The newly established ARC Centre of Excellence for
Translational Photosynthesis (CETP) is seeking two motivated
PhD candidates to work at its UWS node housed within the
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE). The PhD
candidate is anticipated to commence in 2015.
Prof Murray Badger and A/Prof Spencer Whitney examine Brachypodium in the growth chambers. Brachypodium is an ideal model plant for cereals like wheat.
One of the key challenges of the 21st century is closing the gap between current rates of food production and increasing global food demands, requiring new ways to improve crop productivity.
The CETP seeks to identify natural and modern solutions to supercharging photosynthesis as a means of improving crop yield and efficiency.
C4 plants (e.g., maize, sorghum, sugarcane) are more productive and efficient than the more prevalent C3 (e.g., wheat, rice) plants because they operate a CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM) which serves to supercharge photosynthesis. The CCM is a set of biochemical and anatomical modifications to the ancestral C3 system that requires extra energy.
The overall aim of the PhD project is to elucidate the molecular and environmental regulation of C4 photosynthesis using naturally-occurring and genetically altered C4 grasses.
The project outcomes will serve the strategic goals of bioengineering C3 crops with superior C4-photosynthetic traits and improving the productivity of C4 crops.
The project offers training in various plant physiology and biochemistry techniques, including leaf gas exchange, stable carbon isotope discrimination, chlorophyll fluorescence, bioimaging, enzyme activity, gene and protein expression, data analysis and scientific communication.
The PhD student will be supervised by Dr Oula Ghannoum (HIE), and will work closely with a number of outstanding scientists within the CETP, including Professor Susanne von Caemmerer (ANU), Associate Professor Spencer Whitney (ANU) and Dr Robert Furbank (CSIRO).
More Details : http://www.uws.edu.au/hie/opportunities/hdr_scholarship_cetp
Prof Murray Badger and A/Prof Spencer Whitney examine Brachypodium in the growth chambers. Brachypodium is an ideal model plant for cereals like wheat.
One of the key challenges of the 21st century is closing the gap between current rates of food production and increasing global food demands, requiring new ways to improve crop productivity.
The CETP seeks to identify natural and modern solutions to supercharging photosynthesis as a means of improving crop yield and efficiency.
C4 plants (e.g., maize, sorghum, sugarcane) are more productive and efficient than the more prevalent C3 (e.g., wheat, rice) plants because they operate a CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM) which serves to supercharge photosynthesis. The CCM is a set of biochemical and anatomical modifications to the ancestral C3 system that requires extra energy.
The overall aim of the PhD project is to elucidate the molecular and environmental regulation of C4 photosynthesis using naturally-occurring and genetically altered C4 grasses.
The project outcomes will serve the strategic goals of bioengineering C3 crops with superior C4-photosynthetic traits and improving the productivity of C4 crops.
The project offers training in various plant physiology and biochemistry techniques, including leaf gas exchange, stable carbon isotope discrimination, chlorophyll fluorescence, bioimaging, enzyme activity, gene and protein expression, data analysis and scientific communication.
The PhD student will be supervised by Dr Oula Ghannoum (HIE), and will work closely with a number of outstanding scientists within the CETP, including Professor Susanne von Caemmerer (ANU), Associate Professor Spencer Whitney (ANU) and Dr Robert Furbank (CSIRO).
More Details : http://www.uws.edu.au/hie/opportunities/hdr_scholarship_cetp
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