Research Projects
The eukaryotic genome consists of two classes of genes preceded by distinctly different promoter sequences. Housekeeping genes (90%) code for...
Supervisor: Dr Dominika Elmlund
Preterm birth is a public health concern, and it has been listed as one of the focuses under the Good Health and Well-Being of The Sustainable...
Supervisor: Dr Jodi Law Woan-Fei
The healthy intestine maintains a homeostatic equilibrium between epithelial integrity, a resident immune system and a symbiotic microbiome....
Supervisor: Dr Edward Giles
Helicobacter pylori persistently colonize the epithelium of the stomach in roughly half of the world’s population. It is a causative agent of...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anna Roujeinikova
Hospital in the home (HITH) services allow patients to return to their home environment where they can continue receiving hospital-level care with...
Supervisor: A/Prof. Ben Rogers
Autoimmune kidney diseases, particularly lupus nephritis and ANCA associated vasculitis are associated with low expression of DNase I a critical...
Supervisor: Dr Kim O'Sullivan
The burgeoning pandemic of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacterial pathogens poses a major threat to global health. In Australia alone, 6.5 deaths...
Supervisor: Dr Jane Hawkey
The LCT-producing clostridia are an important group of pathogens that cause severe disease in both humans and animals. In most cases the diseases...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
Global Market Insights estimates the mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) market size to grow from USD 3 billion in 2022 to USD 10.3 billion by 2032 due to...
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing infection and severe disease from SARS-CoV-2. Although vaccination elicits neutralising...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Gill
Unplanned hospital transfers are defined as unexpected visits to an acute care setting, resulting in an emergency department (ED) visit or hospital...
Supervisor: Raphaëlle Ashley Guerbaai
A cardinal feature of adaptive CD8+ T cell (also known as killer T cells) responses to infection is the rapid initiation of a proliferative response...
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Turner
Bacteria secrete vesicles that traffic toxins to mitochondria of macrophages. This project will investigate how vesicle-delivered toxins kill...
Supervisor: Dr Thomas Naderer
Bats are a major reservoir of viruses such as Hendra virus, Ebola virus, and coronaviruses that are pathogenic in humans but not in bats. The reason...
Supervisor: Professor Gilda Tachedjian
For cells to function and therefore life to exist, proteins have to be processed and their constituents recycled or destroyed. The Proteasome is the...
Supervisor: A/Prof Vivek Naranbhai
We propose pioneering studies to prevent the consequences of infection-related exacerbations of
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that...
Supervisor: Professor Philip Bardin
Acinetobacter baumannii has been identified as one of the top three dangerous Gram-negative hospital pathogens as it can cause a range of life-...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
The release of extracellular vesicles (EVs) is a property that has been conserved by both multi- and unicellular organisms during evolution. One of...
Supervisor: Professor Richard Ferrero
Endometriosis is a chronic disorder that has a major impact on quality of life. Despite its high prevalence, there is a lack of understanding of its...
Supervisor: Adjunct Prof Caroline Gargett
Characterising novel virulence mechanisms in the emerging hospital-acquired pathogen;
Acinetobacter baumannii
(A/Professor John Boyce, Dr Faye...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce