Scholarships
Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls
2 PhD Scholarships ($25,000 p.a.)
School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Aim: To advance fundamental scientific understanding of plant cell wall biology to enable sustainable biomass production for food security, human health, and energy biomass conversion The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls (CoE PCW) is an international research and training centre that will define the regulation of molecular, enzymic and cellular processes that control the synthesis, deposition, re-modelling and depolymerisation of wall polysaccharides of cereals and grasses. Plant cell walls are the major renewable resource for transport fuels, act as functional foods to improve human health, and are a source of raw materials for industrial processes. More specific aims of the Centre are to define:
- molecular mechanisms for the synthesis of individual cell wall components
- how wall components are organized and the nature of molecular networks within walls
- remodelling of wall networks both during normal growth and under stress
