics as applied to the study of genome structure and function
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Honours project: Expand your knowledge and curiosity in bioinformatics and computational genetics.
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Optimisation of chimeric antigen receptor immunotherapy: building a better car?
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Honours project: Undertake an honours project in the construction and evaluation of a novel Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell targeting a solid tumour antigen.
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JAZ2 is important for Treg function
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Honours project: Study novel targets for autoimmune therapy via the validation of Foxp3 regulated genes critical for treg function.
Molecular mechanism of male reproduction in cereals
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Honours project: Comprehensive training of functional gene research combined with plant science, cell biology, and developmental biology.
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Live cell imaging of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) signals in plants
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Honours project: Investigate plant stress responses by visualisation of GABA signals in real time using confocal microscopy techniques.
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