Research Projects
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
Lower jaw (mandible) fractures are the most common fractures of the head in civilians and military
personnel, disproportionately affecting minority...
Supervisor: Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou
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
Brain cancers are notoriously aggressive, and current treatments are often ineffective at preventing disease progression. This research project...
Supervisor: Dr Iman Azimi
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
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
The food intake of the mother during gestation and the breastfeeding period has far-reaching consequences for the development of the child and their...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
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
People with underlying non-communicable disease have lower tolerance and worse outcomes to infections but we don't understand why. To begin to...
Supervisor: Dr Adam Rose
Tumours are a highly heterogeneous mix of multiple cellular subpopulations, each with their own unique molecular and biological properties. Studying...
Supervisor: Dr Renea Taylor
Studies in T cell mediated immunity have focused on understanding the presentation of peptides by the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC), and...
Supervisor: Dr Jerome Le Nours