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22 November 2013

Exciting new research collaborations in areas ranging from the arts to zoology are under way between The University of Queensland and .

The latest round of ¹ú²ú̽»¨-UWA Bilateral Research Collaboration Awards could help solve to solve some of the world’s major problems.

The awards support 28 projects and amount to a total $384,700, with 15 ¹ú²ú̽»¨-led projects awarded $199,700 and 13 UWA-led projects awarded $185,000.

The awards offer up to $20,000 to support joint projects between researchers at UWA and ¹ú²ú̽»¨, fostering new collaborations or enhancing existing relationships.

Project titles include:

  • Technologies to enhance the discovery and surveillance of vector-borne viruses
  • Fixing nature: a critical account of our struggles to address problems in the coastal marine environment
  • Can frost tolerance be induced in wheat plants? A $100 million question
  • Genomic approaches to explore plant-insect interactions
  • Chemical and biochemical profiling of the anti-cancer marine natural product, alpkinidine
  • Validation of a freehand 3D ultrasound system for morphological measures of the calf muscle in young children with cerebral palsy
  • Social memory and histories of feminism.                                                                                                                                                    

MEDIA: Carolyn Varley, 0413 601 248, c.varley@uq.edu.au.