Research Projects
Background
Nuclear transport is central to eukaryotic cell processes such as signal transduction and differentiation, where changes in transcription...
Supervisor: Professor David Jans
Nuclear transport inhibitors to combat diseases
Two major health burdens world-wide are cancer and infectious diseases like viral illnesses and...
Supervisor: Professor David Jans
Bacteria are embroiled in a constant struggle with virulent bacteriophages. This battle for survival spans millions of years of evolution. Throughout...
Supervisor: Dr Gavin Knott
Primary liver cancer is one of the world’s deadliest cancers and the third most common cause of cancer death. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)...
Supervisor: Professor Tony Tiganis
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most fatal and fastest growing cancers. In recent years, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has been...
Supervisor: Professor Colby Zaph
Cubosomes have attracted widespread attention in the pharmaceutical industry due to their high stability, ability to contain amphiphilic drugs,...
Supervisor: Nanoantibiotics - SHEN LAB
Oligodendrocytes play a vital role as supporting cells within the central nervous system, aiding in signal transmission among a plethora of other...
Supervisor: Yasith Mathangasinghe
Advanced age is the strongest risk factor for cancer development, with 1 in 2 persons developing cancer by age 85. Despite being a strong predictor...
Supervisor: Dr Lochlan Fennell
Frequent resistance to single-agent treatment means that doctors are turning to combination therapy, i.e. ‘cocktails of drugs’, to beat resistance....
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
This project aims to engineer new biomaterials that can permanently integrate with the brain. This project expects
to generate new knowledge using...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar
Every ageing woman faces potentially debilitating physical symptoms following the cessation of ovarian function at menopause. Crucially, many of...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Walton
Gonadal-derived inhibin A and inhibin B are essential factors in mammalian reproduction, negatively regulating pituitary production of follicle...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Craig Harrison
This project aims to determine how antibiotic resistance and toxin plasmids are replicated and maintained in this important bacterial pathogen
Supervisor: Professor Julian Rood
Pleurotolysin: a pore forming toxin from the carnivorous oyster mushroom
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Michelle Dunstone
Protein-RNA interactions are integral to cellular biology – both in normal cellular function and also in cells subject to the stresses of viral...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jackie Wilce
Putting the brakes on inflammation: Using the structure of important immune protein receptors to develop therapeutics
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Michelle Dunstone
The sheer mechanical power of shark jaws, combined with an increase in shark bites in Australia since the 2000s, have accelerated the need for the...
Supervisor: Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou
Over the past years, our scientific and clinical research team has pursued basic discovery and preclinical research into the skin autoimmune disease...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
Background: Factors influencing the life-histories of a species are poorly understood and little is known about how ecology modulates the pace of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Luca Fiorenza
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) produced by Glutamic Acid Descarboxylase (GAD) is the most abundant neurotransmitter inhibitor in the CNS and is...
Supervisor: Professor James Whisstock