Research Projects
Despite current diabetes management, patients with glucose-lowering therapies often deal with hypoglycemia, a condition with abnormally low blood...
Supervisor: Dr Romana Stark
To be able to stave off infections and cancers throughout life, our immune systems first need to recognise and tolerate the ~200 different cell types...
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Daley
Cancer cells can acquire stromal or developmental-like phenotypes allowing them to masquerade as other cell types, making the challenge of...
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
Everyday we're faced with a multitude of choices - some big, some small. We look at the information available to us, and make a decision. How is...
Supervisor: Dr Maureen Hagan
Recent technological advances in micro and nano-fabrication technology and high-yield electrophysiology techniques allowed us to record the activity...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi
The adaptive arm of immune system uses lymphocytes to generate antibody and memory responses to challenges throughout life. Three lineages of...
Supervisor: Dr Martin Davey
The adaptive arm of immune system uses lymphocytes to generate antibody and memory responses to challenges throughout life. Three lineages of...
Supervisor: Dr Martin Davey
Currently, there are no clinically approved antiviral drugs that are highly effective against coronaviruses. Our understanding of the molecular-...
Supervisor: Dr Nadinath Nillegoda
Shortly following invasion, Babesia bovis induces the formation of unique structures on the RBC surface, which we have termed ‘ridges’. Importantly,...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Infection triggers large-scale changes in the phenotype and function of killer T cells that are critical for immune function, yet the gene regulatory...
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Turner
Stroke is a debilitating disease that can cause permanent neurological damage, complications, and death. At present, there are very few treatment...
Supervisor: Dr Bradley Broughton
Aim 1:
Identify the impact of the anatomic handover on Australian medical student’s perception of anatomy?
Aim 2:
How do anatomy conversions of...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
The mammalian oocyte is the largest cell in the body and undergoes two highly specialised asymmetric meiotic cell divisions. Coordination of...
Supervisor: Professor John Carroll
Background: Approximately 10% of infants worldwide are born preterm (before 37 completed weeks of gestation), at a time when their kidneys are still...
Supervisor: Professor Mary Black
A major neglected environmental issue is contamination from synthetic chemicals. These chemicals encompass a vast and rapidly growing number of...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Stringer
Current life science studies benefit from impressive imaging capabilities, but full realisation of their potential is often hindered by the...
Supervisor: Dr Alberto Rosello Diez
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
"In Vivo Biosensing" is an emerging field in which disease-related biomarkers (including ions, metabolites and proteins) are monitored in a...
Supervisor: Dr Sheena McGowan
Here we will investigate the role of the balance of the three primary macronutrients, namely protein, carbohydrate and fat, on development and late...
Supervisor: Dr Adam Rose
The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is one of the most important hormonal systems regulating both acute and chronic blood pressure. The main effector...
Supervisor: Professor Robert Widdop