Genetic and epigenetic control of developmental competence.

发育是生命的一个重要生物过程，了解发育对澳大利亚具有重要的医学和经济效益。这项研究的目的是使用一种简单、易于操作和建立良好的实验生物体-真菌-作为包括人类在内的其他生物体的发育模型来研究发育。此外，真菌在许多层面上直接影响生命。真菌可以是人类、其他动物或植物的病原体，严重影响我们的健康、农业和工业。真菌也有益于其他生物体，特别是许多植物，并用于制造用于健康和生物技术行业的药物和酶。

Development is an important biological process of life and understanding development has important medical and economic benefits for Australia. This research aims to study development using a simple, easily manipulated and well established experimental organism, a fungus, as a model for development in other organisms, including humans. In addition, fungi directly impact on life at many levels. Fungi can be pathogens of humans, other animals or plants significantly affecting our health, agriculture and industry. Fungi are also beneficial to other organisms, especially to many plants, and are used to manufacture pharmaceuticals and enzymes used in the health and biotechnology industries.