Research Projects
Non-ribosomal peptide synthesis is a complex biosynthetic process that produces many medically important peptide natural products, including several...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Max Cryle
Paediatric chronic pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as persistent or recurring pain that lasts for longer than...
Supervisor: Professor Richelle Mychasiuk
We are developing a cohort of children who have lost skills and developed autism, sometimes called autistic regression. Using video footage prior to...
Supervisor: Professor Katrina Williams
Plasmalogens are a unique class of lipids that are abundant in certain tissues such as the heart, brain and specific immune cell types. Studies have...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Meikle
FIKK kinases are unique among apicomplexan parasites. Interestingly the genome of P. falciparum encodes 20 FIKK kinases, but very little is known...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Striated muscles including skeletal and cardiac muscle makes up a major proportion of our body mass. Because of their high metabolic activity,...
Supervisor: A/Prof Brian Drew
Clostridium difficile is recognised as the major cause of nosocomial diarrhoea in Australian hospitals and in hospitals worldwide. Chronic colitis...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
Historically, it is well documented that infections during pregnancy increase the risk for atypical neurodevelopment in offspring such as...
Supervisor: A/Prof Rachel Hill
This partnership project with industry seeks to develop a body of work to understand the impact of footwear on young children's feet, movement...
Supervisor: Professor Cylie Williams
In Australia, waterborne communicable diseases (CD) is a recognised health concern for individuals living in remote and indigenous communities, where...
Supervisor: Dr Rebekah Henry
This is a sub study within a larger NHMRC funded data linkage project. The aim of the sub study will be to utilise population data to understand the...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Nadine Andrew
The Department of Diabetes at the School of Translational Medicine (STM) is a part of Monash University’s Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Melinda Coughlan
Kidney stones are a common urinary tract problem. They can cause obstructions in the urinary system and are a significant risk factor for the...
Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Starkey
Background:
Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is the most common potentially lethal Mendelian disease, affecting around 1/1000 people. It arises when...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ian Smyth
Objective: the onset of AN in women, appears to have major peaks at times of significant hormonal changes, namely the onset of menses and menopause....
Supervisor: Dr. Eva Cecilie Gregertsen
Antibiotics are a precious and diminishing resource. There is a desperate need to reduce or replace the use of antibiotics to treat bacterial...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
Excessive inflammation, cell death and immunopathology are characteristic features of fatal viral infections of the lung. Experts predict another...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
One of the major areas of interest in our laboratory is the importance of chemokines and their receptors in the regulation of immune responses and...
Supervisor: Dr Remy Robert
Throughout life exposure to a vast array of pathogens shapes our immune system to establish a repertoire of specific memory T cells that can be...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Mifsud
Asthma affects approximately one in nine Australians and is one of the most common conditions treated in General Practice. In May 2023 a group of...
Supervisor: Dr Chris Barton