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This project will uncover the physiological and molecular mechanisms that underpin how temperate seaweeds respond and adapt to ocean warming and other stressors. The project will identify adapted and maladapted genotypes and populations, to understand how these differences translate into long-term population resilience. The project will also study plastic responses to temperature, light and nutrient regimes to assess how early-life exposure influences later stress tolerance. Working with field collected specimens as well as laboratory reared cultures of early life stages, the project will combine controlled laboratory and aquarium experiments with molecular analyses spanning genomic to transcriptomic tools to link physiological performance with underlying molecular mechanisms. Quantitative skills and motivation for experimental and molecular work are required. Experience with marine ecology is advantageous but not essential.

Prof Thomas Wernberg – thomas.wernberg@uwa.edu.au

Dr Antoine Minne – antoine.minne@uwa.edu.au

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is a program of independent, supervised research that is assessed solely on the basis of a thesis, sometimes including a creative work component, that is examined externally. The work presented for a PhD must be a substantial and original contribution to scholarship, demonstrating mastery of the subject of interest as well as an advance in that field of knowledge. 

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The Master of Philosophy (MPhil) is a program of independent, supervised research and is assessed solely on the basis of a thesis.

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