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Restoring grassy woodlands: interaction between native & invasive grasses
![Woodland vegatation image, Greg Guerin](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/2018-11/news-woodland-vegetation.jpg?h=1a8422da&itok=8JE-xjlc)
Honours project: Contribute to research into various strategies to restore grassy woodland.
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Interactions between plant parasites & their hosts
![Invasive species - blackberry](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/blackberry-bush.jpg?h=a5dcf78a&itok=PI3VThUy)
Honours project: Join the investigation into the use of parasites as biological control agents.
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Mighty macrophytes: Ecology & management of common reed & bulrush
![Ecology & management of common reed & bulrush](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/bulrush.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=wb2ot6Rs)
Honours project: Investigate the ecology and management of common reed and bulrush.
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Emu-wrens & other threatened fauna of the Fleurieu Peninsula wetlands
![Research to save the emu wren](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/emu-wren.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=7Aiy-qbn)
Honours project: Help save the emu-wrens and other threatened fauna of the Fleurieu Peninsula wetlands.
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Spatial information, environmental remote sensing & GIS
![Remote Sensing](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-04/remote-sensing.jpg?h=93d6d660&itok=gEQrSE6Q)
Honours project: Use spatial information tools and data in a wide range of applications and settings, including terrestrial, wetland and marine ecology, wildlife and habitats, land assessment and management and earth science.
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Viable, but non-culturable bacteria: Understanding the risks for food safety
![Salmonella species growing on X.L.D. agar Nathan Reading [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/salmonella.jpg?h=0d6ba564&itok=jRXiht6q)
Honours project: This project aims to determine the ability of viable but non culturable bacteria to cause disease.
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Isolation & evaluation of protein pattern of koala retroviruses
![Koala, Cleland](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/koala-10914.jpg?h=6981f79a&itok=iys5II52)
Honours project: Determine the antigenic pattern of isolated Koala retroviruses in South Australia.
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Full genome sequencing of recombinant strains of canine hepatitis
![DNA sequencing](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/dna-sequencing-22859.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=ZnAMkV1f)
Honours project: Full genome sequencing will be performed to find the genomic structure of a new infectious canine hepatitis virus.
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Australian zeolite for ammonia control in aquarium fish tanks
![Aquaculture](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/aquaculture-24583.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=-btZ8FF4)
Honours project: Study the effects of 'in water and 'in feed' application of zeolite powder for the control of ammonia in aquarium fish display tanks.
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Exploring the interactions between Salmonella and Campylobacter species
![Campylobacter - CDC [Public domain]](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-05/campylobacter.jpg?h=44be63ab&itok=PaXofsbL)
Honours project: Characterise both intra- and intercellular interactions between Salmonella and Campylobacter.
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