Research Projects
Lower jaw (mandible) fractures are the most common fractures of the head in civilians and military
personnel, disproportionately affecting minority...
Supervisor: Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou
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
Wombats and koalas are the only survivors of an extensive radiation of mostly terrestrial vombatiforms dating back to the late Oligocene. Wombats and...
Supervisor: Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou
A number of universities run units or majors in the field of developmental biology, embryology or stem cells. Developmental biology encompasses and/...
Supervisor: Dr Sonja McKeown
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
Age-related olfactory sensory decay, including smell loss and defective odor-discrimination, during normal and pathological aging is a prominent...
Supervisor: Dr Jie Liu
During aging in human, joints, tendons and skin deteriorate both morphologically and functionally, resulting in a progressive physiological...
Supervisor: Dr Jie Liu
The epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal failure represents a crisis for health world-wide. Recent work indicates that CKD...
Supervisor: Professor Sharon Ricardo
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
Oligodendrocytes play a vital role as supporting cells within the central nervous system, aiding in signal transmission among a plethora of other...
Supervisor: Yasith Mathangasinghe
Advanced age is the strongest risk factor for cancer development, with 1 in 2 persons developing cancer by age 85. Despite being a strong predictor...
Supervisor: Dr Lochlan Fennell
The sheer mechanical power of shark jaws, combined with an increase in shark bites in Australia since the 2000s, have accelerated the need for the...
Supervisor: Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou
Background: Factors influencing the life-histories of a species are poorly understood and little is known about how ecology modulates the pace of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Luca Fiorenza
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 mammalian oocyte is the largest cell in the body and undergoes two highly specialised asymmetric meiotic cell divisions. Coordination of...
Supervisor: Professor John Carroll
Mountain gorillas currently live in two, discontinuous localities in east and central Africa: the Virunga Mountains and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest....
Supervisor: Dr Jason Massey