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Flu vaccine
Honours project: This exciting research project will investigate virus purification, the effect of gamma-irradiation on virus structure, and the ability of gamma-irradiated viruses to induce cytotoxic T cell responses.
Drug resistance of malaria parasites
Honours project: Characterise drug sensitivities and resistance mechanisms of different malaria parasite species.
Making a bistable switch
Honours project: This honours project involves the design, construction and testing of an activator based bistable switch.
How Shigella initiates infection
Honours project: Investigate the Shigella adherence to and invasion of the human colon.
Molecular biology analysis of the function of Alzheimer's disease genes
Honours project: Investigate the molecular biology of the function of Alzheimer's disease genes.
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Models of Hadrons & Hadronic Interactions
Honours projects: Projects using models such as NJL, or the MIT bag, to calculate hadron properties, to calculate reactions involving hadrons and to build quark models of atomic nuclei.
Stress response in pathogenic bacteria: Haemophilus influenzae
Honours project: Participate in important research into the stress response in pathogenic bacteria, in particular, Haemophilus influenzae which can lead to several serious diseases in humans.
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Zika virus infection of the placenta
Honours project: Examine the role of the innate immune response to zika virus infection in the female reproductive tract (FRT) and placenta.
Structural biology & drug design
Honours project: Study nuclear receptors, microbial enzymology and broad-based cancer therapeutics through an honours project in protein crystallography.
Structure determination of bHLH/PAS proteins
Honours project: This honours project will use analogous strategies to express, purify, crystallise and solve structures of mammalian bHLH/PAS proteins.
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