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Plasticity in pre-and post-flowering resource allocation: which breeding strategy for which environment?
Investigation of wheat plasticity for tillering, stem reserves and stay-green across genotypes and environments, with opportunities in crop modelling to assess the breeding value of such traits in production environments.
- Supervisor
- Professor Karine Chenu and Associate Professor Millicent Smith
- Location
- Gatton Campus
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Investigation of Railway Studs and Squats
Develop a generalised validated mathematical model for rail studs, and in particular to examine how this mechanism differs from that for rail squats.
- Supervisor
- Professor Paul Meehan and Dr Aditya Khanna
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Catalytic dehydrogenation process of liquid organic hydrogen carriers
Focus on facile catalytic dehydrogenation of liquid organic hydrogen carriers by applying Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) technology, which has the potential to solve the long-term pure hydrogen storage and transport.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Muxina Konarova and Ping Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Developing biopolymer systems for long-term controlled intra-ruminal release of methane inhibitors in livestock
Investigate how the release dynamics of methane inhibitors from biopolymer systems influence their effectiveness and interaction within the ruminant environment.
- Supervisor
- Dr Celine Chaleat, Professor Bronwyn Laycock and Professor Steven Pratt
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Chemical sciences, Engineering
Multimodal MRI Biomarkers for Motor Neuron Disease
This project will develop and evaluate multimodal MRI biomarkers for the diagnosis and monitoring of motor neuron disease (MND). The successful candidate will integrate imaging measures including structural, diffusion, functional, spectroscopic, and spinal MRI into computational models that capture disease heterogeneity.
- Supervisor
- Dr Thomas B Shaw and Professor Markus Barth
- Location
- St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Engineering, Health sciences
Neural circuits for spatial navigation and locomotion control in Drosophila
Explore how fly brains compute navigation and motor control. Learn cutting-edge methods in optogenetics, connectomics, neurophysiology, and computational neuroscience. Applicants with neuroscience, genetics, or engineering backgrounds encouraged
- Supervisor
- Dr Kai Feng and Professor Barry Dickson
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Next generation Newton-type methods with minimum residual solver
Advance Newton-type optimisation using modern numerical linear algebra, creating new theory and open-source tools for AI and machine learning.
- Supervisor
- Professor Fred Roosta and Dr Lindon Roberts
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
CSIRO Industry PhD - Pasture legumes in tropical and subtropical systems: diagnosing and addressing productivity and adoption gaps
You will investigate a range of factors that may be preventing producer use of tropical or sub-tropical legumes, as well as factors limiting productivity of legumes in subtropical pasture systems.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Shane Campbell and Dr Lindsay Bell
- Location
- UQ Gatton Campus (as well as some time at CSIRO, Forest Hill and QDPI Toowoomba)
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Catalytic converting waste polyolefin into olefin monomers
Recycle waste polymers, such as polyethylene, into valuable olefins through catalytic pyrolysis.
- Supervisor
- Dr Muxina Konarova and Ping Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Leveraging near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technique combined with artificial intelligence (AI) in detecting AMR organisms in water
The PhD candidate will test the capacity of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technique and artificial intelligence (AI) for detection of an array of bacteria associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that are commonly found in water.
- Supervisor
- Dr Maggy Lord and Associate Professor Patrick Harris
- Location
- St Lucia and Herston
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Environmental sciences, Health sciences