Research Projects
Although modern humans are now a global species, our ancestral lineage evolved for much of the past 7 million years in Africa. Understanding how and...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Justin Adams
Amyloid precursor protein (APP) plays key roles in apoptosis, synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis, learning, and memory, but its exact physiological...
Supervisor: Professor Zhi-Cheng Xiao
Uncertainty tolerance is a psychological construct describing how individuals manage and respond to uncertainty. Given the pervasiveness of...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
The incredible diversity of Australian mammals, including the remarkable radiation of marsupials, have been researched for over a century. Yet much...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Justin Adams
Background: Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are fibroblastic precursor cells that have the stem cell-like ability to differentiate into...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng
Background: Cell-based therapeutics have made advances in recent years. One of the most clinically studied products in regenerative medicine is...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tracy Heng
Obesity is an enormous health concern, both in Australia and worldwide. Our laboratory recently published a function for the ETS-5 transcription...
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock
Background:
Our group is involved in an Australia-wide program (www.kidgen.org.au) which aims to identify novel causative genes in patients with...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ian Smyth
Primates live in a striking variety of societies: mostly solitary orangutans, herds of hundreds of geladas, and nations with over a billion humans....
Supervisor: Dr Jason Massey
The Drimolen fossil site in South Africa has recently garnered international scientific attention and global news announcing the oldest fossil...
Supervisor: Dr Jason Massey
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
Gorillas live across a vast range of altitudes spanning from sea level to about 4,000m. This range places individual populations in very different...
Supervisor: Dr Jason Massey
Uncertainty tolerance is a psychological construct describing how individuals manage and respond to uncertainty. Given the pervasiveness of...
Supervisor: Dr Michelle Lazarus
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
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
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 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
This project ewill fucntionally analyse novel genes found to be expressed in embryonic chicken gonads.
Methods include standard and cutting edge...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Craig Smith
This exciting project will use genetic techniques to identify mechanisms that control brain development in the Caenorhabditis elegans model. The C....
Supervisor: Professor Roger Pocock