CSIRO Plant Industry - Honours Student Program

CSIRO Plant Industry Honours Student Program

Plant Industry | Student opportunities | Honours Students

Come and use the best research facilities in plant science, get the benefits of supervision from leading research scientists and experience working in a scientific environment while maintaining your university links.

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CSIRO Plant Industry takes in honours students at different sites around the country researching a range of areas in the plant sciences.

Students undertaking an honours with CSIRO Plant Industry do so collaboratively with a university. Stipends may be available for honours students.

Topics

A range of topics may be studied as part of an honours project at CSIRO Plant Industry including:

biochemistry
bioinformatics
biotechnology
botany and native flora
conservation biology
genetics and genomics
molecular plant science
native vegetation ecology
plant evolution and systematics
plant physiology
plant population genetics
plant structure and function
sustainable agriculture

Current honours students

Greenup, Aaron (2007)

Canberra, Building 1 (Program V)
Identifying and characterising dual specificity protein phosphatase in cereals
Australian National University
CSIRO supervisor: Dr Ahmed Regina, Dr Sadequr Rahman

Powell, Rosanna (2007)

Brisbane, Queensland Bioscience Precinct (Program M)
Understanding establishment of sugarcane from seeds and setts to assess the risk of undesired establishment of GM sugarcane
University of Queensland
CSIRO supervisor: Dr Graham Bonnett
University supervisor: Dr Susanne Schmidt
Supported by the Cooperative Research Centre for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology (CRC SIIB)

Warren, Christopher (2007)

Canberra, Discovery (Program Y)
Mutational analysis of the role of conserved domains in flax rust resistance protein function.
Australian National University
CSIRO supervisor: Dr Peter Dodds
University supervisor: Dr David Jones

For more information or to be put in touch with a potential supervisor in your area of interest please contact Dr Mark Peoples on 02 6246 5244 or mark.peoples@csiro.au.

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