Coordinators: Professor John Hamill (Clayton) and Dr Wendy Wright (Gippsland)
Candidates wishing to undertake research in the biological sciences may enrol for programs leading to the degrees of MSc and PhD through the School of Biological Science and the School of Applied Science and Engineering. The degrees are awarded for the successful completion of a supervised research program, though some coursework may be prescribed to meet the needs of individual candidates. The School of Biological Sciences maintain electron microscopes, analytical equipment, constant-temperature rooms, experimental areas and a field station. Research may be undertaken in ecology, genetics, and plant or animal biology in the following areas:
Including regional and trans-boundary haze, air quality issues in Southeast Asia, the indoor environment and urban air pollution.
Of mosquitoes using Culicinomyces.
Research into methods of improving biodiversity in production and constructed environments, including farming and forestry landscapes. Studies in this area are very applied and are often conducted in collaboration with the Department of Primary Industries, Department of Sustainability and Environment, and/or other industry partners.
Including algal physiology and marine botany.
This includes freshwater and marine ecology, animal ecophysiology, animal behaviour, vertebrate ecology, molecular ecology, invasion biology, plant ecology, vegetation ecology and management, terrestrial vertebrate ecology, and wetland and behavioural ecology.
Systems development and application in industry and commerce, and environmental communication and reporting.
Including evolutionary genetics, conservation genetics and evolutionary ecology.
Aerobic spore-forming thermophilic bacteria in foods.
Including Arabidopsis development, molecular genetics and Drosophila neurogenetics.
Changes in gene expression patterns associated with environmental factors.
Biosolids as fertilisers, soil microbiology, iron reducing bacteria in corrosion, and thermophilic bacteria in oil basins and in pine bark composting.
Including animal biochemistry and physiology, developmental neurobiology, animal behaviour, mammology and neural biology, vertebrate physiology and conservation, and functional morphology of digestion.
From brown coal.
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