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Improving survival of new born piglets & sow performance
![School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences image - Will van Wettere](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/pigs-will.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=0RD-UDlL)
Honours project: This research aims to increase the reproductive output of sows by increasing piglet survival using supplementary nutritional strategies in late gestation.
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Can citizen science save the planet?
![Bandicoot visiting researcher Jasmin Packer's Hideyhole in the Adelaide Hills](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-11/packer-bandicoot-hideyhole.jpg?h=6eb229a4&itok=DmSNjOoE)
Honours project: Discover better ways to transform citizen science into behaviours that have a direct benefit for our endangered bandicoots.
Evolution of sterile helpers in bees, ants and wasps
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Honours project: Explore evolutionary genetics by explaining the evolution of sterile helpers in the eusocial Hymenoptera - ants, bees and wasps.
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Ecological selection of Giant Australian Cuttlefish
![Juvenile giant Australian cuttlefish developing under rocks in the waters of South Australia. Fred Bavendam, Author provided](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/2018-11/news-cuttlefish.jpg?h=8869a3dd&itok=rmrP6lLq)
Honours project: Plunge into research about the Giant Australian Cuttlefish!
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Survival of Western Pygmy possums in arid environments
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Honours project: Do western Pygmy possums show genetic evidence of selection for enhanced survival in arid environments that may be useful for predictive translocations ahead of climate change impacts?
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Echidna CSI [Conservation Science Initiative]
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Honours project: Get involved the citizen science project that combines field ecology and molecular biology for echidna conservation.
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The echidna genome project
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Honours project: Take part in an international collaboration that will provide the first echidna genome assembly.
Xenobiotic metabolism in Australian marsupials
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Honours project: Investigate the dietary effect of eucalyptus terpenes on drug metabolising enzyme CYPs and UGTs in Australian marsupials.
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Plant systematics & population genetics, evolutionary ecology & plant macrofossils
![Plant systematics & population genetics, evolutionary ecology & plant macrofossils](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/plants-24622.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=zXnjMJhU)
Honours project: Work with some of South Australia’s leading scientists on a research project about plant systematics and population genetics, evolutionary ecology or plant macrofossils.
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New Metal-organic frameworks for Biomacromolecule Protection
Honours project: Investigate new metal-organic frameworks for biomacromolecule encapsulation and protection
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