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Understanding pollination processes between bees and flowers
![Bee flower image](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/bee-flower.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=ZGoN5NKC)
Honours project: Investigate the molecular basis of extrorse anther outcrossing mechanism in flowering plants.
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Deep learning for better cellular imaging
![Malaria biology imaging - Danny Wilson](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/malaria-biology-imaging-dwilson.png?h=ed183863&itok=xtfem-wV)
Honours project: Help improve the imaging capabilities of scientists studying infection and reproductive biology.
What goes down, must come up?
![Volcanoes](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/mgee-lucy-tracking-sediment-volcanoes.jpg?h=b0b2650f&itok=LcXiXke-)
Honours project: Explore the chemistry of magma to trace what the inputs to volcanoes are at depth.
It’s space water, but not as we know it
![Full moon. Image: Gregory H. Revera, CC BY-SA 3.0](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-full-moon.jpg?h=bfc5f87a&itok=d7Xyypqw)
Honours projects: Explore laser-induced fluorescence of water and aqueous minerals for space applications.
The Curnamona Cube
![Curnamona](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/heinson-graham-curnamona.png?h=8f821dc7&itok=v-SxnahJ)
Honours projects: Fly across remote Australia in a helicopter, for one of the world's biggest geophysical science projects.
Nutrition & collective movement in the Australian plague locust
![Australian plague locusts](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/australian-plague-locusts.jpg?h=86464cde&itok=fKV2cGul)
Honours project: Investigate the movement of plague locusts using laboratory and field experiments.
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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.
Quantum Field Theory
Honours projects: Projects can be phenomenological or mathematical in character, or the focus may be on technique.
Complex Systems
Honours projects: Projects focused on complex systems which are are typically comprised of a large number of interconnected components which interact collectively, leading to emergent behaviour, such as self-organisation, which is not apparent from the properties of the underlying components.
Fossils under a new light
![Fossil front visible image Georgios Tsiminis](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-fossil-front-visible.jpg?h=b646a0fe&itok=rsvzpMcx)
Honours projects: Use new fluorescence imaging techniques to analyse fossils that range in age from half-a-billion to some tens of thousands of years old.