Research Projects
Studies in the Ryan lab involve understanding how protein complexes are built and how mutations in proteins cause defects in assembly. Our models are...
Supervisor: Professor Mike Ryan
A cardinal feature of adaptive CD8+ T cell (also known as killer T cells) responses to infection is the rapid initiation of a proliferative response...
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Turner
This project aims to determine the molecular structure of the interface between novel peptide self-assemblies and
cell membranes through x-ray...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar
Bacteria secrete vesicles that traffic toxins to mitochondria of macrophages. This project will investigate how vesicle-delivered toxins kill...
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Naderer
The neural pathways that mediate appetite control many other functions, including mood, motivation, memory, attention and arousal, suppression of...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Lockie
Binocular rivalry refers to the perceptual alternation that occurs every few seconds when conflicting visual stimuli are presented, one to each eye....
Supervisor: Dr Steven Miller
Single-cell analyses are at the leading edge of technological development for cell biology. And, transcriptomics analyses at single-cell resolution...
Supervisor: A/Prof Traude Beilharz
Background: Cell-based therapeutics have made advances in recent years. One of the most clinically studied products in regenerative medicine is...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng
Obesity is an enormous health concern, both in Australia and worldwide. Our laboratory recently published a function for the ETS-5 transcription...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
Organic bioelectronics studies the development of devices that translate an electrical signal into a physiological response from cells, tissues or...
Supervisor: Dr Mark Del Borgo
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterised by extreme self-control, partly generated by exaggerated prefrontal cortex activity, which leads to inflexible...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi
Transitive inference is a fundamental cognitive function and the basis of deductive reasoning that allows one to derive a relation between objects/...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
Central neural circuits subserving nutrient–activated thermogenesis - the basis of post prandial energy expenditure
The ability to treat overweight...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Oldfield
Proteins containing a PHIST (Plasmodium helical interspersed sub-telomeric) domain constitute a multi- member family that are present in the most...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
The mechanisms by which Babesia bovis causes severe disease in susceptible cattle are not well understood, however, it is clear that alterations to...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Acinetobacter baumannii has been identified as one of the top three dangerous Gram-negative hospital pathogens as it can cause a range of life-...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
Our research program is focused on fibroblast-like stromal cells found in secondary lymphoid organs and tumours. These cells create the structure on...
Supervisor: Dr Anne Fletcher
This project will investigate the machinery involved in mitochondrial fission and fusion and the relationship between mitochondrial dynamics and...
Supervisor: Professor Mike Ryan
Background:
Our group is involved in an Australia-wide program (www.kidgen.org.au) which aims to identify novel causative genes in patients with...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ian Smyth
Characterising novel virulence mechanisms in the emerging hospital-acquired pathogen;
Acinetobacter baumannii
(A/Professor John Boyce, Dr Faye...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce