Research Projects
Chronic infectious diseases have a devastating effect on global health. HIV and Plasmodium falciparum both cause chronic disease and have evaded...
Supervisor: Dr Kim Jacobson
Circadian clocks generate daily rhythms to enhance the fitness of virtually all living organisms. Disruption of these rhythms has been implicated in...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Andrew Ellisdon
RESEARCH PROJECT BACKGROUND:
The endocrine system controls cell-cell communication and coordinates almost all our daily activities. Abnormalities in...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Timothy Cole
Enhancing biochemical approaches to enable novel membrane protein structure determination by cryo-EM
MULTIPLE SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE
4-year Doctoral Program; Stipends: $33,413/year; Conference support: $5,000; Industry placement; Advanced...
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Sexton
Vaccines exploit the ability of the immune system to provide heightened, tailored responses to pathogens if the host has been infected prior – this...
Supervisor: Dr Kim Jacobson
We wish to understand the detailed molecular events that underlie the recruitment and regulation of chromatin-modifying complexes by their co‐factor...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Chen Davidovich
We are interested in delineating the molecular pathways that control immune cell function during infection and inflammation. Our group is focused on...
Supervisor: Professor Colby Zaph
Uncertainty tolerance is a psychological construct describing how individuals manage and respond to uncertainty. Given the pervasiveness of...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
Preliminary data from the Nguyen-Daly lab has identified Fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) as promising therapeutic targets for triple-...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Metabolite based T cell immunity is emerging as a major player in antimicrobial immunity, autoimmunity, metabolic diseases, and cancer. Namely,...
Supervisor: Dr Wael Awad
Standard cytotoxic cancer therapy often causes the death of the oocytes in primordial follicles, predisposing women to infertility and premature...
Supervisor: Dr Karla Hutt
Future healthcare providers treat a wide variety of patients who vary in gender, skin tone, body habitus, socio-economic status etc. Despite this,...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
Polysaccharide capsule is a critical virulence factor in many bacteria, including the priority drug-resistant pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. The...
Supervisor: Dr Francesca Short
The gastric carcinogenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori has a unique ability to withstand high acidity of the stomach by buffering its periplasm at pH...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Female fertility and offspring health are critically dependent on the maintenance of an adequate supply of high quality oocytes. Little is known...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Stringer
Exosomes are small vesicles (50-150 nm in size) secreted by most cell types and are involved in cell - cell communication and regulation of immune...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
In several cancer types, a higher tumour mutational burden (TMB) has been associated with increased immune cell infiltration into tumours and better...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
The discovery of giant viruses, comparable in size and complexity to simple cellular organisms has pushed back the frontier of the virus world....
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Fasseli Coulibaly
Sharks are essential top predators in marine ecosystems that are ecologically, economically, and culturally important. Their predatory success relies...
Supervisor: Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou
Background:
Size and shape variation of molar crowns in humans play an important role for testing phylogenetic hypotheses and for better...
Supervisor: A/Prof Luca Fiorenza