Research Projects
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
Phosphorylation events on amino acids other than serine, threonine and tyrosine are believed to play an important role in cancer cell biology. We...
Supervisor: Dr Ralf Schittenhelm
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
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 Amy Winship
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
The Hippo/YAP signalling pathway is frequently dysregulated (~80%) in breast cancer. Yet, efforts aimed at targeting this pathway for therapeutic...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Diversity is one of the most highly evaluated value in our workplace to maximize its performance. Diversity in neural cells (neurons) may be...
Supervisor: Dr Tatsuo Sato
Anti-mullerian Hormone (AMH) or Mullerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS) is fundamentally known for its crucial activities in gonadal development during...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Walton
The treatment of bacterial infections in humans and animals has largely relied on the use of antibiotics for over 70 years. One consequence of the...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
The control of stem cell division and differentiation is crucial to ensure correct development of an embryo and to maintain tissue homeostasis during...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock