With more than its fair share of Australia’s best researchers and educators, ANU provides distinctive and inspiring research-led education for postgraduate students. Our genetics staff typify this excellence in research and education and are among some of the top national and international genetics researchers.
A broad range of research opportunities for graduate students in Genetics are offered through one of the discipline based Graduate Research Programs listed below:
Through the links to these Graduate Research Programs you will find information on research topics, academic staff, scholarships and application procedures. |
A selection of the range of postgraduate research topics offered in Genetics:
- The Ecology and Population Genetics of Orchid Pollinators
- Population genomics of oil genes in Eucalyptus globulus
- Genetic basis of mosaic resistance within trees of Eucalypt species
- Tempo and mode of molecular evolution.
- Managing and identifying disease resistance genes in the barley scald pathogen
- Population genetics & phylogeography of Australian Pelargoniums
- Functional analysis of the lytic genes of bacteriophage SFV of shigella flexneri
- Functional analyses of essential nematode-specific genes
- The Role of miR159 in Arabidopsis gene regulation
- Characterisation of aluminium tolerance genes in crop plants
- Gene discovery in cotton fiber initiation and development
- Photo receptor-specific gene expression in Age-related Macular Degeneration
- Genetic regulation of water use efficiency and of mechanical stress sensing in roots
- Elucidating the genetic framework required for stable protein translation and assembly in chloroplasts
- Cyanobacterial genetics: rapid evolution by lateral gene transfer?
- Characterisation of selected genes involved in learning, memory and behavioural plasticity in the honey bee
- Genes isolated from Australian orchid ovules and their effect on vegetative and meiotic division in budding yeast
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