Molecular and Life Sciences research projects

The current honours projects for the School of Molecular and Life Sciences are listed below.

Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM)

CCDM offers a wide range of honours projects. If you would like more information on the projects or the application process, please contact CCDM@curtin.edu.au, clearly stating the name of the project and the nature of your query.

• Breakdown of agrichemicals inside crop plants [.pdf 91 kB]
• Camera trap catches in relation to vegetation and habitat structure [.pdf 275kB] 
• Characterising the mineral and organic composition of rangeland soils with FT-IR spectroscopy. [.pdf 130kB]
• Characterising the spatial-temporal variation of soil respiration in native forests [.pdf 182kB] 
• Comparative ventilatory physiology of marsupials [.pdf 43kB] 
• Discovery and development of new herbicides [.pdf 129kB]
• Do quail and pigeons disperse seeds of the shrub, Stachystemon, that only grows under isolated trees at Eneabba? [.pdf 557kB] 
• Establishing a long-term monitoring program in a transitional reef system [.pdf 132kB]
• Fractionating soils to characterise their mineral-organic composition [.pdf 143kB]
• Interpreting Holocene mammal biodiversity and abundances in the in the Cape Leeuwin-Naturaliste region [.pdf 131kB]
• Invertebrate biodiversity within Perth’s lentic freshwater systems [.pdf 247kB] 
• Microplastics in marine and terrestrial environments [.pdf 310kB] 
• Nesting behaviour and spawning periodicity of scalyfins (genus Parma) [.pdf 132kB] 
• Of metals and birds [.pdf 142kB] 
• Oxidative damage and metabolic function during cryopreservation of endangered plant species [.pdf 114kB] 
• Patterns of activity of echidnas in the West Australian wheatbelt [.pdf 153 kB]
• Rhizosphere profiling using deep sequencing [.pdf 260kB] 
• Sediment dynamic influences on fish grazing behaviour, Miri, Borneo [.pdf 89kB] 
• Validating eDNA techniques for detecting small desert vertebrates from soil samples [.pdf 94 kB]
• Mapping patterns of genetic connectivity in Perth froglets [.pdf 99kB]
• Could bilbies facilitate the cane toad invasion? [.pdf 169kB]
• Operation Toad Surveillance: which method of cane toad detection is most effective and efficient? (Honours Project) [.pdf 291kB]
• Training the ‘Catling Gun’ an AI object classification and tracking system for invasive species management (Honours Project) [.pdf 299kB]
• Non-human commuters Predicting species movement ability and occurrence in urban environments (Honours Project) [.pdf 354kB]
• Saving our trees improving methods of detecting and trapping the tiny Polyphagous Shothole beetle (Honours Project) [.pdf 350kB]
• Determining any Environmental Concerns with Glycine (Honours Project) [.pdf 115kB]
• Can Effluent Glycine Solution be Used to Grow Plants? (Honours Project) [.pdf 87kB]