Graduate Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Overview
Graduate Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology offers research projects in a range of biological systems, which involve fundamental investigations and applications of molecular, physiological, cellular, developmental and genetic processes in animals, plants, micro-organisms and viruses. Studies cover the experimental disciplines of molecular biology, biotechnology, cell biology, genomics, microbiology, genetics, immunology, virology, parasitology, and entomology. The areas in which research is carried out include macro-molecular structure and function, cell structure and function, membrane biology, proteomics, functional genomics, molecular and cellular immunology and microbial genetics. These utilise modern techniques and strategies, with biotechnology and genomics being areas in which the pace of discovery has been exceptionally rapid. A number of research groups have also incorporated commercialisation into their research programs with applications in plant and animal disease and development.
Graduate Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at ANU draws on the broad spectrum of expertise and facilities of Canberra's large and distinguished biological and biomedical research community. This creates a dynamic and well-resourced program, including multiple seminar series, courses and specialist expertise and facilities encompassing a broad spectrum of biology. Consequently, students have access to the University's well-equipped laboratories, which include protein and DNA analysis facilities, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance facilities, microarray facilities, electron microscopy flowcytometry, histology, and an X-ray crystallography laboratory. Access to excellent library and computing facilities is also available.
Participants include researchers in the School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the John Curtin School of Medical Research, the Research School of Biological Sciences, the Department of Chemistry, the Research School of Chemistry and the CSIRO Divisions of Wildlife and Ecology, Plant Industry and Entomology. Some of these are associated with Cooperative Research Centres. Collaborations between these institutions are common.
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