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Investigating the origin of mammal sex chromosomes
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Honours project: Undertake a research project that investigates the origin of therian sex chromosomes
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Using metal-organic frameworks to understand catalysis
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Honours project: Insights into industrial catalysis and x-ray crystallography in metal-organic frameworks.
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Stomatal protection mechanisms in Casuarinaceae
Honours project: Investigate how this iconic family manage to evolve to the point where it is one of the last trees standing in arid Australia.
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Modulation of the plant defence response by the fungal extracellular matrix
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Honours project: Investigate the relationship between fungal plant pathogen secretions and the plant defence response
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Restoration of Adelaide’s coastal seagrasses
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Honours project: Help support the restoration of Adelaide’s coastal seagrasses.
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Resolving the taxonomic status of bandicoots and gliders for conservation management
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Honours project: Study the population genetic structure and phylogeography of either bandicoots or marsupial gliders.
Hill-Robertson interference, the Red Queen and the evolution of sex
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Honours project: This evolutionary genetics honours project explores the Hill-Robertson interference, the Red Queen and the evolution of sex.
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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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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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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.