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Using the ancient DNA to explore human adaptation & evolutionary medicine
Honours project: Get involved in research into human adaptation and evolutionary medicine.
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Developing a forensic mitochondrial DNA database for human identification
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Honours project: Learn with the experts who are developing new genomics techniques for human identification.
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Phylogeography and conservation genetics of Australian birds and mammals, including night parrots, wombats and quolls
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Honours project: Use DNA sampled through space and time to understand the evolution and conservation genetics of Australian birds and mammals.
Molecular diet analysis of introduced and native species
Honours project: Molecular diet analysis of introduced and native species using DNA.
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Molecular diet analysis of bent-winged bats
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Honours project: Explore the diet of bent-winged bats through conservation genetics and forensic biology.
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Nutrition & collective movement in the Australian plague locust
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Honours project: Investigate the movement of plague locusts using laboratory and field experiments.
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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.
Understanding pollination processes between bees and flowers
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Honours project: Investigate the molecular basis of extrorse anther outcrossing mechanism in flowering plants.
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Reduced dimensionality representations of soft matter
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Honours project: Use methods from statistical mechanics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to develop algorithms to automate the dimensionality reduction process.
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