Research Projects
This ARC funded project will decipher the mechanism(s) underpinning the rapid and extensive membrane remodelling in the Gram-negative bacteria...
Supervisor: Dr Meiling Han
Plasma cells produce antibodies so are important for protection from infections. We are interested in understanding the programming of their...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of many cancers, but this potentially effective treatment can also cause significant side-...
Supervisor: Dr Miles Andrews
Lung cancer patient's die from metastatic disease, not primary disease. In the case of small cell lung cancer the brain is a primary site of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Gough
Pattern recognition receptors, including Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and NOD-like receptors (NLRs), are key components of the innate immune response....
Supervisor: Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
The World Mosquito Program (WMP; based at Monash University) has pioneered a novel biocontrol tool, Wolbachia, that controls the transmission of...
Supervisor: Dr. Johanna Fraser
The notion that non-genetic factors in oocytes (eggs) and sperm can alter development and postnatal health in offspring is gaining traction with our...
Supervisor: A/Prof Patrick Western
Gastric cancer kills ~1 million people worldwide each year and has an average 5-year survival rate of 19%. It is, therefore, a cancer of unmet need....
Supervisor: Dr Dustin Flanagan
Osteosarcoma is the most prevalent primary malignant tumour of the bone, mainly affecting teenagers and young adults, particularly during growth...
Supervisor: A/Prof Jason Cain
Pasteurella multocida is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes a number of different diseases in cattle,
pigs and poultry, resulting in...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
Our laboratory has for the first time identified a new NOD-like receptor (NLR) protein in the regulation of inflammation in response to chronic...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
The mRNA therapeutics have emerged as a high potent new class of drug, revolutionizing disease treatments, such as therapeutic vaccines, monoclonal...
Supervisor: Nanoantibiotics - SHEN LAB
The ADNeT Registry a clinical quality registry (CQR) for people newly diagnosed with either dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The registry...
Supervisor: Dr Xiaoping Lin
Through leveraging extensive longitudinal data and biospecimens already obtained from a large representative cohort of older Australians, this...
Supervisor: A/Prof. Joanne Ryan
Antibiotic-resistance is a major problem in hospitals and different community settings. Dendritic cells are sentinel cells of the innate immune...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Meredith O'Keeffe
The contraceptive pill has been linked to depressive mood. It has been hypothesised that the progesterone components of the pill are likely to drive...
Supervisor: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni
There are over 7,000 rare diseases that on average take ~4 years to diagnose, during which families consult on average 5 doctors and receive 3...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
Designing, analysing and interpreting evidence from interrupted time series studies in public health
The interrupted time series (ITS) study design is frequently used to evaluate the effects of policy and health systems interventions, providing...
Supervisor: Dr Joanne McKenzie
The SOS is a multinational, prospective longitudinal cohort study designed to comprehensively examine the interplay between determinants of long-term...
Supervisor: Doctor Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake
There is a well defined difference between a novice and an expert in surgical training and simulation-based educational programmes and research....
Supervisor: A/Professor Ram Nataraja