Research Projects
Cryo-electron tomography (CET) allows for the highest resolution cellular imaging possible at the moment. To get access to all areas of the cell we...
Supervisor: Dr Georg Ramm
The Australian health system faces a significant challenge in catering to its highly diverse population. Cultural and language differences greatly...
Supervisor: Dr Zahra Aziz
Variant curation is the process of collecting, combining and weighting evidence to determine if a genetic variant is pathogenic, benign or a variant...
Supervisor: Dr Philip Harraka
Cycling for transport has the potential to lead to huge gains in population health (such as through increased physical activity) and environmental...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Beck
Hepatitis B infection affects over 257 million people worldwide and is a major public health issue. Without timely treatment, chronic hepatitis B...
Supervisor: Dr Jess Howell
The Y-chromosome gene, SRY, is widely expressed in the male brain, such as the substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area (VTA), pre-frontal cortex (...
Supervisor: Dr Joohyung Lee
Pelvic organ Prolapse (POP) is a debilitating urogynecological disorder arising from vaginal birth trauma that goes unrecognised, and culminates as a...
Supervisor: Dr Shayanti Mukherjee
This ARC funded project will decipher the mechanism(s) underpinning the rapid and extensive membrane remodelling in the Gram-negative bacteria...
Supervisor: Dr Meiling Han
Plasma cells produce antibodies so are important for protection from infections. We are interested in understanding the programming of their...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of many cancers, but this potentially effective treatment can also cause significant side-...
Supervisor: Dr Miles Andrews
Lung cancer patient's die from metastatic disease, not primary disease. In the case of small cell lung cancer the brain is a primary site of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Gough
Pattern recognition receptors, including Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and NOD-like receptors (NLRs), are key components of the innate immune response....
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
The World Mosquito Program (WMP; based at Monash University) has pioneered a novel biocontrol tool, Wolbachia, that controls the transmission of...
Supervisor: Dr. Johanna Fraser
The notion that non-genetic factors in oocytes (eggs) and sperm can alter development and postnatal health in offspring is gaining traction with our...
Supervisor: A/Prof Patrick Western
Gastric cancer kills ~1 million people worldwide each year and has an average 5-year survival rate of 19%. It is, therefore, a cancer of unmet need....
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
Osteosarcoma is the most prevalent primary malignant tumour of the bone, mainly affecting teenagers and young adults, particularly during growth...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain
Pasteurella multocida is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes a number of different diseases in cattle,
pigs and poultry, resulting in...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
Our laboratory has for the first time identified a new NOD-like receptor (NLR) protein in the regulation of inflammation in response to chronic...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
The mRNA therapeutics have emerged as a high potent new class of drug, revolutionizing disease treatments, such as therapeutic vaccines, monoclonal...
Supervisor: Nanoantibiotics - SHEN LAB
The ADNeT Registry a clinical quality registry (CQR) for people newly diagnosed with either dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The registry...
Supervisor: Dr Xiaoping Lin