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Agave spirits: Using wild yeasts to ferment fructose
![Associate Professor Rachel Burton and PhD Student Kendall Corbin visiting the Agave plantation in Queensland](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-09/agave-burton-kendall.jpg?h=4ae7f33d&itok=OSyc6O36)
Honours project: Fermentation of wild yeasts to create Australia's first agave spirit.
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Impact of thermal environment and melatonin on animal body temperature and reproduction
![PIgs](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/pigs-3.jpg?h=96a96008&itok=cY0BW-Sn)
Honours project: Research opportunities are available to investigate how body temperature variation in pigs and sheep impact reproduction.
Koala health and disease in South Australia
![Koala Health Research Group - Goldie](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/koala-research-group-Goldie.jpg?h=69189783&itok=u_04WKMo)
Honours project: Join the Koala Health Research Group and contribute to key research to improve the health of current and future animal populations.
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Saving megafauna from bacteria
![A skeleton of a Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) in the Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte Caves National Park Karora, Public domain](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-thylacoleo_skeleton_in_Naracoorte_Caves.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=LadQJXBS)
Honours projects: Identify and image biofilms that threaten the Naracoorte Caves National Park fossils.
Evaluating vaccine response in sheep
![Colin Trengove lamb ewe wide](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/trengove-lame-pd-ewe-wide.jpg?h=cf58802e&itok=P_M8AnWN)
Honours project: Evaluate the efficacy of a Mycoplasma vaccine to produce an immune response in sheep.
Optical fibres in space for high bandwidth and black hole detection
![International Space Station - Image by NASA](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2021-01/space-iss-nasa-201587.jpg?h=08b866d1&itok=sVsXhfLF)
Honours project: Explore the creation of high-purity glass aboard the International Space Station to unlock internet bandwidth limits and improve gravitational wave detectors.
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Understanding T cells in autoimmune disease
![Honours Iain Comerford Fig X](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-09/honours-comerford-figure-x.jpg?h=bf053861&itok=-1Ie6axf)
Honours project: Investigate transcriptional control of inflammatory T helper cells in autoimmunity.
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Controlling inflammation during influenza infection
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Honours project: Investigate Tr1 cell mediated control of tissue damage during influenza infection.
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Discovery of new genes that promote T cell activity against cancer
![Honours Iain Comerford Fig 2a](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-09/honours-comerford-fig2a.jpg?h=b646a0fe&itok=LMi7jK6X)
Honours project: Help identify novel genes involved in T cell trafficking to solid tumours.
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Disease resistance in plants: Oat
![Septoria Leaf Blotch in oat](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-09/honours-yongle-li-oat-septoria.jpg?h=3441e33b&itok=aIjnFNUG)
Honours project: Combine your passion for agriculture, plant science and bioinformatics to investigate the genetics of septoria leaf blotch to aid the development of resistant oat varieties.