News: Honours projects - Ecology and environmental science
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
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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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Plasticity of lifespan in the honeybee & the disposable soma theory
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Honours project: This project investigates the plasticity of lifespan in the honeybee and the disposable soma theory.
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Sex chromosomes of the platypus & echidna
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Honours project: Study the meiotic organisation of monotreme sex chromosomes – that’s genetics research into the platypus and echidna.
Active & Passive Measurement of Atmospheric Trace Gases
Honours projects: This project could develop along a couple of paths. either developing a lidar (active) that measures Raman-scattered light from water, and which will ultimately be deployed at Davis Station in Antarctica as part of a larger campaign to understand the influence of the Southern Ocean in the Earth’s climate system; or quantifying methane leaks, based on a knowledge of the local atmospheric conditions and measured methane concentrations.
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