Research Projects
Pleurotolysin: a pore forming toxin from the carnivorous oyster mushroom
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Michelle Dunstone
The PI3K-Akt-mTOR signalling network plays a pivotal role in the regulation of cell growth and proliferation, and is highly complex with multiple...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
Excess body weight is a major and leading factor in overall disease burden worldwide and if left unabated could lead to falls in overall life...
Supervisor: Professor Tony Tiganis
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
Cancer therapy and oncology has entered a new exciting era of targeted therapy and personalised patient treatment, but resistance and tumour...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
When someone develops acute kidney injury, clinical care is directed towards supporting them to allow their kidneys to repair. Sometimes this is not...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Evans
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
Natural killer (NK) cells are the founding members of the innate lymphoid cell family and contribute to the rapid production of inflammatory...
Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Huntington
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
The Bcl-2 family of proteins is crucial for apoptosis (a form of programmed cell death) regulation. The Bcl-2 proteins are synthesized in cytosolic...
Supervisor: Professor Mibel Aguilar
Hypertension and its associated complications affect men and women during different stages of their lives. Our research is focusing on what controls...
Supervisor: Dr Katrina Colafella
Inflammation is the body’s response to injury or infection. A key feature of inflamed tissues is the accumulation of leukocytes (white blood cells),...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Martin Stone
The Combes laboratory has opportunities for postgraduate research projects in the fields of bioinformatics/single cell genomics, developmental...
Supervisor: Dr Alex Combes
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus continues to increase worldwide leading to premature mortality. About 30% of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D)...
Supervisor: Professor Sharon Ricardo
Eukaryotic transcriptional co-activators are multi-subunit complexes that both modify chromatin and recognize histone modifications to control gene...
Supervisor: Dr Dominika Elmlund
The majority of cancer deaths are attributed to metastases rather than the primary tumour. Therefore, the development of new therapeutics targeting...
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ellisdon
The immune system comprises a variety of effector cells that are uniquely poised to recognize infected or transformed cells. However, the capacity of...
Supervisor: Dr Richard Berry
The majority of cancer deaths are attributed to metastases rather than the primary tumour. Therefore, the development of new therapeutics targeting...
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Ellisdon
Viruses and pathogens are part of day-to-day encounters that the immune system needs to deal with. How the immune system “sees”, recognises and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Stephanie Gras
SAGA’s many functions are essential for normal embryo development in flies and mice. Mutation or altered expression of SAGA subunits are associated...
Supervisor: Dr Hans Elmlund